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Thanks for making route maps for Nevada's state highways.

I don't know if you are aware that the U.S. Roads WikiProject has some standards for maps at its Maps Department page (some revised standards have been proposed at the main project talk page). I noticed some of the maps you've made for north/south routes recently are really tall and make the infobox really large.

I'm also curious what data set(s) you're using to make these maps, and how easily available it is.

Thanks again for your contributions so far! -- LJ  ↗ 08:34, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Ljthefro, thanks for the note! I'm familiar with the formatting standards, although I'd glossed over the bullet on infobox size. It's certainly something I'll improve with both the current and future maps. Another challenge I've had with Nevada in particular is how much context to show: state routes are mostly important within the context of the state, and a locator map seems to be somewhat standard (see e.g. M-6 (Michigan highway) or New York State Route 319. Road shields seem to be less consistently present, but I figure as the images are .svgs they're easy enough to remove.

As for data, I'd be happy to share my source files. I'm using Quantum GIS to produce the original .svg, then adding incidental data (shields, some labels, locator map) and doing most of the sizing within Inkscape. Thus it's relatively straightforward to crop a different area and produce a larger (or smaller) map. Roads come from the TIGER Census shapefiles, as do the incorporated place and county polygons, water area polygons (though I've been inconsistent about this too — water seems important for context around, say, Lake Tahoe). I've been double-checking the road data against NDOT's state highway descriptions. Shields come from Wikipedia. -- McMillin24 _contribs ^talk 17:49, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Ah, okay. I'm familiar with the TIGER files--mostly decent data, but you gotta really filter it in some cases. I did take a GIS course and have some familiarity with the methods, but I don't have the time (with work and grad school obligations) to really look at everything and produce decent maps to the USRD standard. I'm just happy somebody has taken an interest in making Nevada maps, so thank you for your efforts. -- LJ  ↗ 08:10, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

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