Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop/Archive/Mar 2019

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Minor map error

Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Map of Gladstone in Henderson County, Illinois

Article(s): Gladstone, Illinois
Request: Maps of this sort generally depict a specific ___location by highlighting it in red, and if it's small enough, the ___location is circled in red. Unfortunately, this one has the wrong ___location circled: the circle's placed around Biggsville, Illinois instead. (If you glance at the Biggsville map, you'll see that it's properly circled.) Could the circle be moved from Biggsville to Gladstone? It would be a trivial copy/paste in a PNG, but I don't know much about the workings of SVG. Nyttend (talk) 21:51, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Discussion: Done. It's a fairly trivial edit in SVG as well, it just requires a vector editor like Inkscape, Karbon, or Adobe Illustrator. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 15:08, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

adding Mexican state boundaries to world map

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Same-sex marriage laws (vary state-to-state in Mexico)

Article(s): Marriage; Same-sex marriage; Same-sex union legislation; Civil union
Request: Mexican states have different laws and so are colored differently. The current hand-drawn borders are rather crude. Would it be possible to copy over the borders from another map? They don't need to be precise (they could and probably should be reduced to the resolution of the other borders on this map), but it would be nice if they were more accurate -- some of the states are barely recognizable. I tried doing this myself, but without knowing enough about map projections to calculate the proper center of rotation, it was rather hopeless. (Unlike the Indian reservations in the US, where I didn't need to worry about matching up with coastlines and could just skew to the local longitude line.); BTW, the unused states have been moved west off the edge of the map for future use as local laws change. But I suspect it would be best if we left them in place but set the opacity of the borders and fill of the unused states to zero, so the map could be updated with a text editor rather than using Inkscape. (Though I don't know about turning the pop-up labels off and back on. We don't need a pop-up label for a state there's no law for. Hovering over it should just produce 'Mexico' from the territory underneath. Is there a simple way to handle that in the code, like commenting it out? Or will tags automatically fail to display if a territory is made invisible?); The dots can be ignored for this request. They're for individual cities.; If somewhere there is a version of the original map this was based on that has subnational boundaries, I could copy them over myself. -- — kwami (talk) 22:55, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Discussion

Updating map at Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction

Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

map

At the article Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, please change Guyana on the map to blue, because it acceded to the Convention in 2019. Source: [1] 2A02:2F01:53FF:FFFF:0:0:6465:51A0 (talk) 22:28, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Done — kwami (talk) 05:03, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Request maps of Columbia, Missouri MSA and CSA

Latest comment: 6 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

A map of the Columbia, Missouri metropolitan statistical area
A map of the Columbia-Moberly-Mexico combined statistical area

Article(s): Columbia, Missouri, metropolitan area; Columbia, Missouri; Portal:Columbia, Missouri; Missouri census statistical areas

Request

The United States Office of Management and Budget updated the definitions of statistical areas on September 14, 2018. This included a number of changes to Missouri statistical areas including the addition of two counties to the Columbia metropolitan area. There hasn't been a map of the CSA since it was created, leaving the articles woefully outdated. The maps should be of Missouri with counties highlighted. The MSA map should include the counties of Boone, Cooper, and Howard. The CSA map should include the counties of Boone, Cooper, Howard, Audrain, and Randolph. A dot or indicator of some kind on the city of Columbia in the middle of Boone County would be a nice touch. Thanks for your consideration. -- Grey Wanderer (talk) 23:36, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

If it's helpful here[2] is the current CSA map. Grey Wanderer (talk) 14:05, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Discussion

@Grey Wanderer: For now, here are two SVG maps with the requested highlights. Because it's a plaintext file, I need to figure out where Columbia would fall on the pixel map, then draw a dot. I will replace the older versions with dotted versions.

Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 14:01, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Hey thanks! These versions look great so don’t feel like you have to go the extra mile. If you want to though maybe this map will help? Grey Wanderer (talk) 02:15, 9 April 2019 (UTC)