User talk:Haus

Haus is back at sea, with Internet access limited to the order of minutes per month. He expects to be back at Wikipedia in something like -69 days.

Navigational stars

Ooops, I just saw the notice that you will be going out to sea tomorrow and will be gone for 99 days. Good luck on your voyage! In light of that I am sure this is now somewhat less important, but I just finished adding the "Meaning of name" column as you had suggested in Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Navigational stars and was wondering:

• if you still plan to upload the 2 star charts before you depart (or if you would want me to scan and upload them)
• if there are any more changes you think we should make to Navigational stars or whether you'd consider casing a Support vote on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Navigational stars if there are none

Thanks, and good luck again! May you encounter fair weather and calm seas. Alexander Falk (talk) 15:54, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Alexander. I think I'll be able to upload the SVG version of the northern stars this afternoon— at this point, I'm just double checking everything. I was thinking about encouraging you to get a copy of GIMP Inkscape to complete the southern stars. As far as changing from comments to support— I'd like to, but since I have some "skin in the game," I have to be particularly careful about conflict of interest in this case. If I can see my way clear to a solid support, I'll do so.

Cheers. Haus^Talk 16:04, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

OK, I can do the southern stars. I've just downloaded and installed Inkscape. Question on the process: did you scan the page from Bowditch, or did you take it from the [version]? Also, did you try to automatically generate the vectorized charts, or did you manually draw over the scanned version and only used that as a guide? I just want to make sure that I use the same approach, so that the output looks comparable. Alexander Falk (talk) 16:19, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Basically #2: selected the image in acrobat, copied it to the clipboard, saved it to a file, and brought the file into inkscape using "File->Import". I'm pretty sure you'll be able to use the grid, legend, icons and so forth from the northern stars as a big start on the southern stars. More in a bit. Haus^Talk 16:32, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

OK -- a copy of the diagram should be floating above and to the right. Have fun with it, and I should be in and out until about midnight your time. Haus^Talk 17:16, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

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