Some of our community members have asked us to add a map of educational programs on
education.wikimedia.org. This is a feature that we agree would be really helpful to have on Outreach wiki. An interactive map, like the one used by Wiki Loves Monuments
here, would be even better. I've talked with
User:Heatherawalls and
User:Ragesoss about this, and we know it's possible, we just don't know how to make it happen ourselves. Heather encouraged me to reach out to the amazing mapmakers here on Commons to see if you may be able to support us in this. Can you? :) Many thanks in advance. All the best,
Anna Koval (WMF) (
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21:26, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Hello
Anna, nice to hear all this. Key factors are :
What is the map scope ? (USA? World?) and list of countries/places to display.
What is the depth of it (USA general interactive map + interactive map for each state ?)s.
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Different technologies and time frame are possible depending on these answer.
The
IEG:Wikimaps_Atlas I lead is expected to provide such interactive maps around August 2014 for general websites. Implementation into WMF's mediawikis then need approval and deployment.
Other approaches, while handmade, may be faster to get to you.
How soon can you do it? ;) The sooner the better would be great. But we realize that we are not the only customer at the market. :) Our map scope is:
the whole World.
Countries being:
Algeria
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Cameroon
Canada
Catalonia (Amical)
Chile
Colombia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Ecuador
Egypt
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Korea
Macedonia
Mexico
Myanmar
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
Norway
Panama
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Singapore
Slovakia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Tunisia
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela
Yemen
World interactive map for each country.
Ideally, all countries could be clickable. If there is an education program in that country, though, it would be one color, a bright bold color, and clicking it would lead to it's program description page. If there is not an education program in that country yet, it would be another color, a lighter color, like gray or white, and clicking it would lead to a page that says something like: "There's no Wikipedia Education Program yet in this country. But you can help us start one! Here's how..." Does that make sense? :)
The Wikiatlas project isawesome! Maybe we can be one of your test projects! :)
Understood. I'm also reaching out to other cartographers, too.
I hope this is enough information to get started. Let me know if you need more information. Looking forward to working together again! Thanks so much,
Yug! :)
Anna Koval (WMF) (
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19:22, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Ok,to translate this into graphist terms, I think we will have to work with
File:BlankMap-World.svg. I have a feeling of deja vue relate to this world map and interactive features, but I have no clue where I saw that. We could first provide you a static maps with these active countries colored which take a dozen of minutes to do, then look for an interactive solution. As usual, we graphists will try around, but that's really depending on the size of the task and our free time.
Yug(talk)21:06, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
Do we want an image map that is depending on code on the html page itself?
As this image map (to me anyway) should be uploaded to commons and work on any page from where it can be used anywhere (even outside wikimedia) this is a very important point, a stand alone version; free knowledge och free media.
If it's decided it should work anywhere then you can't use code on the html page, everything has to be within the svg file itself.
You can look
at this link for a test.
This test file is not based on a wikimedia server or run thru it's program so that has to be check also, but this is how it works on a normal website: the stand alone version, all within the svg file. --
Goran tek-en (
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06:44, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
1. Require geographic coordinates for the boundaries of the existing map in order to accurately locate mountains on
Vancouver Island on their individual articles. The typical map used is for the entire province of
British Columbia which is too large an area. --
Canuckle (
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21:48, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
2. Permit users to click on the 16 subranges listed on the map and open the article specific to the subrange. --
Canuckle (
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21:48, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
There are many things that could be improved about this image (e.g. JPG->SVG, adding constituency names, etc.). But, for now I would like an error in the image to be corrected — a saffron region in the map should be changed to cyan or blue, and vice versa, to reflect the correct election result.
A map (requiring Adobe Flash plugin) of all the constituencies and results as of 2009 can be found
here. Note the locations and colours of 4 - Korba and 9 - Mahasamund in the map therein.
Request: Communities of
St. Louis County, Missouri all have a file on each article page like
this, highlighting the location of the community within the county. Since the addition of Old Jamestown as a
CDP in 2010, these files have not been updated to include this new community. I have attempted to contact the original uploaders of these files, but have received no response.
@
Confession0791: After looking into this, I don't think that your request will work. Based on the scale of the current locator map, Old Jamestown would be a tiny red blob if it were outlined. The
source I had planned to use doesn't show this subdivision as part of MO. Any suggestions?
Philg88 ♦
talk14:52, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
If you look at all articles of St. Louis County cities and CDP's, they all appear as "tiny red blobs" on their locator maps. It merely shows the location of the community within the county. — Confession0791talk16:14, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
You mean are the other maps done? No, not yet. I intend to create a new SVG of the districts element of this map with lat/long referencing. It's not a trivial task so please be patient. Cheers,
Philg88 ♦
talk16:44, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Request:Hello! I would like to have the map of the Curve-billed Thrasher revised (I requested a map done on this bird probably a year and a half ago). After doing research, it turns out that it isn't located in California unless you count instances of vagrants. Here is the link:
National Geographic Curved-billed Thrasher
It would have been a great help for us that do graphic work here if you use the --New request-- link at the top. That provides us with all the code that is necessary for this work to be as easy as possible so please update this request.
For your request it would also have been great if you linked to the image you wants to have edited. Also please bear in mind that this is your topic, we that do graphic work here have probably zero knowledge on this topic.
It seems to me you are requesting a map of "Curve-billed Thrasher" what that now is? I can on your link see it's a bird, but you can't have a map of a bird, to me anyway.
We do graphic work not research so please help us to help you and provide us with all the necessary information. Also write in a way so that anyone understand your purpose and information. I do hope you understand this point of view, thanks. --
Goran tek-en (
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10:15, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
I think
LeftAire wants a map of the range of the Curve-billed Thrasher, copied form the National Geographic article cited above, but not so closely as to be a copyright violation.
Maproom (
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16:41, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Maproom is correct. I'm sorry I wasn't clear on the directions for what exactly that I had wanted. I didn't get a lot of sleep that day and it showed. Is it any way possible that the map of the range of the Curve-billed Thrasher from the National Geographic page could be closely copied w/o copyright infringement? If so, it would be greatly appreciated. Once again, my apologies. It's been quite a while since I've asked for a map graphic.
LeftAire (
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14:08, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Done the request to remove California and Nevada from the range, as shown in the cited National Geographic page. I have left the rest of the range alone, particularly Mexico and the blue bits shown in the sea.
Maproom (
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22:56, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
Request:
I created about 67 maps of each European Parliament constituency (see
Category:European_Parliament_constituencies), but after uploading them I realized there are 2 mistakes: Liechtenstein was mistakenly added, and French Southern/Antarctic Territory is not part of the electoral process. Both areas should be grey (Like the good example above). I already corrected all of them once when I changed the Irish constituencies, and I don't have the time to do all of 'em again. Thanks -
ArnoldPlaton (
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21:09, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
I downloaded a map and re-hashed it and then re-uploaded it but apparently, this is not a free licence. I was redirected here. Can anyone help? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Darrenjolley (
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11:26, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
(I have shrunk the image here to a more modest size.)
This image was uploaded to Wikimedia commons by 'CMLW22', who claimed it as "own work" and released it with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Why do you think think it is not a free licence? Anyway, the
Commons Help Desk might be a better place to ask.
Maproom (
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21:48, 30 May 2014 (UTC)