=Nichalp «Talk»= 09:35, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
I know right now we should be completely focussed on fixing standards, but still I wanted to ask whether we should have a section for map requests on the project page? We have tons of requested maps at WP:HOI. deeptrivia ( talk) 13:14, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
This is how it looks like at the momoent, districts to be added to only a few more states.
Unfortunately i wont be able to work on this for another month due to my univ exams followed by a trip to Mumbai ( I will come online tho) . I still have to add the tropic of cancer Nichalp asked me to do. I can add the missing districs when i come back
(source).
At the moment the file contains states on different layers and districts on different layers, so a wide variety of options are available to diplay. Just turn off whichever is not needed. Right now the districts are at 70%opacity so you can see the state borders underneath --
PlaneMad|
YakYak
18:48, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Anything else to be decided or clarified on the project main page? =Nichalp «Talk»= 20:10, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm pleased to see Nichalp's SVG map has come on a long way! May I suggest an improvement? It would be extremely useful to have an India map with Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan on (with relevant subdivisions). Indian culture has greatly influenced these countries and the historical borders of India (or the states that made up India) have changed from time to time. Such an expanded map would be very useful for cultural and historical purposes. Thanks. Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 22:41, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
proposal:
I suggest uploading non text version on commons and uploading text versions to english wp with same filename -- PlaneMad| YakYak 09:43, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Here's a blank Delhi map showing state and district borders, rail and DMRC tracks, besides roads, parks etc. What do you guys think of the colour scheme? Light yellow could not be used for territory of primary interest because it makes the white roads almost invisible. Other colours are all the recommended ones. This would probably help up concretize standards for city maps. deeptrivia ( talk) 06:14, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
This is an Inkscape question. I've been trying to make the borders between districts (see district map on right) coincident by brute force. It doesn't work well and takes a lot of effort. I'm sure there must be a better way to do this. What should I be doing? deeptrivia ( talk) 05:49, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Please see this discussion. - Ganeshk ( talk) 20:42, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Crosspost from Nichalp's talk page: Good news. I finally found a solution for the locator. I saw this dicussion and found this. This template picks up lat and long values and places a locator dot. It is pretty cool. No calculation required. I used that template with the India map. Can you please take a look at this page and let me know if the cities are fairly accurate? - Ganeshk ( talk) 15:57, 23 June 2006 (UTC) Example: {{Location map|India|float=none|label=Chennai|lat=13.09|long=80.27|position=right}} produces:
- Ganeshk ( talk) 16:02, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Made from a comprehensive list of highways
[8], i had to exclude a few ( 103-107) cause i couldnt find its exact route. If you open the svg file, all the paths have been named according to its number, eg "nh4".
Also marked the gq and nsew routes and major cities. Finished marking important cities and tourist towns for Kerala and TN. Notice that rivers have been drawn.
PlaneMad|
YakYak
19:45, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm unhappy with the hashed lines used to mark the disputed areas on the map. When the image is thumbed, the hashes are hardly discernable. Could it be reverted back using the two separate colours? =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
We need a infobox/template to superimpose clickable city names over the locator map. See the following example:
Template:Infobox Indian Jurisdiction has superimposition information, so the process should be somewhat easier. Here are the input parameters:
latd1, latd2, location_name1, name_position (right/left)
The output should be a red dot and the corresponding wikitext on the svg map. =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:17, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
How about creating a template to be added to maps under this project? -- PlaneMad| YakYak 16:25, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Indicating the disputed areas was an eyesore in my previous map because it tends to clash with information on the map itself such as roads etc. After a bit of experimentation i settled on the scheme shown on this map . Why?
I find this to be the simplest base map with least NPOV issues and sufficient for making informative and thematic maps like i did before [9]. Im open to suggestions but i strictly oppose using more than two shading colors as it will conflict with thematic maps. If nobody has issues with this, i can go ahead and start churning out maps -- PlaneMad| YakYak 19:34, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
No, we would have to show different borders and shading for claimed areas. It otherwise, does not adhere to the Neutral Point of view, which is non-negotiable as decreed by Jimbo. A small price to pay for accurate maps. =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:39, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi guys, your comments are needed here -- Lost (talk) 20:16, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Something struck me today about the Punjab map. There doesn't appear to be 19 districts on it as written on Districts of Punjab (India). There are only 17 on the map as far as I can tell (it appears to be 18 but Kapurthala District is split into two). So that means at least two districts are missing! Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 19:38, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Sas nagar, earlier known as mohali was made a district in 2008
After some experimentation, this combination seems pleasing to the eye, all are light shades and can be distinguished easily.
