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This workshop is part of the Graphics Lab, a project aimed at picture retouching to improve the graphical content of the Wikimedia projects. More information about the lab can be found on its main page and requests pages (Illustrations ; Photographs ; Maps ; Video and Sound). To ask questions or make a suggestions, see the talk page of the graphic lab page.

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Simple map(s) of Finnish Defence Forces Areas of Responsibility from early 1950s

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  A potential base map

Article(s): en:User:Ljleppan/Polttoainehankinta

Request

(Moved from Commons:File requests)

I'm not certain what the best source map would be, but I'd appreciate a Commons-compatible version of the map of Figure 6 (page 37) of this PDF (also accessible via this link) for the draft currently at en:User:Ljleppan/Polttoainehankinta. In addition to the Areas of Responsibility, it would be good to show the locations of en:Helsinki, en:Porkkala and a few of the larger cities (Perhaps en:Turku, en:Vaasa, en:Oulu, en:Rovaniemi and en:Ivalo if possible without sacrificing legibility?).

I'd also greatly appreciate Commons-version of the map(s) in Figure 5 (page 31) of the same PDF, but that's less of a priority.

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Puerto Rico

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Article(s): Hawaiʻi on Wiktionary; A lot

Request

I suggest adding Puerto Rico to the United States, unless it's not part of the United States.

Puerto Rico is part of the United States. People wonder why many Americans don't know it- well there's your answer. Just because "(US50)" appears in the title doesn't change how this image is actually used- see Hawaiʻi on Wiktionary. The caption there reads: "Hawaii in respect to the rest of the United States". You're giving people a stupid map that would need to be presented in a qualified way, and then that map is being used to imply that this is a map of the whole USA. You now get to choose whether WMF will continue to deceptively imply that Puerto Rico is somehow not part of the United States. Don't bring your decolonization ideological stuff at me when Russia still has Siberia and China has Tibet. As if! Yes Puerto Rico has got a special status. But they voted to become a state a few years ago (it wasn't accepted by the US Congress yet, this is just a fact that tends to discredit any "decolonization" ideological silliness). So Yes, it's the USA. Get off your high horse and show the people the full United States. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 22:26, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

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• There are locator maps of Puerto Rico within the United States, similar to the above locator map of Hawaii. Take a look at the following maps:

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  Puerto Rico in United States (zoom + special marker) (US49)
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  Puerto Rico in United States (zoom + special marker) (US49+1)
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  Puerto Rico in United States (zoom) (US49)
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  Puerto Rico in United States (zoom) (US49+1)

• Also, you should not blame WMF for ignoring Puerto Rico as part of the US. It is generally not shown along with the 50 states and the federal district as US overseas territories are excluded from most maps. There's no "decolonization" ideology whatsoever on this matter, just a matter of convention. --Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 16:52, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

@Geographyinitiative: Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 15:51, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Pardon me, my comment above is a little bit intense! All I mean is that I feel that 1) if Puerto Rico appears on a map, 2) and the map does not show Puerto Rico as part of the USA, 3) then there should be a good reason, or a specific purpose for that map, rather than as a general map "of the USA". Hence I renew my request for the update to that map showing Hawai'i without showing Puerto Rico as part of the USA. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 16:16, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

In Description of first image, the position of the Hawaiian Archipelago inside the box is wrong. The islands need to turned to their correct geographical position. --Multituberculata (talk) 20:38, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Taiwan Strait median line

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Article(s): Taiwan Strait

Request

There is no high quality map of the median line of the Taiwan Strait on Wikimedia Commons or on Wikipedia (the only ones I can find are these I've just uploaded and added here); such a map should be produced.

(1) Here is a pdf that shows the median line of the Taiwan Strait: [2]. (2) Here is a discussion of the median line on Wikipedia: Taiwan_Strait#Median_line. (3) Here is a Wiktionary article with five reliable sources discussing the line: [3].--Geographyinitiative (talk) 18:33, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

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Geographyinitiative So you want a svg version showing the Strait, without the different flight paths? --please ping me-- Goran tek-en (talk) 16:42, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

@Geographyinitiative I need your feedback on my questions above, thanks. --please ping me-- Goran tek-en (talk) 15:50, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

ethnic and linguistic maps of the Caucasus

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Article(s): [[]]

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Please update these maps due to the w:flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians. Initially, it would be better to mark this area as uninhabited, because according to the UN there are between 50 and 1,000 people left.

