Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/South America from space

South America from space[edit]

Reason: Easily on par with the same of North America.
Articles in which this image appears: South America
Creator: NASA

Support as nominator --Sir Richardson (talk) 15:05, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Interesting, encyclopedic, and attractive. We have a bunch of these, but that's a reason for me to support rather than oppose - they're all of FP quality. Mostlyharmless (talk) 23:12, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support good --George Chernilevsky ^talk 15:48, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support alt version -- Avenue (talk) 20:39, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I have to ~~oppose~~ currently. There is heavy compression artifacts all around the land masses, which is especially unacceptable when there is a 21600x10800 TIFF available (the crop of South America at full resolution turns out to be about 3500x4800). I'll take a crack at using the software listed to create a new image. Jujutacular ^T · C 05:31, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I made an enquiry to User:Davepape who has done a FP of Antarctica. He kindly generated an image of South America for us. I think you'll find it to be of much higher quality. I support ALT. Jujutacular ^T · C 17:05, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support alt and oppose original. Resolution of alt is too superior. Maedin\^talk 21:15, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support as per prev similar noms... I'm always slightly dissapointed I can't zoom in further though to see people's houses etc ala google earth... ah well Gazhiley (talk) 15:05, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:South America - Blue Marble orthographic.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 10:10, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]