User talk:Planemad

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User talk:Planemad/Archive 5 September 2008 - November 2010

national highways map

just saw your indian national highway map. fantastic! this is just to let you know people appreciate your effort. -- mowglee 05:52, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi and Thanks

Hi Arun, Thank you for the map of the Mumbai Rail network. I am working on developing Android apps and used your image quite a bit to see how my data points map.

Take care and keep up the awesome work.

BZ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.195.175.248 (talk) 03:32, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

literacy map

Hi, i see you are not very active. i noticed that you have made this excellent map for 2001 literacy rate. thought i would let you know that it would be great to have it updated. regards. --CarTick (talk) 02:28, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Map for Tiruchirappalli

Hi! How are you? Is it possible for you to create a locator map for Tiruchirappalli like this Chennai locator map which you created?-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 12:12, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

District locator maps of Maharashtra

Hey Arun, I want to create district-level locator maps, particularly to locate tehsil places and villages, of Maharashtra from the blank maharashtra locator map. Can you give a brief instruction manual of help on how to do it (for beginners)? I may help to create other maps to if I can learn how to do it properly! Thanks! Shivashree (talk) 09:28, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Invite to WikiConference India 2011

Hi Planemad, The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011. You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form. But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach. As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions. We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011

WCI 2011

Call for participation is now open, please submit your entries here. (last date for submission is 30 August 2011) --04:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

File:India Kerala locator map.svg

Please change the map of india which is posted in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala Are you an indian?? Don't craete this kind of picture. Refer political map of India. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.100.194.229 (talk) 14:34, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Check the Indian map

Where is the other part of Kashmir? If you dont know, dont post this kind of MAP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:India_Kerala_locator_map.svg#filehistory — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.100.194.229 (talk) 14:41, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Please refer to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:India_Kerala_locator_map.svg#Notes -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 05:32, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop#Indian_states_and_territories_SVG_map_refactoring_and_clickability

Hi, Arun. Hope you are doing fine off WP, but are able to check in here soon.

• Could you take a look at this? It is Nichalp's old states map. There's a note on the file page saying the code is corrupted. Can it be fixed? Or do you have a (most likely) better replacement? It is making editing programs crash upon loading apparently.
• BTW, I saw your new stuff on commons and was impressed. Top work even by your previously high standards.
• I added the rail/pop density map to India, but it is png. Are you not able to release the svg due to fears that it'll be stolen without attribution? I think I read about that happening before on your blog ... sad. Saravask 02:42, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Great to hear you are almost done with NID! Also can't wait for your new maps.

• After you release your series, I'm going to try to recreate from it {{Australia states imagemap}} for the India page. Wereldburger758 (talk · contribs) just pointed out a tool to pull out the border coords for svgs, which are then used to draw the clickable polygon domains. A clickable map is a *much* cooler way to navigate around India on WP: you see the imagemap on the "India" page, then you can click on any state/UT or even capitals and other main cities. Also mountains, seas, neighbours ... It is just less tedious for users. Also, there may be a way to cut a series down to just one map: to make the district coords stored on WP into opaque polygons whose shading is toggled by the pagename, so that only one map with static background details--oceans, neighbouring counties--would be needed. The state or district blobs would then be dynamically bordered and rendered via MediaWiki. If this is possible, I'm wondering if you can help by adapting (if needed) the series to at least accept superimposed labels like those on the Aus imagemap--that is, labels are easy to see on the background features, etc.
• Also, to me Nichalp's map has always seemed somewhat garish and non-professional looking compared to the Aus one above. Not saying the "CIA Factbook" look is required, but maybe more subdued/subtle is better. And the orthographic projection is nice, which I noticed featured in your maps for Dinesh's KN history FAs.
• Of course for Nichalp's one svg map, it would have been easy (for even me) to redo the element colours in Inkscape/Illustrator (were the source valid), but a png series is impossible for non-experts without access to source. And it may remain the best IN series on WP for years, until they start implementing here dynamic, database-driven map interfaces (or make use of that Google Maps API) in some cool new way. Static maps would be replaced. Zooming, street views, even VR, may come to WP pages at last.
• A while back I learned that the Indian infobox was deleted at TFD by some lightly talented and unaesthetic busybody twerp with a suitably dirty, cluttered, and fugly userpage (which says everything I need to know about his (all too common nowadays) mental state and attendant (lack of) taste, in infoboxes or whatnot) sometime during the several years when I was hardly on WP. Yet it is still here, it seems (from what I just read) because they need to replicate the inset and other features. So your maps will likely be appearing in {{Infobox Settlement}}, but not yet, LOL. Alas. It is IMO so revoltingly ugly, user-unfriendly, and rebarbatively convoluted even compared to so-so IIJ. I'd be *much* happier if your maps were used in the IMO clean and peerless {{Infobox Australian place}}, and the IN city pages were migrated to it or a fork of it, with appropriate changes. Yet it likely wouldn't happen even if I wasted my time proposing it. Just another example of the modern trend: exaltation of the vile, mediocre, and ugly, and denigration of what is truly excellent--architecturally, culturally, intellectually. But whatever. RL calls.
• I'm also curious about your impressions about Bangalore public transit and their organisation. I was there for quite a while staying with relatives. Also spent a few months in Hyderabad and Vizag. I know you had big gripes with the lack of information regarding the Chennai system. Do you think this is the general condition in India? Where officials despise German- or Singaporean-style planning, documentation, and mapping? Or is it just Chennai? Are there any cities/regions in India (I'm thinking Modi's Gujarat maybe) that are doing things well in terms of maps/planning/documentation?
• Again, as for your series, since you are doing all the mapwork, and I haven't even seen them, these design things are of course 100% your prerogative. Won't be complaining. Just sharing my novice opinions, and trust 100% your judgement.