The second thing is to add a "spot" of Greeks near the city of w:Yessentuki to the first map. --Swiãtopôłk (talk) 16:44, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

All of Nagorno-Karabakh and the striped areas around it, need to be colored in striped green and white, because almost all Armenians fled the region in September/October 2023, but has still not been populated by Azerbaijani civilians in the striped areas, after Azerbaijan gained it in late 2020. The whole region is patrolled by Azerbaijani troops and police, who are the only human presence, hence why the whole region needs to be colored both in green and white stripes, rather than just in green or just in white. --Multituberculata (talk) 20:54, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

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Update the Map

Data - https://dahd.nic.in/hi/related-links/annex-ii-8-gist-state-legislations-cow-slaughter

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Update the map and add the states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh in red. Data from [4]--103.241.226.199 06:23, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Both maps of India also need to include the new borders of the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, which were created in 2019, and the borders of the State of Telangana, which was created in 2014. --Multituberculata (talk) 19:19, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

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Update map of NCAA D-I men's hockey locations

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  Map showing the locations of all NCAA Division I men's college ice hockey teams

Article(s): en:List of NCAA Division I ice hockey programs

Request

This map needs to be updated with current locations listed at en:List of NCAA Division I ice hockey programs#Men

--R.L (talk) 17:54, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

I have created an updated version of this map. I am not able to overwrite the previous file for some reason. The updated file is uploaded here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_-_College_Hockey_-_all_men%27s_D-I_locations_-_2025.svg Kingkoch32 (talk) 20:49, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

It appears I will be able to upload in 4 days. Kingkoch32 (talk) 20:55, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

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3 images need fixing

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  Artsakh needs removing
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  Saint Kitts and Nevis, Jamaica and Fiji need to be grey as they have no official Railways
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  Artsakh is being dissolved, Ukraine and Moldova have left Commonwealth of Independent States and CISFTA

Article(s)

en:International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, en:List of track gauges, en:Collective Security Treaty Organization

Request

(I have listed underneath the 3 images what needs fixing.) --HelpfulHens (talk) 16:54, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

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Update of the maps of India, which need to include the borders of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Telangana.

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Article(s): Hundreds of articles across Wikipedia.

Request

The internal borders of India urgently need to be updated. The borders of the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh which were created in 2019, and the borders of the State of Telangana, which was created in 2014, need to be drawn in the maps of India, which are very widely used in hundreds of articles across Wikipedia. These maps are categorized under the Category:SVG locator maps of states in India (red location map scheme). --Multituberculata (talk) 19:41, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

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Transnistria maps

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  Artsakh needs removing
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  Artsakh needs removing

Article(s)

en:International recognition of Transnistria, en:Foreign relations of Transnistria

Request

I have added the info above.

(details of your request go here...) --HelpfulHens (talk) 20:07, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

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4 maps of Cuban municipalities with colouring pbms for islands

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  1) Municipality of Morón in Ciego de Ávila province
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  2) Municipality of Bolivia in Ciego de Ávila province
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  3) Municipality of Esmeralda in Camagüey prov.
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  4) Municipality of Nuevitas in Camagüey prov.

Article(s): fr:Morón (Cuba), fr:Esmeralda (Cuba), fr:Nuevitas, fr:Bolivia (Cuba) (all already in use)

Request

Hello you people who do such wonderful work, can you please help with that one ? The pbms are with the colouring of the islands (red, yellow, or absence thereof). (The refs are all maps in openstreet showing the municipalities' limits and the islands' limits.)

Start with checking on map 4 "Nuevitas" because the red colouring of the islands makes it easier to sort out. In that map, at that scale, we see roughly what looks like 4 of them red islands + a sort of peninsula west of them that's (righfully) attached to Nuevitas municipality by being in red too. Add to that the island in white, on the left of them red ones, and that gives the following list from west to east :

• cayo Coco, the island in white in map 4 and in red in map 1. It is with Morón. This one has the proper colour in all 4 maps but I mention it in case you decide to spend some time checking what's what. Knowing what this one is, will help.
• cayo Romano Occidental. It belongs to Morón, so :

map 1: it should be in red (not in white).

map 2: it should be in yellow (not in white).

map 3: it should be in white (not in yellow).

map 4: it should be in white (not in red).

