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Inverness Copse, Belgium: map ref query

Does anyone have a map reference for the vicinity of Inverness Copse or a way to find it please? Thanks Keith-264 (talk) 13:01, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Found it. {{coord|50|50|37|N|02|58|18.6|E|type:landmark_scale:1000_region:BE|display=title}}Keith-264 (talk) 09:17, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Are simple maps in public domain?

Please see a discussion I started at commons:Commons_talk:Copyright_rules_by_subject_matter#Inconsistency_with_the_map_section_.28too_restrictive_with_no_good_reason.29. I believe we may be too restrictive for very simple maps; crucially it is likely we should treat very simple maps as always in public domain and non-copyrightable, which requires a new template,and rewriting the casebook paragraph on maps. To keep discussion at one place, I suggest that anyone who wishes to comment does so not here but at the linked discussion page. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 23:07, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Gheluvelt Plateau, Belgium

Does anyone know of a topograpical map or is willing to do one for the area fought over in late 1917? Thanks Keith-264 (talk) 09:18, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Map needed at Laws regarding incest

We need one for the Laws regarding incest page. 92.19.180.68 (talk) 21:30, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

OSM Location map

500m
550yds

Baron Hill Maen Hir

Llifad enclosure

Llanfechell Triangle

Pen-y-Morwydd Barrow

  

Scheduled monuments around Llanfechell, Anglesey

Has anyone been following the roll out of Open Street Map provision? There has been some low-key announcements, in case the roll out caused too much new traffic on the servers, but recently a template called {{Graph:Street map with marks}} has been written by a wikimedia staffer Yurik, and also a fullscreen feature called <maplink> has appeared (see mediawiki Kartographer).

I have rolled these together into {{OSM Location map}}. It allows an editor to include a map in a frame for anywhere in the world, at any scale from the whole world down to one or two streets, using the Open Street Map mapping data, with no need for pre-determined map templates. The template can also show a single mark and label. (I aim to expand this to allow multiple user definable marks and labels). It also links through to the full-screen version, which opens at the same scale and location, over the current page. This has a richer map interface, can be re-scaled and panned by the user, has scope for thumbnail and link elements for the marker point(s), and gives an info panel linking to the maps, satellite images etc at geohack. ({{Graph:Street map with marks}} already allows unlimited numbers of marks and labels, but utilises a coding mark-up that is (to my mind) much trickier than a standard template and is particularly suited to using data directly from a Wikidata source.) RobinLeicester (talk) 18:15, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, RobinLeicester. I've not been following these developments, though I have produced a number of OSM-based location templates in the past. I'll forego the luddite jokes; I'd be happy not to have to use the traditional method again. Couple of issues, though:

• Does it integrate well with the various Infoboxes in which we tend to employ current versions of locations maps?
• Does it intergrate well with the {{coord}} template ... there was a recent RfC which now moves us away from discrete Lat, Long, Zoom parameters in infoboxes and towards the exclusive use of {{coord}} for coordinates
• I'm afraid I hate the copyright guff. It is distinctly not an improvement if we have to have a copyright notice visible on each map. I understand that attribution is necessary, but with the traditional method one needs to visit the map pge to see the copyright stuff. Is it now to be inflicted on us? That on its own would make me continue to use the old method and spurn the more convenient new method. --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:27, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

I stuck the copyright in because it's included on the wikivoyage version, but it probably isn't needed. (The one on the full screen is beyond my reach, but probably suffices for attribution). I suspect other solutions and options will be needed for most infoboxes (if at all). I am imagining this being used when an article describes four or five places and needs a map to show how they relate either to each other, or to the wider topic. I have no inside track on any future developments, and simply put this together because I could imagine using it. (eg it would answer the Russia map request above). RobinLeicester (talk) 18:56, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

I have managed to get multiple markers working, and have shown these on the example. RobinLeicester (talk) 00:47, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Loved it, Thanks Robin for making this. -- naveenpf (talk) 11:53, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

