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It was archived on Wikipedia:Recent additions 220. -- Una Smith ( talk) 05:13, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Una Smith has changed my ‘reliable and accurate’ to ‘accurate and precise’. My view is that the competitor needs a usable map, which suggests reliable. No map can represent all features so no map can be precise (in the sense of being literally true). The specifications allow for this and features (including contours) can be generalised or distorted if by doing so the map gives a better visual representation for the competitor. Do we need something on this? Twiceuponatime ( talk) 08:14, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
I approached this from the printing industry point of view. Their standard process is four-colour printing. We use five-colours to print the map (which to them is a different process) and needs to be distinguished/specified. We then overprint the map with the overprint colour, making six. The ISOM lists seven colours with their printing industry (PMS) colour codes. One of the colours is 'grey' which (on an o-map) is usually produced by putting a 50% screen on the black (cheaper than printing it as a separate colour). It is made more complicated when the map is printed directly off a computer as the six/seven colours are printed together using a four-colour process (cmyk). (cyan, magenta, yellow, black). I will stick to five-colour. Twiceuponatime ( talk) 08:53, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
I have reworked ‘Purpose’ and ‘History’ as I felt it gave the wrong impressions.
Twiceuponatime ( talk) 09:24, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
The //Trivia// tag appears to have been inserted by a bot. Just removing it will not stop it happening again. I have inserted the following into the article, as a comment. Twiceuponatime ( talk) 09:59, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Sorry Oceanh - I had not spotted that you had changed the title to 'Other map information'. I have still added the comment - belt and braces approach. Twiceuponatime ( talk) 10:04, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
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The DYK was:
It was archived on Wikipedia:Recent additions 220. -- Una Smith ( talk) 05:13, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Una Smith has changed my ‘reliable and accurate’ to ‘accurate and precise’. My view is that the competitor needs a usable map, which suggests reliable. No map can represent all features so no map can be precise (in the sense of being literally true). The specifications allow for this and features (including contours) can be generalised or distorted if by doing so the map gives a better visual representation for the competitor. Do we need something on this? Twiceuponatime ( talk) 08:14, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
I approached this from the printing industry point of view. Their standard process is four-colour printing. We use five-colours to print the map (which to them is a different process) and needs to be distinguished/specified. We then overprint the map with the overprint colour, making six. The ISOM lists seven colours with their printing industry (PMS) colour codes. One of the colours is 'grey' which (on an o-map) is usually produced by putting a 50% screen on the black (cheaper than printing it as a separate colour). It is made more complicated when the map is printed directly off a computer as the six/seven colours are printed together using a four-colour process (cmyk). (cyan, magenta, yellow, black). I will stick to five-colour. Twiceuponatime ( talk) 08:53, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
I have reworked ‘Purpose’ and ‘History’ as I felt it gave the wrong impressions.
Twiceuponatime ( talk) 09:24, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
The //Trivia// tag appears to have been inserted by a bot. Just removing it will not stop it happening again. I have inserted the following into the article, as a comment. Twiceuponatime ( talk) 09:59, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Sorry Oceanh - I had not spotted that you had changed the title to 'Other map information'. I have still added the comment - belt and braces approach. Twiceuponatime ( talk) 10:04, 7 January 2009 (UTC)