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I noticed TMF mentioned above that labeling of water features, cities, etc. took a long time. Well, hopefully this feature I found will help all of us QGIS users out: if you go to the Layer Properties dialog, there's a Labels tab. This tab lets you select one data field to be displayed as a label near the feature on the map. Sometimes it picks odd places to put the labels, but it seems to have some sort of collision detection that will automatically move conflicting labels around. Hope this is useful — I've found it works best for displaying county names. — Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 22:58, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
I don't understand the dilemma in creating maps for every major road. Why not just create a high resolution pre-labeled state maps of all major roads? It would be consistent and all the major roads can be easily cropped for their individual articles. 69.196.145.14 ( talk) 14:46, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way to either caption the marker or the map in {{ infobox road}}?-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 22:21, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
This page is part of WikiProject U.S. Roads. Rush Street is not under our scope; it's part of U.S. Streets. This project does not concern itself with local streets. — Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 23:23, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, I been gone a while and everyone might already know, but Firefox 3rc3 appears to not crash with SVG maps, although its not very dexterous with them, at least they load now :) Cheers. Strato| sphere 00:59, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm interested in making some maps for these road articles, but all these GIS data and file types seems confusing to me and I would have no idea how to turn it all into an .svg map for an article. Is there any sort of tutorial that I could use to get an idea how to make such maps? Thanks in advance! — Mr. Matté ( Talk/ Contrib) 16:29, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
I've been wondering if it were possible for some road articles to use maps. Roads such as Florida State Road 50A are incredibly short, and would be impossible to recognize on a map of the State of Florida. However, given the fact that the road is located in the center of Hernando County, Florida a close-up of the road would require a map with surroundings that wouldn't be recognizable outside the Tampa Bay Metropolitan Area. ---- DanTD ( talk) 02:24, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to create a map for Virginia State Route 28. My map currently looks like [1] - NHS roads, water, and county borders. My problem is with the colouring. How do I get the line representing 28 to become red, the line representing I-66 to become blue, the line representing Virginia State Route 267 to become green, etc. inside QGIS? (I posted this question on the Computing reference desk and I suppose I could do it in GIMP, but it sounds too labour-intensive.) Thanks in advance. Xenon 54 ( Frohe Feiertage!) 23:15, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
See User:Xenon54/Map tutorial. If it's possible, I'd like someone to check over it; otherwise, should I add it to the Resources section? Xenon54 ( talk) 18:23, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
I have been looking to create and to update some maps of my home state, Pennsylvania, but all the data I can find is from 2005 or earlier and does not include any of the major changes in US 220, I-99, or US-322. I have searched the sources suggested in the tutorial and on PennDOT's website with no help. Does anyone have any suggestion where I can find newer maps? Chris S ( talk) 19:50, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
The USER is granted permission to translate and add value to the FILES for the use of the FILES on its computer hardware; provided, however, that the USER annually notify the UNIVERSITY / COMMONWEALTH of any customizing or value-adding work done.
Any customized or value added versions of the files will contain the following disclaimer:
THIS IS NOT A PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION APPROVED FILE. THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION RETAINS THE MASTER FILES.
THE USER AGREES AND UNDERSTANDS THAT IT MAY NOT FURTHER DISTRIBUTE THE FILES TO A THIRD PARTY.
If you have any questions or problems, contact the ORGANIZATION where you acquired the data.