RobinLeicester: I used this after you told me over at Graphics Lab. Then, before knowing about this project, posted this at NRHP trying to get some feedback about integration into infoboxes. There hasn't been much response over there yet. But I think if would be great if it would work in infoboxes so the coordinates wouldn't have to be repeated (unless maybe you didn't want the location point in the center of the map) and the map would display within the infobox with the other map control features. There are hundreds of "map errors" caused by location maps with the locator point not falling within the map boundary(listed in Category:Location maps with possible errors) that I would like to start fixing. How do we get the ball rolling on integration with the infoboxes and {{coord}}? MB 03:20, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

MB: Looks like a useful discussion starter at NRHP. Good work on that.

As you have spotted, there are various reasons why it is not easy to 'automatically' roll out a map like this into an info box. In most cases the infobox will 'know' the name of an administrative unit, but not its how big that is or how to find it. (That information is embeded within the map template it calls.) So all of that information has to be manually found and reworked for the OSM map. Then, a lot of the OSM mapped areas don't included the relevant admin boundaries, so you might lose helpful information by switching to OSM. (Lots of regional boundary location maps are carefully crafted items which should not be abandoned wholesale.) Also, none of the dots or labels on OSM Location map carry wiki links. This is intrinsic to the way it works. As I understand it - (and I didn't do any of the clever stuff that creates the actual maps) - when you set up the osm map and click 'save changes', it generates a single flat image - to avoid having to do all the complex calculations every time someone visits a page. This is how it can manage not to overload the servers as it is no harder than a picture except when the page is edited - which by comparison is a rare event. But the result is that there is no 'text', and no objects on the map - only bitmap dots. (the text fonts look a bit rough for the same reason.) The underlying technology is from {{Graph:Street map with marks}} and there has been some discussion about some of these issues on the mediawiki template page. There are other emerging map options which might answer some of these needs, using <mapframe> (which will give similar framed OSM maps, but with interactive pan and scale available - but is not yet available on en: wiki) and <maplink> which is available, has the same interactivity, but is a fullscreen feature. This has its own sets of advantages and limitations - and is included as a link on OSM Location maps.

Another limitation I have ducked out of is that it cannot cope with deg/min/sec formats, or E/W. It only uses +/- decimal degrees, which just adds another manual stage in converting many existing Location map entries. It presumably could be bolted on, but my programming in Lua is non-existent, and it would be painful to try doing it in wiki template markup. For similar reasons, I am not engaging with any attempts to re-work {{coord}}. I guess it might happen - the wikiminiatlas is actually a version of Open Street Map already. Maybe once mapframe is on stream, that will provide a smoother alternative, but I don't know where that conversation might happen.

So in the meantime, working through the Category:Location maps with possible errors) and seeing which can be replaced with an OSM version would be a useful exercise. In all cases, I think it will be an editorial and manual process, rather than an automatic one. Any infoboxes that allow {{location map+}} may be possible to insert an OSM version directly into the infobox. Many don't seem to allow that - just wanting the name of the administrative unit. In those cases, simply switching it off, and creating an appropriate map of the same width below seems good to me. RobinLeicester (talk) 02:13, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Something is wrong with this map of Ürümqi

Ürümqi administrative divisons

I thought you folks might want to know. —Mark Dominus (talk) 15:50, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

What is wrong with the map? --Mark viking (talk) 18:19, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Never mind, I see I didn't look into it carefully enough before I mentioned it. I was concerned about the large triangular shape at the top but our article on Midong District claims that this is correct. Sorry for the false alarm. —Mark Dominus (talk) 19:18, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox map

Template:Infobox map has been nominated for merging with Template:Location map. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. —hike395 (talk) 03:39, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Inset locator maps in location maps - is there a standard to follow?

