User talk:Kroton pl

Apology for language - I though you are Czech since you create the maps there. I am author of location maps in Category:Maps of Czech Republic. They are created from empty map by adding red dot manually, in Paintbrush. I put these maps into articles on English Wiki and some articles in Czech Wiki. I have hope they will get used on German and Slovak Wikis as well. I guess your maps are generated from some GIS tool. Is the tool freely available?

Someone on Czech Wiki had found existence of these two sets of maps. It may be worthwile to coordinate and standardize on one set. Pavel Vozenilek 04:04, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the delay, I am not much on Wikipedia these days. I use template [1] created by User:Caroig (don't know how) and I added the red dot manually. For every new location I use an existing map and move the dot manually (in MS Paintbrush).

I had planned to create at least minimal stub on English Wiki for every Czech town/village having location map. There are several hudreds towns, thousands of villages, hundreds of castles etc (my estimate, do not have exact numbers at hand) - years of work just to make stubs. Last few months I got quite tired and am not contributing as much as I wish.

I would personally prefere the PNG map since it is the most low tech solution available and anyone should be able to repeat it. I am willing though to switch to your format and SW if it is easy to use enough and if you will re-create most of the pictures ;-). I already switched once from older location map (also PNG) that was stored on English Wikipedia to current (visually better) location map stored on Commons (I change the older maps gradually). AFAIK I am almost the only one fiddling with the PNG maps.

Ideally Wiki would have some tool where I put coordinates and it gives out nice location map but this is just dream in current situation. Pavel Vozenilek 19:47, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]