25or6to4 ( talk) 19:23, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
Anything published since 1989 is copyrighted by default, whether or not a notice is provided. This includes data produced by states. Whether or not a map produced with that data infringes on that copyright is a thorny issue, but the result is the same whether or not the data comes with a copyright notice. It's my understanding that, at the scale we are using for these maps, the lines are simply copies of what's on the earth, and thus have no copyright protection. For example, if you open
File:RI-37 map.svg in an SVG editor and zoom in, the lines become extremely imperfect, meaning that anything copyrightable is probably filtered out by the approximation process. There may be an issue if you use a "major roads" layer for which there is no definite criterion for inclusion, since the choice of which roads to include is copyrightable. --
NE2
19:53, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
I just finished creating my first map (and first SVG file), which is of U.S. Route 322 Business (State College, Pennsylvania). I would like someone experienced with creating maps to take a look at it and give me any suggestions that I could do it improve it and any future maps I may create. The main question I have is if it's necessary to include township borders on the map (the entire road is in Centre County, so county lines are not on the map). If so, is this information usually with the road data in the GIS data or is it an overlay I have to manually add? Thanks for the help in advance. Chris S ( talk) 05:53, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello. Creating maps, like keeping scores in sports, is not my forte. I don't know if I am in teh right place. If not, someone please point me in the right direction. I seek a map of PR-10 to add to the article's infobox. Thank you! I am Mercy11 ( talk) 03:10, 22 June 2010 (UTC) and I approve this message.
As stated above, the request pages is here. Thank you, Imzadi 1979 → 03:36, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
My bad; I failed to read all the way to the bottom. I have followed your directions. Thank you, Mercy11 ( talk) 22:07, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
See File:Map of NY Route 178.png or File:New York Route 458 Map with Labels.svg. I think having township lines, plus labels for each township, clutters up the map way too much. I also think having each hamlet, village, city, etc. in different shades of color is unnecessary. At the end of the day, we're making maps so that readers can quickly identify where the route is. Showing what levels of jurisdiction it goes through doesn't really add to a reader's understanding of that, and could be a bit distracting or confusing. I've commented as much to the creator of the maps; he disagrees. Thoughts? – T M F 00:56, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
I'll add a couple examples of what I did in Texas. file:Texas 3 map.svg shows a Texas highway about a county length. I added the towns for local reference, but also added an inset state map showing its location in the state. I set a voluntary road length limit of 50 miles before making the map an entire state map and excluding everything but a state shape and limited access roads file:Texas 16 map.svg, for size issues. 25or6to4 ( talk) 15:38, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
Opening up a separate section for the NY 458 map ( File:New York Route 458 Map with Labels.svg) since the discussion above is focusing more on NY 178. Here, it looks like the location labels have been traded for townships and town names, resulting in a ton of clutter. – T M F 16:10, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
The new map on NY 458 looks absolutely awful. Two points: the line strokes are way too wide, and I don't get why the new map covers a smaller area than the old one did. NY 178 suffers from the latter issue as well. – T M F 04:28, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
I've been following what's been said here, but didn't feel I had something to contribute until now. These are meant to be roadmaps that are meant to be legible at 290 px of width in the infobox. It's great that someone can click the map to get a larger view of it, but the primary purpose of the map is the 290-pixel view in the infobox. If it can't be understood at that size, the map is worthless. As for other maps, please understand something, that unless a size is specified, the default thumbnail view is around 200 pixels. Editors with accounts can specify a personal default in their preferences (mine is 300 px) but any additional maps should be created with this in mind. If a map for the body of an article isn't designed to be shrunk to 220 px with clairity, then that map needs another size specified. If extraneous labels or if the boundary lines for smaller geographic subdivisions clutters the map, they should not be included. MDOT doesn't include township lines on the statewide map, so the only boundaries they used are county lines, and city outlines for the larger cities. There's a reason for that, and that's to reduce unnecessary clutter. Keep that concept in mind when creating your maps, or when the article gets to higher assessment levels, the map will need to be redone to pass those reviews. Imzadi 1979 → 17:11, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey MTF, as far as WP:USRD goes, the state of Arkansas seems to be one of the neglected projects. (Maybe these are related.) I have been trying very hard to get the articles created, but it takes lots and lots of time. The maps here are all I have to use in terms of article creation and citations. The state highway system is not very well covered. But I was wondering if someone could help me find some data to use for Arkansas highway maps. I would like to include some maps in the articles that I create. The data that I have been able to find only has Interstates, U.S. Routes and "major" state highways. I would like to make maps for all routes, however. Could someone pleae help out the state of Arkansas? Brandonrush Woo pig sooie 22:51, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Priority for Arkansas should be expanding articles to B-Class and working on eliminating the errors, such as phantom concurrencies, that seem to plague that state's articles. Currently, only Georgia and Puerto Rico are worse than Arkansas when it comes to article ratings. Maps are a nice addition to a well-written article, but focusing on maps before the articles are ready to support them is putting the cart before the horse. — Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 03:34, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Background: I been editing the Dominican National Highway System for the past year now and i been trying to improve the articles little by little as i have time and try to find sources. Lately I been stuck at the fact that I don't know what Mapping or Modeling Software to use to create these maps and here is where my questions come along...
