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: This map depicts the movements and positions of the opposing forces in the [[Battle of Quifangondo]], during the Angolan Civil War. Unfortunately it's only available in Portuguese. Perhaps one of the resident Portuguese-speaking mapmakers here can give me a hand with an English language version? Thanks! --[[User:Katangais|<span style="color:#80461B;font-family:cursive" >'''''Katan'''''</span><span style="color:#80461B;font-family:cursive">'''''gais'''''</span>]] [[User talk:Katangais|(talk)]] 21:48, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

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== Requesting map of New York City Assembly districts from the 1920s ==

{{tl|resolved|[[User:Snow Lion Fenian|Snow Lion Fenian]] ([[User talk:Snow Lion Fenian|talk]]) 08:28, 17 April 2020 (UTC)}}

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Manhattan Assembly Districts 1917.png|A map of the contemporary Assembly districts of Manhattan; I'd like a version with all five boroughs.

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: Several, including [[1929 New York City mayoral election]], etc.

;Request:

:I have been working on old New York City municipal elections for a while, particularly of the 1920s and 1930s, and would like to have maps of the Assembly districts from that time. I already have the boundaries from the 1919 World Almanac [https://archive.org/details/worldalmanacency1919newy/page/864/mode/2up here] (for those inclined, the individual election district boundaries can be found in the 1918 Almanac [https://archive.org/details/worldalmanacency1918newy/page/834/mode/2up here]; unfortunately upstate districts, which from what I could gather were drawn by the relevant county prior to the 1960s, are not found in either of them), but given my ignorance of the streets outside of Manhattan as well as how to make complicated shapes in SVG I would be much obliged if someone could make the map. (As shown in the gallery above, I've already made a PNG map for Manhattan and can make ones for each individual borough, but I'd like a full citywide map.) If you make the map in SVG, please annotate which district is which in the source code as I use a text editor to manipulate vector graphics. (I also have a source for aldermanic districts from this time, but it's several days of the ''Brooklyn Daily Eagle'' that is lower resolution, and is less important.) I asked WikiProject NYC for this and was referred here.

:Thanks for your help. A barnstar awaits the person who takes me up on this.

:&ndash; [[User:John M Wolfson|John M Wolfson]] ([[User talk:John M Wolfson|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/John M Wolfson|contribs]]) 00:38, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

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:Please make [[Randalls and Wards Islands]] historically accurate as I did with the Manhattan map; they weren't joined together until the 1950s and 1960s. This matters here because Wards Island was a part of NY County's 18th district and Randalls Island (and Sunken Meadow to its east) was a part of NY County's 20th district. &ndash; [[User:John M Wolfson|John M Wolfson]] ([[User talk:John M Wolfson|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/John M Wolfson|contribs]]) 01:03, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

:'''Comment/Idea:''' Would it be easier for me to make maps of the various boroughs as I've done above, and then for someone else to photoshop/GIMP them into a single citywide map? It would make them the most geographically accurate and it may or may not be as much work. &ndash; [[User:John M Wolfson|John M Wolfson]] ([[User talk:John M Wolfson|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/John M Wolfson|contribs]]) 01:21, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

*'''Update:''' I have now made a map of the districts in the Bronx [[:File:Bronx Assembly Districts 1917.png|here]]. I get the feeling that one can use cage transform in Photoshop/GIMP to unify the borough maps into a single citywide map, although I haven't been able to do so myself. &ndash; [[User:John M Wolfson|John M Wolfson]] ([[User talk:John M Wolfson|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/John M Wolfson|contribs]]) 01:03, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

*'''All five boroughs are available''' I have now created maps for all five boroughs ([[:File:Manhattan Assembly Districts 1917.png|Manhattan]], [[:File:Bronx Assembly Districts 1917.png|the Bronx]], [[:File:Brooklyn Assembly Districts 1917.png|Brooklyn]], [[:File:Queens Assembly Districts 1917.png|Queens]], and [[:File:Richmond Assembly Districts 1917.png|Richmond/Staten Island]]) if anyone would like to merge them into a single citywide map. &ndash; [[User:John M Wolfson|John M Wolfson]] ([[User talk:John M Wolfson|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/John M Wolfson|contribs]]) 16:27, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

*{{Done}} The map is [[:File:New York City Assembly Districts 1917.png|here]]. Cleanup and adding the Jamaica Bay islands would be much appreciated, but the map is mainly done. &ndash; [[User:John M Wolfson|John M Wolfson]] ([[User talk:John M Wolfson|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/John M Wolfson|contribs]]) 19:23, 21 March 2020 (UTC)