• cayo Romano Oriental is with Esmeralda. It's the island that's got on its north side a long thin island which is cayo Cruz, so we can't get that one wrong. But also : it's taken me a while to sort out that the blob on its right, the one that looks (rather loosely) like an elephant with a bloated trump turned towards the left, is supposed to represent cayo Romano Oriental too (determined that by careful comparing of municipalities limits aligned with them cayos, + cayo Romano Oriental is almost 3 times the length of cayo Romano Occidental so that fits these maps too). So :

map 1 and map 2: both blobs ok in white.

map 3: both blobs should be in red (not in yellow).

map 4: both blobs should be in yellow (not in red).

• cayo Guajaba is with Nuevitas. This one has the proper colour in all 4 maps.
• cayo Sabinal (the "sort of peninsula") is with Nuevitas. This one has the proper colour in all 4 maps.

Of course all the maps for all municipalities in Ciego de Ávila province and in Camagüey province also show the wrong colours for these islands but at least there is no red involved so it doesn't show so much. Besides that, in all the maps, Guáimaro municipality is shown to go all the way to the sea, which it doesn't (see fr:Guáimaro where I added a comment in that sense). For the municipalities in Camagüey province, each of them has a handy section "Municipalités voisines" with a table that gives links to all neighbouring places, + with the corresponding map in each, so you can jump from one to the next without having to go back to commons each time. I just finished that, will do Ciego de Ávila province next.

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Many thanks to whomever will accept to take the time so sort out these 4 maps' colours. --Pueblo89 (talk) 05:59, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

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 Request taken by --please ping me-- Goran tek-en (talk) 16:48, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

@Pueblo89 I will create 4 new maps in svg as it's hard to see on the png's and it's a better format.

I will need your feedback in some time, will ping you, thanks. --please ping me-- Goran tek-en (talk) 17:05, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

@Pueblo89

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Those drafts are PNG versions of the original SVG file I'm working in and will upload to commons.

Those drafts are shown for proofreading only.

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Hi, you really did a great organized request but now when I have a more detailed svg map like this

Empty map draft it's very hard for me transfer your information. Also it seems like the municipals borders are a bit different on this svg map than on the png sources.

• Would it be possible for you in some way give me information for each of the four maps what to color with what without referring to the png's?

The links to OSM are great and I do understand it will be some work for you? --please ping me-- Goran tek-en (talk) 18:01, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

@Pueblo89 I really need to know if you will provide the needed info for me to complete the svg maps?

If not, I will have to withdraw my take as I can't help you then. --please ping me-- Goran tek-en (talk) 10:41, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

@Pueblo89: As I don't get any feedback from you I have to withdraw my take. --please ping me-- Goran tek-en (talk) 11:25, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello Goran tek-en, all my apologies: I had to take a rather long leave of absence. Am half back now. Are you still around? Pueblo89 (talk) 15:06, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

@Pueblo89 OK, hope you are all right, or on the way, respect that things do take time to recover from. Yes, we can continue but I will need your help/knowledge all the way. --please ping me-- Goran tek-en (talk) 16:29, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Goran tek-en, nice to see you're still around, and most grateful that you are still willing to work on that, thank you very much. As now demonstrated, I'm only half back so answers may take some days to come up. But i promise that they won't take more than 2 weeks (if health keeps up on my side - know that if i don't hold on to that it'll be because I'm decidedly back in hospital where comms are cut off). Sorry for that, the damn thing is really non-previsible so far.

The "Empty map draft" link is dead (fair enough!), can't see what differences there are with the municipal borders.

If you would be kind enough to let me know what you need, I'll try my best to provide answer/s.

Best regards Pueblo89 (talk) 13:23, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@Pueblo89 This png is a rendered png from the svg that I will work in.

So this is what I have as base map and I would need you to refer to that when telling what island/area to color in what color.

Looks neater than what I worked with, good.

I don't know if you have the possibility to download and make a color mark, number or other for which area to color, then you can email it to me. If not I will find another way for you but that would be best. Please remember that I have zero knowledge of this topic, thanks. --please ping me-- Goran tek-en (talk) 17:33, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

email would be easiest, only I don't know where to find your email. I'm poorly equipped with that sort of thing (being from the previous millenium), can't see yours and can't/don't know how to put mine up in a safe way. Can make up a random provisional email address which I can publish here, but you'd have to mail something to it +/- within the hour (am online for another hour or so), so I can mail you back my proper email address and we can gop from there. Here is one: trun63+bo3ltjshu46s8@sharklasers.com.