1)What Map Software, if any, can i Use to create a series of Standardized Maps for the Dominican highways DR-1, DR-2, DR-3,etc? is there any particular one the group prefers?
2)Is it okay if I choose to use the Same U.S Road Map Standards for the Dominican Republic's NHS. The Standards are convenient and well-established for more than 5,000 maps so I see this as a convenient move...Is that okay?
I'll await a response. Thank you! EdwinCasadoBaez ( talk) 16:30, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Also, if you have some success finding GIS data and getting QGIS/Inkscape to work for you, please show us the results. I love it when maps are so good people can't believe they're made from freely available data. – Fredddie ™ 04:14, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you guys for the support. i'm going to start learning how to deal with QGIS as soon as my left-hand wrist heals up again, i recently fractured it but i'm looking forward to becoming good at this. I'll make sure i show my results :) EdwinCasadoBaez ( talk) 06:10, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Noticed a lot of maps tend to resemble the USA in Pilotwings64, with Canada as an ocean. I have the shapefiles for the province of Ontario and its road network (the former is not large, the latter is about 150mb). I've also sent in a form to the Ministry of Natural Resources to get an unrestricted license to access the GIS data for every province in Canada. If anyone is up to either making the updates or explaining how I use these things, I'm happy to share the files (and will soon have the legal rights to distribute them). - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 18:55, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Recently, I have seen the WikiProject U.S. Roads banner tag "needs KML file". That tag's expression includes a link to Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Maps task force, which page does not explain kml files. Because some (many ?) users may not be familiar with kml files, would it be a good idea to also have that tag's expression link the term "KML file" to an appropriate explanation? -- Bejnar ( talk) 14:59, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Didn't see this in the archives. I-81 between the northern I-64 junction and West Virginia is missing on the I-81 Virginia map. Mapsax ( talk) 13:26, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
As KMLs continue to proliferate (yay!), I'm wondering if there will soon come a time when we have all or most of the highways hooked to one. Given that some states have no GIS centreline data, and others have what seems like a half-a.... well, government, set of shapefiles.
I no longer have ArcGIS installed, but I recall an option to import KMLs into your map. This may be a simpler (though more time-involved, making all those KMLs) solution for those who are overwhelmed by GIS software. - Floydian τ ¢ 07:42, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
So I made my first KML file for Interstate 84 in Idaho, could someone tell me if I did it correctly (if the line is thick enough, precise enough etc.) Thewombatguru ( talk) 10:16, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
|needs-KML=no
is set. If the banner doesn't automatically update, try purging or performing a null edit on the talk page to force it to update. That will update the categories.
Imzadi 1979
→
01:13, 4 May 2014 (UTC)File:Great River Road map.svg opens fine in Inkscape, but renders blank. -- NE2 10:02, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
Is there any way to view or download a bunch of KML files at once for quality control/error checking purposes? -- NE2 17:07, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
How do I represent a one-way pair? Would two paths with names 'eastbound' and 'westbound' work, like I did on U.S. Route 460 in Virginia? -- NE2 22:01, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
I cleaned up the topology of the NHPN data a bit and uploaded a KML file for the entire IHS ( view on the Goog). For several reasons I'm not linking to it in the article:
However, it is good enough for small-scale mapping (for which you'd probably want to filter out all future routes). -- NE2 02:03, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
I'm trying to create KML maps for roads in Prince Edward Island since as far as I can tell only one road is mapped, but I can't seem to get my KML format to render properly. I tried following the tutorial here and I have successfully created files that render in Google Maps (not through wmflabs) and Google Earth, but they do not render properly through the {{ Attached KML}} template. The one road I'm mostly working on at the moment is Prince Edward Island Route 2. After I've formatted my KML file and pasted into the attachment template I can click on the links in the article, but with Google I get gibberish (a small block centered somewhere in the Caribbean with lines everywhere) and with Bing I get nothing at all, just a plain map centered on my location with no route lines on it.