Hex | RGB | Sample | Used for |
---|---|---|---|
#C1E8FB | 193,232,251 | Colour 1 | |
#F4DFEC | 244,223,236 | Colour 2 | |
#C6E3C3 | 198,227,195 | Colour 3 | |
#FFEABF | 255,234,191 | Colour 4 |
The map of West Bengal — Image:India West Bengal locator map.svg is not correct as it does not depict the districts of East Midnapur and West Midnapur, rather depicts one Midnapur district (as of 2001). Could anyone help to develope the proper map?
I have not been able to find out a map in the web depicting the two districts seperately. However, I found out a way to developr a proper map. Please see this map. Now go to this website, and download "List of AC Name" from "Download data". An excel file will be downloaded listing all the assembly constituencies with their districts. From this data and the map, a map showing east and west Midnapur can be developed. What do you people think? Please help. Regards.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 16:28, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
A correct png map of West Bengal is now available, Image:WestBengalDistrictscurrent.png. Can anyone help render the West Bengal locator map correctly using the png image as guide? Regards.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 15:42, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
I added a Image-class to the project banner. On talk-pages of Images, the following can be added, {{WP India|class=Image|maps=yes}}. It will produce:
![]() | India: Maps Redirect‑class | |||||||||
|
and the images will categorizied under Category:Image-Class India articles. Please add the banner to the talk pages of all India-related map images. -- Ganeshk ( talk) 16:37, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Just chanced upon this category containing articles requesting maps : Category:Wikipedia requested maps in India. Thought I'd bring it to the attention of the cartography dept.-- thunderboltz (Deepu) 17:13, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 15:15, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello all. I am working on an article titled Satellite Instructional Television Experiment. There are almost no free images available for use in the article. So the only substitute is good maps. While researching I came across this UN report. There is a very illustrative map on Pg. 15 of the report. I would be grateful to anyone who can create a map like that for the article. Regards, - Aksi_great ( talk) 10:59, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
A request from WP:HOI. I think a map showing various parties of the Revolt of 1857 will add a lot of clarity to the article. The map could be based on http://www.history.upenn.edu/coursepages/hist086/material/schmidt38a.jpg. Thanks, deeptrivia ( talk) 08:04, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:36, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
=Nichalp «Talk»= 09:35, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
I know right now we should be completely focussed on fixing standards, but still I wanted to ask whether we should have a section for map requests on the project page? We have tons of requested maps at WP:HOI. deeptrivia ( talk) 13:14, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
This is how it looks like at the momoent, districts to be added to only a few more states.
Unfortunately i wont be able to work on this for another month due to my univ exams followed by a trip to Mumbai ( I will come online tho) . I still have to add the tropic of cancer Nichalp asked me to do. I can add the missing districs when i come back
(source).
At the moment the file contains states on different layers and districts on different layers, so a wide variety of options are available to diplay. Just turn off whichever is not needed. Right now the districts are at 70%opacity so you can see the state borders underneath --
PlaneMad|
YakYak
18:48, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Anything else to be decided or clarified on the project main page? =Nichalp «Talk»= 20:10, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm pleased to see Nichalp's SVG map has come on a long way! May I suggest an improvement? It would be extremely useful to have an India map with Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan on (with relevant subdivisions). Indian culture has greatly influenced these countries and the historical borders of India (or the states that made up India) have changed from time to time. Such an expanded map would be very useful for cultural and historical purposes. Thanks. Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 22:41, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
proposal:
I suggest uploading non text version on commons and uploading text versions to english wp with same filename -- PlaneMad| YakYak 09:43, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Here's a blank Delhi map showing state and district borders, rail and DMRC tracks, besides roads, parks etc. What do you guys think of the colour scheme? Light yellow could not be used for territory of primary interest because it makes the white roads almost invisible. Other colours are all the recommended ones. This would probably help up concretize standards for city maps. deeptrivia ( talk) 06:14, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
This is an Inkscape question. I've been trying to make the borders between districts (see district map on right) coincident by brute force. It doesn't work well and takes a lot of effort. I'm sure there must be a better way to do this. What should I be doing? deeptrivia ( talk) 05:49, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Please see this discussion. - Ganeshk ( talk) 20:42, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Crosspost from Nichalp's talk page: Good news. I finally found a solution for the locator. I saw this dicussion and found this. This template picks up lat and long values and places a locator dot. It is pretty cool. No calculation required. I used that template with the India map. Can you please take a look at this page and let me know if the cities are fairly accurate? - Ganeshk ( talk) 15:57, 23 June 2006 (UTC) Example: {{Location map|India|float=none|label=Chennai|lat=13.09|long=80.27|position=right}} produces:
- Ganeshk ( talk) 16:02, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Made from a comprehensive list of highways
[8], i had to exclude a few ( 103-107) cause i couldnt find its exact route. If you open the svg file, all the paths have been named according to its number, eg "nh4".