Once that's done, you'll have to give me some time (like 1 to 3 days maybe) to upload the map and mark it with the names we'll need, also what colour goes where exactly. It's been a while since I looked at Cuba, want to check that I did not make mistakes in my description here above. Also need to check boundaries, they are more precise in your map so i want to check that i recognize everything. Pueblo89 (talk) 18:50, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@Pueblo89 Please always ping me so I surely see your posts.

If you go to my userpage here in this link, on the left side there is one heading Tools and under that you can find a link saying Email this user.

If you click on that you can send me an email by commons and when I replay to that you will get my email, thanks. --please ping me-- Goran tek-en (talk) 13:41, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Goran tek-en, all my apologies for not having ping'ed you, so annoying when people don't do it - sorry.

I'm setting up an email address for me, so I can see yours. Pueblo89 (talk) 14:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Goran tek-en, (update 1) I'se sent you an email via wiki and I'm making a start on the map. Simple job (I'm crass at that sort of things, not like you), plain writing for the names of places, in different colours; and lines accordingly coloured joining the names to the places. No other colours: I've tried, it just makes a mess. Pueblo89 (talk) 18:42, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Goran tek-en, (update 2) done the map.

And added a new twist which I had previously missed: the large archipelago "Jardines de la Reina" on the south coast of Cuba is also divided between Ciego de Avila and Camagüey provinces, so I've surrounded each part and labelled them accordingly ; each part sould be either yellow or white, according to which map you're on - but none of it should be in red, contrary to what it shows in map 3 here above. The three other maps also got that one wrong:

• map 1 (Moron, Ciego de Avila) puts it all in white, when the north-west part of it should be yellow.
• map 2 (Bolivia, Ciego de Ávila) puts it all in white, when the north-west part of it should be yellow.
• map 3 (Esmeralda, Camagüey) puts it all in red, when the north-west part of it should be white and the south-east part should be yellow.
• map 4 (Nuevitas, Camagüey) puts the whole archipelago in yellow, when the north-west part of it should be white (in Ciego de Avila) and the south-east part in yellow (Camagüey).

Am also gathering here all the maps needed to check each and every municipality and island concerned :

• Morón municip. (Ciego de Ávila prov.), with:
  • cayo Coco (for unknown reason, this map does center on cayo Coco but it's decided to not highlight the limits. I'd have been surprised if everything had gone without a glitch. All the others below are fine.)
  • cayo Romano occidental
• (in between : Bolivia municip. (Ciego de Ávila prov.))
• Esmeralda municip. (Camagüey prov.), with:
  • cayo Romano Oriental (not labelled on the map)
  • cayo Cruz
• (in between : Sierra de Cubita municip. (Camagüey prov.))
• (in between : Minas municip. (Camagüey prov.))
• Nuevitas municip. (Camagüey prov.), with:
  • cayo Guajaba
  • cayo Sabinal

Apart from this problem here detailed, all the maps (of that series) for municipalities in Ciego de Avila province show cayo Romano Occidental in white (it should be yellow) ; and all the maps (of that series) for municipalities in Camagüey prov. show cayo Romano Occidental in yellow (it should be white). But it's not as important as for those maps here because the articles in which these maps are used do not focus as much on these islands. Plus I imagine it'll be a really boringly repetitive and uninteresting job. So just mentioning here in passing, but let's sort these here out first, the rest can wait. I've got the map all labelled and ready for when you reappear.

Pueblo89 (talk) 20:51, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

@Pueblo89 I don't really understand all the info, but I probably will once you have sent me your maps. Sent you a wiki email because I haven't received any from you. --please ping me-- Goran tek-en (talk) 16:58, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Goran tek-en, I did send you something via wk, don't know where it's gone. Got your email in my own email box (not wk), just answered it but I find it suspicious that the email address is just "wiki(at)wikimedia.org", hell knows where that is gonna land. So pPlease let me know if you've got it. Thanks! Pueblo89 (talk) 17:53, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

P.S. Just realizing that you talk about "maps". So maybe you want one map, labelled, for each municipality? If yes, please just say so - and give me more time (I just received another urgent piece of (paying) work this afternoon). Pueblo89 (talk) 18:00, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Vectorize raster map file

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Article(s): en:Tren Maya

Request

Hi! Please vectorize this raster map file. Thank you! --OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 21:19, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

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Keir Starmer Approval Graph

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Article(s): en:Leadership approval opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election