After I went through a few rounds of trying different settings from Google Earth I gave up and just copied a KML that seems to be working, first from U.S. Route 50 then from Ontario Highway 401, and pasted the coordinates from my KML into that file, but that doesn't work either. I also noticed while testing that even those working files don't render in Bing, so maybe that tool is just broken?
Anyway, wondering if one of you experts can have a look at what I've been up to and suggest something that I might be doing wrong? Thanks in advance. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 18:23, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
|display=title,inline
) as in NY 79 article. Anyway, I would wait until this is resolved before adding any more KML.
Chinissai (
talk)
19:14, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
Greetings Map Department.
I've mapped the roadside historical markers in Ulster County, NY, arguably one of the most significant contributions to collecing world knowledge on Wikipedia. But my map doesn't work so well -- a) it's in German, b) opens centered on Russia and c) seems to have a place marker around Sao Tome and Príncipe of the coast of Africa. A little help? I'll then do some maps for all of us. Thanks in advance, -- HighAtop94 ( talk) 15:21, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
{{
GeoGroup}}
. It does all the hard work for you. I've already swapped it out. –
Fredddie
™
01:36, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
Primarily pinging @ Fredddie since the tutorial was just updated by him. The recommended standard for business route line color on interactive maps is green (same as toll roads). In the past, however, when I've used on hardcoded maps red for the subject route and green for a nearby toll road, it was confusing for red-green color blind users since the subject and toll routes would look the same. The only featured article that has more than one color on the map is M-553 with blue as the second route's color on the map. I would recommend that we state blue should be the first secondary color for any special routes / former routes. After that, maybe the colors for subsequent colors be purple, darker pink, and darker grey to provide contrast against the lighter colored map. — Mr. Matté ( Talk/ Contrib) 12:32, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 |
I noticed TMF mentioned above that labeling of water features, cities, etc. took a long time. Well, hopefully this feature I found will help all of us QGIS users out: if you go to the Layer Properties dialog, there's a Labels tab. This tab lets you select one data field to be displayed as a label near the feature on the map. Sometimes it picks odd places to put the labels, but it seems to have some sort of collision detection that will automatically move conflicting labels around. Hope this is useful — I've found it works best for displaying county names. — Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 22:58, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
I don't understand the dilemma in creating maps for every major road. Why not just create a high resolution pre-labeled state maps of all major roads? It would be consistent and all the major roads can be easily cropped for their individual articles. 69.196.145.14 ( talk) 14:46, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way to either caption the marker or the map in {{ infobox road}}?-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 22:21, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
This page is part of WikiProject U.S. Roads. Rush Street is not under our scope; it's part of U.S. Streets. This project does not concern itself with local streets. — Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 23:23, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, I been gone a while and everyone might already know, but Firefox 3rc3 appears to not crash with SVG maps, although its not very dexterous with them, at least they load now :) Cheers. Strato| sphere 00:59, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm interested in making some maps for these road articles, but all these GIS data and file types seems confusing to me and I would have no idea how to turn it all into an .svg map for an article. Is there any sort of tutorial that I could use to get an idea how to make such maps? Thanks in advance! — Mr. Matté ( Talk/ Contrib) 16:29, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
I've been wondering if it were possible for some road articles to use maps. Roads such as Florida State Road 50A are incredibly short, and would be impossible to recognize on a map of the State of Florida. However, given the fact that the road is located in the center of Hernando County, Florida a close-up of the road would require a map with surroundings that wouldn't be recognizable outside the Tampa Bay Metropolitan Area. ---- DanTD ( talk) 02:24, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to create a map for Virginia State Route 28. My map currently looks like [1] - NHS roads, water, and county borders. My problem is with the colouring. How do I get the line representing 28 to become red, the line representing I-66 to become blue, the line representing Virginia State Route 267 to become green, etc. inside QGIS? (I posted this question on the Computing reference desk and I suppose I could do it in GIMP, but it sounds too labour-intensive.) Thanks in advance. Xenon 54 ( Frohe Feiertage!) 23:15, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
See User:Xenon54/Map tutorial. If it's possible, I'd like someone to check over it; otherwise, should I add it to the Resources section? Xenon54 ( talk) 18:23, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
I have been looking to create and to update some maps of my home state, Pennsylvania, but all the data I can find is from 2005 or earlier and does not include any of the major changes in US 220, I-99, or US-322. I have searched the sources suggested in the tutorial and on PennDOT's website with no help. Does anyone have any suggestion where I can find newer maps? Chris S ( talk) 19:50, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
The USER is granted permission to translate and add value to the FILES for the use of the FILES on its computer hardware; provided, however, that the USER annually notify the UNIVERSITY / COMMONWEALTH of any customizing or value-adding work done.