I am relatively new to making maps for Wikipedia. I have little cartography or graphic design expertise, but am familiar with goespatial data. I would like to make Location Maps of Australian local government areas (LGAs) and cities, with a focus particularly for use in {[tl|Infobox Australian place}} on town and suburb articles. I made File:Australia South Australia City of Playford location map.svg a couple of years ago, and realise I probably used the wrong colour for surrounding LGAs. I think I got this one right. Is there anything else I should do differently to comply with the current standards? Most of the maps that have been made for LGAs in Victoria have a locator map in an inset. Is this a standard that I should follow, or avoid in favour of including alternative maps in the infobox at different scales? Is there a standard or advice on insets? --Scott Davis ^Talk 13:03, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Location map pin not quite right?

Plered

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The location of Plered in Java, Indonesia

Plered

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The location of Plered in Java, Indonesia

I added a {{Location map}} to Plered [1], but somehow the result doesn't quite right. When I click on 7.863471°S 110.411285°E / -7.863471; 110.411285, the Bing Maps and Google Maps result looks right, but the pin in the Plered article using the same coordinate is more northerly and westerly than the Google Maps location, so much so that it now shows outside the borders of Yogyakarta Special Region. Any idea? Could the base map be wrong? HaEr48 (talk) 07:45, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Update I added relief=1 to the template and now the location seems correct (compare the maps attached in this section - they both have the same coordinates). Could the non-relief map be wrong? How could it be fixed? (I'm not very knowledgeable about the technical aspect). HaEr48 (talk) 07:52, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

The fault lies with Template:Location map Indonesia Java which specifies the use of two maps and specifies the east & west bounds of the maps ... those bounds match the map File:Java Locator Topography.png but not the map File:Indonesia Java location map.svg since it has slightly different bounds. The two maps need the same bounds; the effect of not having the same bounds is that the pin moves from map to map. The solution is to replace one of the images, and ensure that both images have the same bounds as are specified in the template. --Tagishsimon (talk) 08:31, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Is there an easy way for a noob to do it? HaEr48 (talk) 05:04, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

@HaEr48: It's a bit tricky. As a temporary fix, I've corrected the extents so that they match the regular location map and removed the option to use a relief map (since non-relief is the default and File:Indonesia Java location map.svg is a better map overall). That should do until someone can create a topographic map to go with it. – Joe (talk) 10:35, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Proposed merging

Discussion about a proposed merging for Category:Topographers and Category:Surveyors.--Vagrand (talk) 17:35, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Map of Sweden

Hi I made a new location map of Sweden (both the white and the topographic versions). They are using a much better projection than the current one. I wrote the conversion formula in the commons file description, and I also implemented them in the french and swedish wiki. Could someone implement it in the english wiki and get rid of the atrociously distorted one currently used?

Also I made more than half (and more coming slowly) of the topographic versions of counties of Sweden maps for example File:Sweden Scania relief location map.png (see the category for the others), so you could also put those in. Silverkey (talk) 14:52, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Siberia physical labelled map

Editors familiar with making/fixing image maps, please see Template talk:Siberia physical labelled map#Screwed up for some some users. The way that template is implemented is causing the image map to be shown to some users as 6 separate images, each with their own set of scroll bars. (The linked comment goes into a little more detail.) - dcljr (talk) 17:51, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

This edit seems to have fixed it. - dcljr (talk) 07:21, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Map overlay

Hey all, I have a Google Maps overlay of state senate/house districts. I can also download the KMD directly. What's the best way for me to put this on Wikipedia? The current districts have been out of date since 2010. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cullywilliams (talk • contribs) 21:43, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

Making a new template/module

What I think I need to do is to create a version of Template:Location map United Kingdom Bedfordshire with one difference:

• Instead of using File:Bedfordshire UK location map.svg, which shows the local government boundaries from 2009 to the present day.
• It needs to use File:Bedfordshire_outline_map_with_UK.png, which shows the local government boundaries from 1974 to 2009.

The reason for wanting to do this is so that articles such as Mid Bedfordshire District Council election, 1995 show the then district boundaries. (I know that there were some slight changes in the district boundaries at various times between 1974 and 2009 - but they were too small to matter much on this scale map - see this link for the 1991 changes).

