Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps

Related WikiProjects

The parent of this WikiProject is the Geography WikiProject. WikiProject Maps also is a management type WikiProject for pictorial representations displayed within Wikipedia. The following illustrates the position of WikiProject Maps within the Wikipedia WikiProject lineage:

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Wikipedia maintenance WikiProject Graphics Creation/improvement of pictorial representations displayed within Wikipedia WikiProject Photography - Create and improve photographs WikiProject Panorama Welding - stitching photos together to create a panorama Photo Matching Service Requested pictures WikiProject Maps - Create geographical maps WikiProject OpenStreetMap - Create maps using data from OpenStreetMap WikiProject Geographical coordinates - Create map coordinates WikiProject Indian maps - Create maps for India-related articles WikiProject Mathematics/Graphics - Create graphics for math-related articles Graphic Lab - Improve graphical content stored on Commons and Wikipedia WikiProject Illustration - Create and improve illustrations Philip Greenspun illustration project. Create and improve illustrations on Wikimedia Acquisition of pictorial representations displayed within Wikipedia WikiProject Free book covers - Acquire covers about books in the public domain Distribution of pictorial representations displayed within Wikipedia WikiProject Animated Wikipedia - Distribute Wikipedia stored animated video in Wikipedia WikiProject Free images - Distribute Wikipedia stored free images in Wikipedia. WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons - Move Wikipedia stored free images to Commons. Commons:WikiProject Atlas - Organize maps included in commons as an atlas Monitoring of pictorial representations displayed within Wikipedia WikiProject Graphics monitoring WikiProjects that have made use of geographical maps include: Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Counties Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. States Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life and its subprojects (distribution maps for animals/plants/etc)

Conventions for visa policy maps

Hello, WP:MAPS. I am currently working on the visa policy of Nauru, and I was wondering if there was any conventions on the colors would be? It seems like the other visa policy articles have a lot of different colors, and I just wanted to be correct. Thanks in advance.

Shetland islands

just dropping a quick note here as I was asked to look at this Talk:Shetland#Need_better_map_image - looks like it ought to get a combination of File:Wfm_shetland_map.png and File:Shetland_UK_location_map.svg

Request for comments on Mediawiki

See mw:Maps/Conversation about interactive map use--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:47, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016

An interesting point has been made on the talk page of that article about the use of red and green shades on the results map, given the numbers of people red-green colour blindness. Editors with experience of map design may wish to be involved in the discussion - recognising that the usual red-blue-yellow etc. colours are conventionally used for existing political parties in the UK, and the referendum crosses party boundaries so should use different colours if at all possible. Ghmyrtle (talk) 07:50, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Forgotten states in the Italian maps

See Talk:Italian_Wars#Maps.--Nickanc (talk) 23:10, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Help with D.C. map

Any chance I could get some help with File:Location map Washington, D.C. central.svg? The roads look kind of fat when it's used in the infobox (compared with, say, File:Location map Washington, D.C. central.png). I'd actually love an infobox map that focused more on the National Mall—I imagine the context of the locations on the Mall matters much more for spacial orientation than its relation to Chinatown, but what do you think? czar 01:11, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Please {{ping}} me if you can assist—I'm unwatching this page  czar 14:11, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Location map giving errors when used in an infobox

Hi

When I use in a Location map (as outlined in the Coordinate-referenced map templates section) in an infobox I get random bits on wikicode at the top of the infobox [[File: |260px|]], is there any way to fix this?

Thanks

--John Cummings (talk) 21:31, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

I'm thinking you've sorted the problem, John? --Tagishsimon (talk) 04:15, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

the history of cartography free online

quick quote from the article here

The University of Chicago Press has made available online — at no cost — the first three volumes of The History of Cartography. Or what Edward Rothstein, of The New York Times, called “the most ambitious overview of map making ever undertaken.”

sounds good, not had a chance to investigate yet EdwardLane (talk) 07:58, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Category:Google Street View

Serious question: what's the rationale behind this category of articles? All they are are effectively lists of software updates, and they're all out of date. MSJapan (talk) 00:38, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

WikiConference North America 2016

Those attending WikiConference North America this year may be interested in a talk I've proposed discussing OpenStreetMap: "Be bold and edit the map". I'm looking forward to hopefully meeting some of the folks behind this WikiProject at WikiConference. (I'm hoping to attend regardless of whether my talk is accepted, but that's up to logistics at this point.) – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 15:29, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

I won't be at the conference, but I share your interest in OSM (with an emphasis on off-road paths and navigation). If you publish slides, notes, or the talk itself, I'd be interested. Barte (talk) 16:13, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

Israel

Where does one go to get informed neutral input for the discussion at Israel, where it is proposed to put territories annexed or controlled by Israel within the map of that country, though neither the annexations nor the control of the territories to be included has any legitimacy in international law or recognition?Nishidani (talk) 19:26, 19 September 2016 (UTC)