User talk:Kamlung

Welcome!

Hello Kamlung, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially those regarding Oregon highways. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Thank you! And also, thanks for providing these information links. They're proving to be quite invaluable for a green Wikipedian like myself. :) -- Kamlung 07:52, 5 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Interstate Shields

I think the Interstate highway shields you've uploaded as replacements to those provided by Denelson83 are more legible and of higher quality. I would like to update all other Interstate shields with versions based this model. According to the notices, they are the official work of a USDOT employee. Where can similar shields be obtained? Thanks! -- Fogger 02:00, 5 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Originally, these are based off of the designs from R.C. Moeur's Manual of Traffic Signs in the route marker section. I used the 1988 MUTDC standard style sign, which maximised font size and legibility. From those images, I was able to get a comparative font size and spacing to use on the current signs uploaded. The only interstate signs i've replaced were for interstates I've driven on or have fond memories of (which is why a lot of them are West Coast interstates :) ), and if there wasn't a sign image provided recently for any particular interstate, I uploaded those too. Also, if you have a program like Photoshop or anything of the like, I would recommend creating new shield images as Transparent PNGs. Just take an example shield I put up, cover up the number with the same colour blue patch and overlay whatever route number you want on top. The ShieldsUp! generator is also a great tool, if you don't mind fixing up the images after screen-grabbing them. Oh yeah, which reminds me, use the Roadgeek 2005 Series D font for 1-2 digit interstates, and Roadgeek 2005 Series C for 3-digit interstates. Get the fonts here, it's free! Thanks for your input! -- Kamlung 07:52, 5 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Interstate-80.png

A bot tagged your image as having no copyright info. Could you please tag the image? Oterwise it will get deleted.

--Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 17:28, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I think this one should be deleted anyway. Wherever this image is linked to should use the other I-80 image instead. -- Kamlung 05:36, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Interstate-80.png has been listed for deletion

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Barnstar

For your excellent contributions of route marker images of all sorts, I hereby award you this Graphic Designer's Barnstar. Scott⁵¹¹⁴ 05:06, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

SHS 2004

You are correct in saying that a hell of a lot of the 3di signs out there appear to use "C" lettering (like the 2di's). I actually can't seem to find one that uses "E" along my usual routes, but I have certianly not looked very hard. (I can only speak really for New York, though. (specifically Westchester and the Bronx, and a bit of Queens and Nassau). I'm just confused about one thing: Why use a 1988 SHS when there is a perfectly good 2004 one? (see page 3-1, M1-1) I'm actually not sure where I would get a 1988 SHS book, but somehow I assume that it wasn't initially posted on the web. ;-) There is a chance the font I use isn't perfect, but SHS 2004 specifies the width of the word INTERSTATE, and it is definetely 42% wider for 3di's. I personally like the nice big "INTERSTATE", since, after all, the shield is wider, so why waste space on the sides? Anyway, I'm not about to just go and change every 3di sign; I think the one I did (Image:Interstate-469.png) was the only one missing when I decided to post a 3di shield using the SVG I cooked up. I guess I should post the SVG, but I'm pretty sure you'd need the fonts I use, so MediaWiki's PNG rendering would look terrible. Anyway, sorry for the lack of structure in the above mess. To summarize:

Why use 1988 SHS rather than 2004 SHS?
I plan on publicising my SVG, which would really only need 3 characters changed to make any 3di. Sounds like a job for perl and Apache Batik SVG Rasterizer!
I still haven't persued my idea about putting state names by using M1-2,3 as a model.

--Chris 02:31, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Created page for OR-11, OR-27, need sheild graphic

Since you've done an excellent job creating these for existing highway pages; and since I'm lousy with Photoshop, a polite request for a few more.

Oregon State Route 11 Oregon State Route 27

Thanks!

--EngineerScotty 07:11, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done and done! --Kamlung 10:33, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]