Any customized or value added versions of the files will contain the following disclaimer:
THIS IS NOT A PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION APPROVED FILE. THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION RETAINS THE MASTER FILES.
THE USER AGREES AND UNDERSTANDS THAT IT MAY NOT FURTHER DISTRIBUTE THE FILES TO A THIRD PARTY.
If you have any questions or problems, contact the ORGANIZATION where you acquired the data.
25or6to4 ( talk) 19:23, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
Anything published since 1989 is copyrighted by default, whether or not a notice is provided. This includes data produced by states. Whether or not a map produced with that data infringes on that copyright is a thorny issue, but the result is the same whether or not the data comes with a copyright notice. It's my understanding that, at the scale we are using for these maps, the lines are simply copies of what's on the earth, and thus have no copyright protection. For example, if you open
File:RI-37 map.svg in an SVG editor and zoom in, the lines become extremely imperfect, meaning that anything copyrightable is probably filtered out by the approximation process. There may be an issue if you use a "major roads" layer for which there is no definite criterion for inclusion, since the choice of which roads to include is copyrightable. --
NE2
19:53, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
I just finished creating my first map (and first SVG file), which is of U.S. Route 322 Business (State College, Pennsylvania). I would like someone experienced with creating maps to take a look at it and give me any suggestions that I could do it improve it and any future maps I may create. The main question I have is if it's necessary to include township borders on the map (the entire road is in Centre County, so county lines are not on the map). If so, is this information usually with the road data in the GIS data or is it an overlay I have to manually add? Thanks for the help in advance. Chris S ( talk) 05:53, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello. Creating maps, like keeping scores in sports, is not my forte. I don't know if I am in teh right place. If not, someone please point me in the right direction. I seek a map of PR-10 to add to the article's infobox. Thank you! I am Mercy11 ( talk) 03:10, 22 June 2010 (UTC) and I approve this message.