Also marked the gq and nsew routes and major cities. Finished marking important cities and tourist towns for Kerala and TN. Notice that rivers have been drawn.
PlaneMad|
YakYak
19:45, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm unhappy with the hashed lines used to mark the disputed areas on the map. When the image is thumbed, the hashes are hardly discernable. Could it be reverted back using the two separate colours? =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
We need a infobox/template to superimpose clickable city names over the locator map. See the following example:
Template:Infobox Indian Jurisdiction has superimposition information, so the process should be somewhat easier. Here are the input parameters:
latd1, latd2, location_name1, name_position (right/left)
The output should be a red dot and the corresponding wikitext on the svg map. =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:17, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
How about creating a template to be added to maps under this project? -- PlaneMad| YakYak 16:25, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Indicating the disputed areas was an eyesore in my previous map because it tends to clash with information on the map itself such as roads etc. After a bit of experimentation i settled on the scheme shown on this map . Why?
I find this to be the simplest base map with least NPOV issues and sufficient for making informative and thematic maps like i did before [9]. Im open to suggestions but i strictly oppose using more than two shading colors as it will conflict with thematic maps. If nobody has issues with this, i can go ahead and start churning out maps -- PlaneMad| YakYak 19:34, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
No, we would have to show different borders and shading for claimed areas. It otherwise, does not adhere to the Neutral Point of view, which is non-negotiable as decreed by Jimbo. A small price to pay for accurate maps. =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:39, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi guys, your comments are needed here -- Lost (talk) 20:16, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Something struck me today about the Punjab map. There doesn't appear to be 19 districts on it as written on Districts of Punjab (India). There are only 17 on the map as far as I can tell (it appears to be 18 but Kapurthala District is split into two). So that means at least two districts are missing! Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 19:38, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Sas nagar, earlier known as mohali was made a district in 2008
After some experimentation, this combination seems pleasing to the eye, all are light shades and can be distinguished easily.
Hex | RGB | Sample | Used for |
---|---|---|---|
#C1E8FB | 193,232,251 | Colour 1 | |
#F4DFEC | 244,223,236 | Colour 2 | |
#C6E3C3 | 198,227,195 | Colour 3 | |
#FFEABF | 255,234,191 | Colour 4 |
The map of West Bengal — Image:India West Bengal locator map.svg is not correct as it does not depict the districts of East Midnapur and West Midnapur, rather depicts one Midnapur district (as of 2001). Could anyone help to develope the proper map?
I have not been able to find out a map in the web depicting the two districts seperately. However, I found out a way to developr a proper map. Please see this map. Now go to this website, and download "List of AC Name" from "Download data". An excel file will be downloaded listing all the assembly constituencies with their districts. From this data and the map, a map showing east and west Midnapur can be developed. What do you people think? Please help. Regards.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 16:28, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
A correct png map of West Bengal is now available, Image:WestBengalDistrictscurrent.png. Can anyone help render the West Bengal locator map correctly using the png image as guide? Regards.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 15:42, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
I added a Image-class to the project banner. On talk-pages of Images, the following can be added, {{WP India|class=Image|maps=yes}}. It will produce:
![]() | India: Maps Redirect‑class | |||||||||
|
and the images will categorizied under Category:Image-Class India articles. Please add the banner to the talk pages of all India-related map images. -- Ganeshk ( talk) 16:37, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Just chanced upon this category containing articles requesting maps : Category:Wikipedia requested maps in India. Thought I'd bring it to the attention of the cartography dept.-- thunderboltz (Deepu) 17:13, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 15:15, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello all. I am working on an article titled Satellite Instructional Television Experiment. There are almost no free images available for use in the article. So the only substitute is good maps. While researching I came across this UN report. There is a very illustrative map on Pg. 15 of the report. I would be grateful to anyone who can create a map like that for the article. Regards, - Aksi_great ( talk) 10:59, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
A request from WP:HOI. I think a map showing various parties of the Revolt of 1857 will add a lot of clarity to the article. The map could be based on http://www.history.upenn.edu/coursepages/hist086/material/schmidt38a.jpg. Thanks, deeptrivia ( talk) 08:04, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:36, 29 December 2006 (UTC)