Good luck with your remaining work; hope that vacation will be nice reward. Saravask 14:35, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

• Well now people can go to Google Earth, toggle "Wikipedia" on, then see those icons geodistributed, with first paras viewable on click. Not to mention, as you know, its toggled road/features/etc. overlays. But this all has to be done by the user outside of WP. I (and I think you) are thinking that WP users should be able to do something similar to that on the Tamil Nadu page: see an infobox map that has a default state map. They can click a district and, say, be taken to its page. Or they can toggle view of clickable rails/roads/rivers. Or they can enlarge view of the district to fill the whole map, then toggle cities/etc. Or pop density shadings, rainfall, metro routes, etc. All the relevant data would of course be pulled from somewhere on-wiki.
• A Google/WP "Summer of Code" project by Jeroen_De_Dauw dealt with maps driven by the Semantic MediaWiki extension. Looks like that could do what you envision: that Semantic extension would (guessingly) allow storage of district/rail/highway path data on-wiki, which users would then toggle the display of. Some other wikis use it. Not sure if/when WP is going to start supporting it. Also not sure if it can store svg-type elements rather than merely simple coords. Sadly none of the more recent projects deal with map stuff. Maybe GaneshK can help point out other ways to do what you're asking for. Saravask 02:03, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

[DI] GeoJSON? Interesting.

• According to this comment, Nichalp's map code is invalid due to the font it uses. I think you mentioned that any new svgs you might release would also have this issue. Could it be the font as well?
• You probably know then that Inkscape is very good (compared with Illustrator) with programmatic image creation--use Python scripts to read-in geodata and automatically issue the editing commands via the API. Provided you have your GIS and other data sets sorted and ready to go, batch-creating layers should be straightforward (if not exactly trivial). I have no experience with image processing stuff yet. Maybe you do?
• Once you got the layers, like you said, you can layer them as if they were infobox pogs. Just have no idea about your controls--maybe it can't be done in MediaWiki templates per se, but needs a special-purpose widget? I'm at least as ignorant as you about it. If I think of something (probably not), I'll ping you first.

Again, hope you make it to your vacation--alive! Saravask 22:57, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, tutorial? I have worked in Python, but I've never used the Inkscape API, let alone process GIS formats (whether GeoJSON or any others). I'm just passing on second-hand info I heard in CS classes/labs and stuff I read online a while ago--when I was considering the usefulness of CS5 Master--about the relative ease of automating the creation of non-GIS vector images, which was a big concern of mine (and still is) for a possible future coding project. So I haven't read any tutorials yet. Sorry. But maybe there are Wikimedians with actual experience at the computing helpdesk who can verify that what I (as a non-expert) claimed above will actually work for GIS files. Saravask 02:29, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikimedia Stories Project

Hello,

My name is Victor Grigas, and I'm a storyteller at the Wikimedia foundation. We're telling stories of Wikipedia users, editors, donors, programmers and staff to paint a picture of who uses Wikipedia - for the 2011 fundraiser.

I am in the process of planning a trip to India to gather stories from Indian Wikipedians in face-to-face interviews (possibly on video).

My primary goal is to conduct 15-20 interviews, and hopefully enough of my interviews will make compelling stories that will effectively solicit donations from the public. These stories may also be used for other communication purposes by the foundation.

I found your userpage on a list of prolific Wikipedians and thought I’d reach out to you. Prolific editing is always a good story to tell!

If you are interested in participating, please contact me via my email:

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Thank you for your time!

Victor

About me: I have been a Wikipedia editor since 2005, and have a background in film, video and audio. My userpage can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

Noteworthy Wikimedian Recognition 2011

		The Indian Barnstar of National Merit
		This user has been nominated by the community of Indian editors for recognition as a Noteworthy Wikimedian at WikiConference India 2011. AshLin (talk) 14:08, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Request for the vector map

hello sir,

i m a final year student of architecture doing my reserch on thesis in the city jaipur,india. I WAS LOOKING FOR SOME VECTOR MAPS OF THE CITY [SPLZ THE OLD CITY AREA] FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACADEMICS OF THESIS..

ITS A REQUEST TO U IF U CAN SOME HOW MANAGE TO PROVIDE EM WITH ONE OR HELP ME REGARDING THE SAME

WOULD E REALLY THANKFULL TO U ...

TANUJ JAIN tanuj.1405.tj@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.170.126.130 (talk) 10:20, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Request for a new map

Sir you have done a wonderful job in making haryana map. your map is used in almost all the haryana articles. I was editing some articles related to Yamuna Nagar. If you could provide us with a separate map of Yamuna Nagar it would be highly appreciated

Regarding your Public Transport Map for Chennai

Hi PlaneMad I stumbled upon your comments when I was searching for information on Chennai Bus Routes. You wrote around 2 years ago about how you were working on this Map. How did it go? Is it over? Cuz right now I am in a mess and Im sure your project will help me from getting lost in Chennai. Do reply. Looking forward to see your work.

Regards, Suzanne Vandana. Suzanne Vandana (talk) 09:01, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so much Arun :) I would be happy if you could also do a map of sorts on the share auto routes too. I don't find much info about them in the net. :( — Preceding unsigned comment added by Suzanne Vandana (talk • contribs) 09:31, 12 January 2012 (UTC)