As stated above, the request pages is here. Thank you, Imzadi 1979 → 03:36, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
My bad; I failed to read all the way to the bottom. I have followed your directions. Thank you, Mercy11 ( talk) 22:07, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
See File:Map of NY Route 178.png or File:New York Route 458 Map with Labels.svg. I think having township lines, plus labels for each township, clutters up the map way too much. I also think having each hamlet, village, city, etc. in different shades of color is unnecessary. At the end of the day, we're making maps so that readers can quickly identify where the route is. Showing what levels of jurisdiction it goes through doesn't really add to a reader's understanding of that, and could be a bit distracting or confusing. I've commented as much to the creator of the maps; he disagrees. Thoughts? – T M F 00:56, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
I'll add a couple examples of what I did in Texas. file:Texas 3 map.svg shows a Texas highway about a county length. I added the towns for local reference, but also added an inset state map showing its location in the state. I set a voluntary road length limit of 50 miles before making the map an entire state map and excluding everything but a state shape and limited access roads file:Texas 16 map.svg, for size issues. 25or6to4 ( talk) 15:38, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
Opening up a separate section for the NY 458 map ( File:New York Route 458 Map with Labels.svg) since the discussion above is focusing more on NY 178. Here, it looks like the location labels have been traded for townships and town names, resulting in a ton of clutter. – T M F 16:10, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
The new map on NY 458 looks absolutely awful. Two points: the line strokes are way too wide, and I don't get why the new map covers a smaller area than the old one did. NY 178 suffers from the latter issue as well. – T M F 04:28, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
I've been following what's been said here, but didn't feel I had something to contribute until now. These are meant to be roadmaps that are meant to be legible at 290 px of width in the infobox. It's great that someone can click the map to get a larger view of it, but the primary purpose of the map is the 290-pixel view in the infobox. If it can't be understood at that size, the map is worthless. As for other maps, please understand something, that unless a size is specified, the default thumbnail view is around 200 pixels. Editors with accounts can specify a personal default in their preferences (mine is 300 px) but any additional maps should be created with this in mind. If a map for the body of an article isn't designed to be shrunk to 220 px with clairity, then that map needs another size specified. If extraneous labels or if the boundary lines for smaller geographic subdivisions clutters the map, they should not be included. MDOT doesn't include township lines on the statewide map, so the only boundaries they used are county lines, and city outlines for the larger cities. There's a reason for that, and that's to reduce unnecessary clutter. Keep that concept in mind when creating your maps, or when the article gets to higher assessment levels, the map will need to be redone to pass those reviews. Imzadi 1979 → 17:11, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey MTF, as far as WP:USRD goes, the state of Arkansas seems to be one of the neglected projects. (Maybe these are related.) I have been trying very hard to get the articles created, but it takes lots and lots of time. The maps here are all I have to use in terms of article creation and citations. The state highway system is not very well covered. But I was wondering if someone could help me find some data to use for Arkansas highway maps. I would like to include some maps in the articles that I create. The data that I have been able to find only has Interstates, U.S. Routes and "major" state highways. I would like to make maps for all routes, however. Could someone pleae help out the state of Arkansas? Brandonrush Woo pig sooie 22:51, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Priority for Arkansas should be expanding articles to B-Class and working on eliminating the errors, such as phantom concurrencies, that seem to plague that state's articles. Currently, only Georgia and Puerto Rico are worse than Arkansas when it comes to article ratings. Maps are a nice addition to a well-written article, but focusing on maps before the articles are ready to support them is putting the cart before the horse. — Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 03:34, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Background: I been editing the Dominican National Highway System for the past year now and i been trying to improve the articles little by little as i have time and try to find sources. Lately I been stuck at the fact that I don't know what Mapping or Modeling Software to use to create these maps and here is where my questions come along...
1)What Map Software, if any, can i Use to create a series of Standardized Maps for the Dominican highways DR-1, DR-2, DR-3,etc? is there any particular one the group prefers?
2)Is it okay if I choose to use the Same U.S Road Map Standards for the Dominican Republic's NHS. The Standards are convenient and well-established for more than 5,000 maps so I see this as a convenient move...Is that okay?
I'll await a response. Thank you! EdwinCasadoBaez ( talk) 16:30, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Also, if you have some success finding GIS data and getting QGIS/Inkscape to work for you, please show us the results. I love it when maps are so good people can't believe they're made from freely available data. – Fredddie ™ 04:14, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you guys for the support. i'm going to start learning how to deal with QGIS as soon as my left-hand wrist heals up again, i recently fractured it but i'm looking forward to becoming good at this. I'll make sure i show my results :) EdwinCasadoBaez ( talk) 06:10, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Noticed a lot of maps tend to resemble the USA in Pilotwings64, with Canada as an ocean. I have the shapefiles for the province of Ontario and its road network (the former is not large, the latter is about 150mb). I've also sent in a form to the Ministry of Natural Resources to get an unrestricted license to access the GIS data for every province in Canada. If anyone is up to either making the updates or explaining how I use these things, I'm happy to share the files (and will soon have the legal rights to distribute them). - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 18:55, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Recently, I have seen the WikiProject U.S. Roads banner tag "needs KML file". That tag's expression includes a link to Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Maps task force, which page does not explain kml files. Because some (many ?) users may not be familiar with kml files, would it be a good idea to also have that tag's expression link the term "KML file" to an appropriate explanation? -- Bejnar ( talk) 14:59, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Didn't see this in the archives. I-81 between the northern I-64 junction and West Virginia is missing on the I-81 Virginia map. Mapsax ( talk) 13:26, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
As KMLs continue to proliferate (yay!), I'm wondering if there will soon come a time when we have all or most of the highways hooked to one. Given that some states have no GIS centreline data, and others have what seems like a half-a.... well, government, set of shapefiles.