Request

Can someone please update this graph to the latest version using the information in the Keir Starmer section on the Wikipedia page linked above, which as of the time of writing stetches from April 2020 to 19 Sep 2023. Helper201 (talk) 19:55, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

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Incorrect/missing colors of waterbodies

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Article(s): en:Vironniemi

Request

The map above is just an example; there are probably 100+ of these maps with incorrect/missing waterbody colors on maps of Helsinki. File:Helsinki districts.svg is the base map file and has the correct coloring; please compare it to the image above. Those incorrect maps were made by User:Stadscykel who later fixed some of them (e.g. Special:Diff/43585007, Special:Diff/43585930), but most of those maps still have incorrect/missing colors. Related discussions on fi.wikipedia: link and link, and here on Commons: link. --JAAqqO (talk) 01:06, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

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Update with source

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  Description of first image
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  Description of second image (if needed)
• Description of third image (if needed; don't request too many at once, though)
  Description of third image (if needed; don't request too many at once, though)

Article(s): [[]]

Request

An update is needed since a source from en:UNOSAT (link here) has given demarcation for the new state of north Somalia SSC-Khatumo. Could someone incorporate the UNOSAT source on Khatumo borders into the above map please? --Billboardbillal (talk) 10:48, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

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Gautier, Jackson County, Mississippi

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Article(s): w:Gautier, Mississippi

Request

Hello, can someone please upload a new map of Jackson County, Mississippi, specifically one that includes w:Gautier, Mississippi, as the area of the city has increased? It would be a new version of File:Jackson County Mississippi Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Gautier Highlighted.svg. If it's not too difficult, someone could also upload new maps showing the other cities in Jackson County, Mississippi. Thanks! Kk.urban (talk) 22:45, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

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Translate to English and vectorize German language map file

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  Raster German language map

Article(s): en:South–North Water Transfer Project

Request

Hi! Please translate and vectorize this raster German language map file. Thank you! --OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 05:04, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

@OrdinaryScarlett Graphic workers do not do translations, it's up to the requester to provide the translations in a way it's easy to work with, copy, see which goes where etc, thanks. --please ping me-- Goran tek-en (talk) 18:30, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

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Piggly Wiggly locations map out-of-date

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  This map is not up-to-date.

Request

Link: en:Piggly Wiggly

Looking at pigglywiggly.com/store-locations/, they now have locations in New York and Texas, and don't have any in Missouri or Minnesota anymore. BhamBoi (talk) 04:27, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

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Map colours

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Article(s): en:Psilocybin decriminalization in the United States

Request

I think the colours for "Legal for medical use and decriminalized" and "Decriminalized" are quite similar and could lead to confusion, especially on small screens like mobiles and for people with sight and colour blindness and similar such issues. So, I think more different/distinct colours could be used for this map, taking into account colour blindness and sight issues and just generally be easier to distinguish between for everyone. Helper201 (talk) 17:30, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

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Create vector static map for commuter rail network

Article(s): en:Virginia Railway Express

Request

Hi! Please create a vector static map for this commuter rail network. Thank you! --OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 02:41, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

P.S. Please use #eb1b23 for the Fredericksburg Line, and #1a458b for the Manassas Line. Thanks again! --OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 02:49, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

@OrdinaryScarlett As it is the requester who has the knowledge about the subject and the graphic workers knows the graphic, it's common that the requester provides a good free source for the request. Graphic worker doesn't generally do research and reads a lot of text etc, thanks. --please ping me-- Goran tek-en (talk) 18:28, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Sure! A great source for the geographical data for both lines can be found at Data:Virginia Railway Express.map, which I made myself using the preexisting KML file attached to the Wikipedia article. I hope that's good enough? --OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 23:04, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Where is the east end of the red line? It just appears to merge with the blue one on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Virginia_Railway_Express.map cmɢʟee ⋅τaʟκ 02:41, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

The two merge together and both end at the same point; at Washington Union Station. Because of the way that these maps work, unfortunately you can only see one line over the other when they overlap. But yes, they both at the same point. --OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 05:46, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

P.S. Again, but ideally a map similar to this would be preferable. Thanks again! --OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 00:18, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

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Convert raster map files to a vector file

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Article(s): en:Corridor Cities Transitway and various South Florida rail articles

Request

Hi! Please convert this raster map file to a vector file. Thank you! --OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 23:27, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

P.S. I added a second one. For the Downtown Miami Link service, please cut it back to Tri-Rail and Metrorail Transfer. Thanks again! --OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 00:20, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

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New accurate map in SVG of the visa policy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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  Example 1 : visa policy of South Africa
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  Example 2 : visa policy of Tunisia

Article(s):

Request

The current file for the visa policy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is an old PNG, not up to do date and that does not even show eVisa. Please make one like South Africa or Tunisia as shown above. Thank you. -- Calvinsky (talk) 11:14, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

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  This is originally created by Maxxl2 , I just corrected some location.But sadly it saved into PNG.