I would do it myself - but when I tried Template:Location map United Kingdom Bedfordshire 1974-2009 it comes up with a permission error "You appear to be trying to create or edit a location map definition for United Kingdom Bedfordshire 1974-2009 in the wrong namespace." Can somebody help please?-- Toddy1 (talk) 16:04, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

The Permission Error message provides a redlink taking you to the (as I dimly understand it) now preferred namespace for these things, which is Module:Location map/data/United Kingdom Bedfordshire 1974-2009. The content of the module would be something very much like that found within Module:Location map/data/Albany OR, which is fairly straightforwards - the bounding coordinates for the map, and pointers to the map file. The problem you really face is knowing the bounding coordinates for the map; they're not included in the File:Bedfordshire_outline_map_with_UK.png record, and appear to have migrated slightly to the east and possibly a little to the south as well when compared with File:Bedfordshire UK location map.svg. So. Problem. --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:07, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the help.-- Toddy1 (talk) 07:47, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Vatican City map

This location has not been assessed for three years. Maybe, someone could assess it? ^Ol^Ja 18:10, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Discussion about the reliability of a map made by István Kniezsa in 1938

Please check the discussion at Talk:Hungarians#Kniezsa's ethnic map and post your opinions on the article talk page. 123Steller (talk) 14:39, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Geographic coordinate system

An IP editor is making disruptive edits to Geographic coordinate system, making many ungrammatical edits. I urge editors to monitor this article. Jc3s5h (talk) 20:52, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

I don’t think those should be reverted indiscriminately; some of the edits are improvements. Strebe (talk) 00:28, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

Pushpin maps

Please note that there is currently a discussion regarding the use of pushpin maps at Talk:Middlebury, Connecticut#RfC about pushpin map in infobox. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:39, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

32 cardinal points on Commons

At Commons Category:32 cardinal points are arrow icons for the 32 cardinal points, if you need them for map making or whatever. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 22:22, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Needed: maps of Korea

Our article on Geography of Korea has no basic map. —Mark Dominus (talk) 01:01, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

@Dominus: What kind of map?

Those are what we have in Maps_of_Korea. If you need something else you can contact me and hopefully I can help, depending on what you want. --Goran tek-en (talk) 16:22, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Updating the following map

Hi, I have never updated any map on Wikipedia. But this map [2] has to be updated because few days back the membership of the International Cricket Council has been updated. This one represents the old membership map. Unfortunately the user who uploaded this map is blocked now. So please, some admin help us at [3] on how to change or update this membership map. Thank you. Arka 92 14:38, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

You don't need an admin to update a map, Itz arka. If you don't know how to do it yourself you can make a request at the Map Workshop. That's what it's there for! – Joe (talk) 14:48, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Better way to do this?

There is a map in Newmarket Canal that a user uploaded from OpenMaps. This works, but I'm wondering if there is a better way to do this? Perhaps something that shows the actual route? Any suggestions? Maury Markowitz (talk) 19:01, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand but one can always make a map just for this purpose and there you can remove or add whatever you want. If yo need help with that you can contact me. --Goran tek-en (talk) 19:29, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Maps from the Boston Public Library

A few weeks ago I asked Fæ to upload some images from the Boston Public Library's "Norman B. Leventhal Map Center" Flickr photostream to the Commons and I have finished categorising them; around 400-500 images. They are now included in the Commons category c:Category:Photos from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL's photostream where there are also many other BPL images. This group of maps (uploaded on 27 July) includes a wide range; a few from the 16th-18th century, but most are 19th century US maps, many of the Boston, Massachusetts and New England region but much else including world maps. There are several railroad maps and nautical charts. Some are post 1923 US published maps so I checked the copyright renewals before adding the appropriate copyright tag which I have done in all other cases because the creative commons license in not correct for a slavish copy of any pre-1923 2D item published in the US. However, the Flickr images are not the highest resolution and the original source links given (though some are broken) link to the original pages on the BPL website where a much higher resolution jpg and an even higher quality tiff are available. During categorising, I had to download a few of the higher resolution images so I could read the details, but most are the directly from Flickr images, so if you want a better image just download them. Hopefully they are of use to this project. ww2censor (talk) 13:59, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Project Emily