I no longer have ArcGIS installed, but I recall an option to import KMLs into your map. This may be a simpler (though more time-involved, making all those KMLs) solution for those who are overwhelmed by GIS software. - Floydian τ ¢ 07:42, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
So I made my first KML file for Interstate 84 in Idaho, could someone tell me if I did it correctly (if the line is thick enough, precise enough etc.) Thewombatguru ( talk) 10:16, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
|needs-KML=no
is set. If the banner doesn't automatically update, try purging or performing a null edit on the talk page to force it to update. That will update the categories.
Imzadi 1979
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01:13, 4 May 2014 (UTC)File:Great River Road map.svg opens fine in Inkscape, but renders blank. -- NE2 10:02, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
Is there any way to view or download a bunch of KML files at once for quality control/error checking purposes? -- NE2 17:07, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
How do I represent a one-way pair? Would two paths with names 'eastbound' and 'westbound' work, like I did on U.S. Route 460 in Virginia? -- NE2 22:01, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
I cleaned up the topology of the NHPN data a bit and uploaded a KML file for the entire IHS ( view on the Goog). For several reasons I'm not linking to it in the article:
However, it is good enough for small-scale mapping (for which you'd probably want to filter out all future routes). -- NE2 02:03, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
I'm trying to create KML maps for roads in Prince Edward Island since as far as I can tell only one road is mapped, but I can't seem to get my KML format to render properly. I tried following the tutorial here and I have successfully created files that render in Google Maps (not through wmflabs) and Google Earth, but they do not render properly through the {{ Attached KML}} template. The one road I'm mostly working on at the moment is Prince Edward Island Route 2. After I've formatted my KML file and pasted into the attachment template I can click on the links in the article, but with Google I get gibberish (a small block centered somewhere in the Caribbean with lines everywhere) and with Bing I get nothing at all, just a plain map centered on my location with no route lines on it.
After I went through a few rounds of trying different settings from Google Earth I gave up and just copied a KML that seems to be working, first from U.S. Route 50 then from Ontario Highway 401, and pasted the coordinates from my KML into that file, but that doesn't work either. I also noticed while testing that even those working files don't render in Bing, so maybe that tool is just broken?
Anyway, wondering if one of you experts can have a look at what I've been up to and suggest something that I might be doing wrong? Thanks in advance. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 18:23, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
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Chinissai (
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19:14, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
Greetings Map Department.
I've mapped the roadside historical markers in Ulster County, NY, arguably one of the most significant contributions to collecing world knowledge on Wikipedia. But my map doesn't work so well -- a) it's in German, b) opens centered on Russia and c) seems to have a place marker around Sao Tome and Príncipe of the coast of Africa. A little help? I'll then do some maps for all of us. Thanks in advance, -- HighAtop94 ( talk) 15:21, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
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Fredddie
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01:36, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
Primarily pinging @ Fredddie since the tutorial was just updated by him. The recommended standard for business route line color on interactive maps is green (same as toll roads). In the past, however, when I've used on hardcoded maps red for the subject route and green for a nearby toll road, it was confusing for red-green color blind users since the subject and toll routes would look the same. The only featured article that has more than one color on the map is M-553 with blue as the second route's color on the map. I would recommend that we state blue should be the first secondary color for any special routes / former routes. After that, maybe the colors for subsequent colors be purple, darker pink, and darker grey to provide contrast against the lighter colored map. — Mr. Matté ( Talk/ Contrib) 12:32, 18 September 2022 (UTC)