Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop/Archive/Sep 2020

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Independence from Britain

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  Actual flag of Dominica
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  Current flag of Belize
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  Pacific islands map

Article(s)

List of countries that have gained independence from the United Kingdom

Request

Okay, I've noticed a few inaccuracies with the above-left map that should probably be fixed:

1) The flag of the Dominican Republic is incorrectly shown for Dominica (above-centre), a completely different country.

2) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gained independence in 1979, not 1931.

3) There's no arrows linking the flags of Myanmar and Sudan to their respective countries.

4) The flag of Malta is wrongly shown to be linked to the Balearic Islands, not at Malta itself.

5) Nauru gained independence in 1968, not 1957.

6) The Maldives gained independence in 1965, not 1982.

7) The flags of Tonga and Tuvalu are actually shown pointing to Fiji, and the flag of Fiji itself is linked to Vanuatu (the actual locations of said countries are provided on the above-right map).

8) The flag of Qatar is wrongly shown to be linked to the United Arab Emirates, not at Qatar itself.

9) The flag of Jordan seems to be pointing more at the West Bank than at Jordan itself.

10) The flag of Belize was slightly altered in 2019 (as shown above), so the one on the map should be changed to reflect that.

11) The flag of Mauritius is not pointing at Mauritius at all, but rather at a random spot in the Indian Ocean.

12) Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia in 1975, not from Britain, hence it should be removed from the map (otherwise the map would have to include all other countries that gained independence from former British holdings, such as Samoa, Bangladesh, Namibia, South Sudan, etc.).

Thanks. Snow Lion Fenian (talk) 19:49, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

Trim map of semi-arid regions

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  Map of semi-arid regions worldwide
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  Map of deserts worldwide

Article(s)

Semi-arid climate

Request

These two maps are nearly identical, but the nominal size of the semi-arid map is a little bit larger. If you look at the very bottom, "below" Antarctica, there are lots of bright colors, and the far right side has a bunch of white areas. Could you trim this map so its nominal dimensions are the same are the nominal dimensions of the deserts map? 64.203.187.125 (talk) 18:40, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

Update to 4.0 Copyright for Mozambique map

Description of the image

• Description of first image
  Description of first image
• Description of second image (if needed)
  Description of second image (if needed)
• Description of third image (if needed; don't request too many at once, though)
  Description of third image (if needed; don't request too many at once, though)

Article(s)

Request

Details of your request go here… I modified the map of Mozambique for use in this journal article https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0007138

The journal will be removed unless the copyright on this image is updated to CC 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magude_District_in_Mozambique_2018.svg

Can you help with this? We are a malaria charity.

Discussion

Canadian regions

Article(s)

Structure of the Canadian Army and other Canada related articles.

Request

Good Day

for the aforementioned article I would like to request the creation of relief location maps for two of Canada's regions:

• Atlantic Canada: there is a map for three of the four provinces of this region (File:Carte topographique des Provinces Maritimes du Canada.svg), but it omits Newfoundland and Labrador
• Western Canada, which should include Northwestern Ontario (at least up to the city of Thunder Bay please).

additionally I would like to ask if it is possible to turn the map File:Quebec province topographic map-blank.svg into a map usable for the location map template and if it is possible to create a relief location map for the province of Ontario (I believe that as of now the only relief map of Ontario is: File:Map ont.jpg)

I intend to create location maps for Canadian Army and Air Force articles similar to these: Structure of the Italian Army#Army Geographical Distribution or Structure of the German Army#Geographic Distribution.

Thank you and with best regards -- noclador (talk) 09:49, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

As it is now, with maps of single province only, the creation of maps with the locations of Canadian Divisions becomes a chaotic mess. I.e. for the Structure of the Canadian Army#37 Canadian Brigade Group two graphically diverse maps are needed. As Canada is too big to use a map for Canada to show the Canadian Army's location separate maps for the four Canadian divisions are needed. noclador (talk) 13:20, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

Ability to crop maps so that they fit all of the points without including large empty areas

Lately I have been putting maps in articles that show a bunch of different points, and so far the process has been to either upload a new map every time I want to plot a point that doesn't fit on an existing map, or deal with a bunch of points being really close together on a map that exists. Going through the archives here it seems like some other people have had the same problem, and so far, the state of the art is to use {{CSS crop}}. Unfortunately, this template seems to only work with pixel offsets, implying that I'd have to manually go to the map and get its coordinate offsets, and then manually check the coordinates of all the points, etc.

Anyway, it seems like it'd be possible to make something that worked a bit more simply, and just automatically grabbed the coordinates for the original map, as well as the coordinates for your points, and parsed all of this into an automatic zoom level/scaling. I don't know how hard this is going to be, so I won't promise anything, but I will post here if it ever ends up happening. { $\mathbb {JPG}$ } 03:23, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Slightly incorrect South Sudan–Sudan border in

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  Location of Pakistan, areas controlled by the government of Pakistan are shown in dark green.
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  India. Area controlled by India in dark green; claimed but not controlled areas in light green.

Article(s)

Pakistan

Request

Correct the South Sudan–Sudan border.

The South Sudan–Sudan border in is slightly different to the South Sudan–Sudan border in other orthographic projections. Can someone change it to be the same as it is in File:India_(orthographic_projection).svg? Swiftestcat (talk) 08:11, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Discussion