For the article on Project Emily, I would like to have a map of the United Kingdom with the locations of the 20 bases listed in the Deployment section of the article marked. Any suggestions as to how to go about this? Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:21, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7: Sounds like a job for {{Location map+}}. – Joe (talk) 07:58, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! That's exactly what I want. Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:48, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Done! My compliments to the people who put the module together. Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:42, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Error on map

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antarctic_Region.png - I see only a misprint here that the possessions of Norway do not reach the poles and for some reason instead of a normal triangle, like the rest of them, they break off with a broken line - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antarctica,_Norway_territorial_claim_(Queen_Maud_Land,_2015).svg . --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 16:03, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

That's not a misprint, Norway didn't specify the latitudinal limits of their claim until 2015, so any map prior to that should show a fuzzy/indistinct northern and southern boundary to the claim. That map is correct for the date it was published. See more at Queen Maud Land. Kmusser (talk) 13:14, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

Confederate States of America

Hello, WikiProject Maps members. Would anyone be able to create a map of the Confederate States of America that is similar to this one? It would be for use in the infobox of that article, as discussed at Talk:Confederate States of America#Map in infobox. I think this map is almost good enough, but for some reason the state of Mississippi is not labeled, and there's also an extraneous caption. On the plus side, it shows all the Confederate and Union states and territories quite clearly. Note also that the map is static, not animated, so that's good too. Any help would be appreciated. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 23:20, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

I actually have a CSA-specific map in the works. (I made that map, and the maps at Territorial evolution of the United States) I'll engage the conversation over there. --Golbez (talk) 23:53, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Sounds good. Thanks. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 23:56, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Standardising map parameters in infoboxes

I'm proposing to standardise the map parameter names in infoboxes; please see, and comment at, Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Standardising map parameters in infoboxes. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:09, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Question regarding conventions

So, to develop my GIS-software skills I have started to learn how to make nice-looking maps. To try different approaches, I have made two different maps (see the gallery below). While the first one is somewhat according to the color schemes of The Swedish National Land Survey, the second one is somewhat according to the convention suggested at this project. However, I think that the color schemes of this project might be somewhat misguiding, as green could suggest forest areas, and as the elevation differences are quite small in this specific area.

• 
  Style from The Swedish National Land Survey's maps
• 
  Style from this project's convention

Well, what I wonder is really, what type of approach should I take? Should I try to conform with the conventions set up at this page, and are there any special conventions regarding natural objects (such as rivers, mountains or lakes)? moralist 08:14, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Request for Houston-area pushpin maps

How do I request pushpin maps for the Houston area? I'd like to use them in Houston-area school articles.

I'd like to have pushpins for these top priority places (in TX):

• City of Houston
• Harris County
• Fort Bend County
• Brazoria County
• Montgomery County
• Galveston County

For smaller cities, they are not as important but they can be added too if you like (If anyone only wants to do some I can narrow it down to more major cities) :

Harris County:

• Bellaire
• Cloverleaf CDP
• Galena Park
• Hedwig Village
• Humble
• Pasadena
• South Houston
• Tomball
• Sheldon CDP
• Crosby CDP

Galveston County:

• Bolivar Peninsula CDP
• Galveston
• League City
• Friendswood
• Dickinson
• Texas City
• La Marque
• Santa Fe

Fort Bend County:

• Sugar Land
• Missouri City
• Sienna Plantation CDP
• Rosenberg
• Stafford
• Pecan Grove CDP
• Mission Bend CDP
• Needville
• Fulshear

Brazoria County:

• Angleton
• Alvin
• Clute
• Damon CDP
• Danbury
• Freeport
• Manvel
• Pearland
• Sweeny
• West Columbia

Montgomery County:

• The Woodlands
• Conroe
• Magnolia
• Montgomery

WhisperToMe (talk) 08:33, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

I'm a beginner, where do I find the map of the world with country borders

Hello, I'm a total beginner with regard to maps. Could someone please tell me where I find the basic map of the world with national borders - the type of map commonly used to draw perception of corruption, income levels, or crime rates by country, please? And the instructions for how to color the countries please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snowinmelbourne (talk • contribs) 02:03, 6 October 2017‎

Snowinmelbourne, check out this, you are looking for location maps.

