Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop/Archive/Mar 2020
Latest comment: 5 years ago by John M Wolfson in topic Requesting map of New York City Assembly districts from the 1920s
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Meant to be a map of Richmond
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- Used on 27 pages on en:wp, and on 62 pages on 56 other wikis
- Request
- This map is intended to depict the ___location of the city of Richmond, Virginia, but by some mistake it accidentally highlights the unrelated Richmond County, Virginia. (Note that File:Map of Virginia highlighting Richmond County.svg properly highlights the county.) Could you take off the current highlight and add a new highlight for the city? For the city ___location: if you look at File:Map of Virginia highlighting Henrico County.svg, you'll see that this map's highlighted area is like a "U", with another blob in the middle. That blob is the city of Richmond. And finally, since the Richmond city map is used to represent the city, and has the right name and everything, please overwrite the existing map, and don't edit any other files. Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 02:25, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
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Quifangondo Portuguese translation
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Need translation to English
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- Used on Battle of Quifangondo
- Request
- 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! --Katangais (talk) 21:48, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
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Requesting map of New York City Assembly districts from the 1920s
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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.
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- 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 here (for those inclined, the individual election district boundaries can be found in the 1918 Almanac 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.
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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. – John M Wolfson (talk • 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. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 01:21, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
- Update: I have now made a map of the districts in the Bronx 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. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 01:03, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
- All five boroughs are available I have now created maps for all five boroughs (Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Richmond/Staten Island) if anyone would like to merge them into a single citywide map. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 16:27, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
Done The map is here. Cleanup and adding the Jamaica Bay islands would be much appreciated, but the map is mainly done. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 19:23, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
