Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/1562 map of the Americas

1562 map of the Americas

Original - The 1562 Spanish map of the Americas titled "The Americas, or A New and Precise Description of the Fourth Part of the World". The Spanish and French coats of arms in the upper left corner appear together, embraced by Victory, symbolizing the 1559 marriage between Phillip II of Spain and Elisabeth of Valois.

Reason

Very representative and historically significant map of the New World, the first to apply the name California. Larger version of existing file, almost every minor word is readable.

Articles this image appears in

Diego Gutiérrez (cartographer), History of California

Creator

Diego Gutiérrez, Hieronymus Cock

• Support as nominator --Brand[t] 08:11, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose Support - The sides of the bottom of the map are cropped off. The previous version of the file had the entire map. Kaldari (talk) 16:28, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

The cropped parts on that version are blank and bear no significance. Brand[t] 19:05, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Most of the cropped parts are blank, but you also cropped some of the decorative border along the edge of the map. Kaldari (talk) 02:24, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Just crop a few pixels less on the sides and bottom and I'll give it an enthusiastic support. Kaldari (talk) 16:48, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, as you probably noticed, the current version is 3,200×3,498 pixels against 2,623×2,977 of the uncropped one, so I lean to retain my support. I've looked under magnification, the crop is not harsh. Brand[t] 17:41, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Not harsh? You cropped off part of the artwork. For such a rare and historic image, that's pretty harsh. Is it not possible to redo the crop? Kaldari (talk) 21:46, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

It was already cropped by default :) Thanks anyway Brand[t] 07:43, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

I've uploaded a new version which is much higher in resolution (10,490 × 11,500 pixels) and with a less severe crop. I must warn everyone that the file is 92MB, though, so don't expect it to download quickly. Kaldari (talk) 22:15, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose The scanning of this map is of poor quality. It seems it was digitally stitched together in six sections. These sections do not line up, quite blatantly in many places. Jujutacular ^T · C 23:27, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 23:20, 15 December 2009 (UTC)