Yug (talk) 14:21, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Historic township mapping concern

Please see Talk:Richland Township, Scott County, Missouri. Can anyone help?: Noyster (talk), 09:29, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Assigning colours to opposing sides in battle maps

Is there a standard for assigning colours to opposing sides in battle maps? I ask because I have produced maps for some First World War battles in which I have chosen blue for British forces and red for German forces, only to then find that other maps have reversed this colour assignment. It would be confusing if both maps needed to be displayed in the same article. FactotEm (talk) 09:38, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

For a particular conflict, I guess it would just be by convention (for example cold war conflicts are usually red for Soviet-aligned, blue for western-aligned). But I don't really see how you could have a standard in general? There is a set standard for civil war maps: red for government, and green or other colour for rebels / militias. Rob984 (talk) 11:38, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

• Ideally we would assign arbitrary colors in every article, forcing readers to pay close attention. When every map is a visual clone it turns into wallpaper rather than a tool for expressing an idea. More important than which color you assign is choosing two or more colors that have equal visual weight. —Dennis Bratland (talk) 17:34, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Location map Balkans

Template:Location map Balkans. I want to use the map for international mountains. But it has wrong border longitude and latitude values. The map extends waaay beyond 18 and 23 longitude E and 41-48 W. Anyone knows the correct values? Sersan Mayor Kururu (talk) 19:36, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Map malfunctioning in Kaohsiung Japanese School

I tried entering the coordinates for Kaohsiung Japanese School but the map is placing the school out to sea. I double-checked the coordinates I got from Google Maps. I wonder what's happening? WhisperToMe (talk) 10:21, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

It looks like Module:Location map/data/Kaohsiung has been set up incorrectly; probably the border coordinates are off slightly. Unfortunately it's hard to fix without knowing what coordinates the map-maker actually used. Perhaps Luuva or Chongkian can help? – Joe (talk) 12:06, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

There, I've changed it based on the location coordinate given in Google Map (22°37'47.4"N 120°20'01.9"E). But during the map display of Kaohsiung map, the dot is still on the sea. The Taiwan map shows rather correct though (in land). I'm not sure what went wrong, I'm not really expert in these map thingy. But actually if I can raise a question, does it really important to locate any place (as dot) on a map with such wide coverage? I guess it gives little information for reader to locate it. Dot location within Lingya District map (district where the school is located) might probably be more useful, but not such a huge Kaohsiung or Taiwan map. Chongkian (talk) 12:19, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Having the district maps would be even better. I notice school templates are supposed to have all levels of subdivisions from the sovereign state on down, but the district maps are the best as defaults. WhisperToMe (talk) 13:54, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

I guess the "border coordinates" (top/bottom/left/right) parameters in Module:Location map/data/Kaohsiung are not accurate enough to make the dot locate at the target place. Projection might be a problem too, since the map wasn't created with any GIS standard (so I don't have any precise coordinate data of the map). Probably need to set the parameters more accurate, or better make a new standardized map image. --luuva (talk) 14:12, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Technically I'm using Module:Location map/data/Taiwan Kaohsiung but the code is the same. WhisperToMe (talk) 14:35, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

@WhisperToMe:. You could try using {{OSM Location map}} instead. It can produce a map of an area at any scale. The only downside is I don't think it can be included in infoboxes yet. – Joe (talk) 14:25, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! It might be handy for Lycée Français de San Francisco, where the Ortega campus is shown out to sea in the San Francisco city map but is on land on the SFBA Map (even though the coordinates are the same) WhisperToMe (talk) 10:12, 11 December 2017 (UTC)