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Please convert the file extension from png into svg (without lossing colour and quality).--Lord Buddha 1 (talk) 12:09, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

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New range maps for Bathytoshia stingrays to be used on en.wikipedia

• A rangemap for Bathytoshia lata
  A rangemap for Bathytoshia lata
• A revised rangemap for Bathytoshia centroura
  A revised rangemap for Bathytoshia centroura
• Description of third image (if needed; don't request too many at once, though)
  Description of third image (if needed; don't request too many at once, though)

Article(s): en:Broad stingray en:Roughtail stingray

Request

The old map is attached in the gallery. B. centroura is now only found in the Western Atlantic. The map for B. lata needs to include the portion removed from B. centroura and that included on its FishBase native range map [5]--Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins (talk) 15:41, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

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Map of location of Capelle train accident

Article(s): en:Capelle train accident

Request

Please make a map like this map] to be used in the English and Dutch Wikipedia articles. The source is this PDF document, page 86. The arrow is at this address on OpenStreetMaps (here on Google Maps). Thanks in advance! --Wroeter (talk) 12:30, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

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Cleaning up the SVG coding for a Massachusetts county map

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  A map showing the current status of government each county in Massachusetts, based on information from Abolitions of some county governments section of the List of counties in Massachusetts article

Article(s): en:List_of_counties_in_Massachusetts

Request

I made a map based on the article information to visually show the status of county governments and government abolition. I used File:Map_of_Massachusetts_highlighting_Barnstable_County.svg as the base and edited the SVG coding, but it could definitely use some edits and love from someone more experienced with SVG to make it more visually appealing. --Gimelthedog (talk) 16:45, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

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Update request for File:Europe countries map en 2.png

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  File:Europe countries map en 2.png

Article(s): Many articles across Wikipedia.

Request

In File:Europe countries map en 2.png, the black coloring for Nagorno-Karabakh within the borders of Azerbaijan needs to be removed, because the de facto Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh ceased to exist after Azerbaijan took all of it and gained full control over its entire territory in 2023. (The same requests have also been made for the removal of Nagorno-Karabakh from the maps which include Azerbaijan by other users here in the Commons:Graphic Lab/Map workshop page, which are pending.) --Multituberculata (talk) 08:58, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

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Update request for the linguistic and ethnicity maps of the Armenian language and the Armenian people

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  File:Map-of-speakers-of-armenian.png – Nagorno-Karabakh needs to be removed
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  File:Idioma armenio.png – Nagorno-Karabakh needs to be removed
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  File:Idioma azerí.png – Nagorno-Karabakh needs to be colored in blue
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  File:Armenian distribution map.png – Nagorno-Karabakh needs to be colored in brown
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  File:ArmenianDiaspora.png – Nagorno-Karabakh needs to be removed
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  File:Diàspora armènia.png – Nagorno-Karabakh needs to be removed
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  File:Map of the Armenian Diaspora in the World.svg – Azerbaijan needs to be colored in gray as there are less than 1,000 Armenians after the flight of virtually all Armenians with the dissolution of Nagorno-Karabakh and Turkey needs to be colored in (+ 10,000) very light brown, as there are less than 100,000 Armenians

Article(s): Many articles across Wikipedia.

Request

These linguistic and ethnicity maps of the Armenian language and the Armenian people need to be updated after the Flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians in 2023, which has resulted in the total ethnic cleansing of the Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh and thus from all of Azerbaijan, after Azerbaijan took all of Nagorno-Karabakh. There is no Armenian community left anymore within Azerbaijan's internationally recognized borders. --Multituberculata (talk) 08:50, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

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Fix the map for JF-17 jet users

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  Map with JF-17 jet airplane operators in blue, loctaed on the following Wikipedia page

Article(s): [[]]

Request

Add Azerbaijan as highlighted in blue. Azerbaijan signed a contract to purchase these airplanes. --Creffel (talk) 12:15, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

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Suicide legislation

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  Suicide legislation world map

Article(s): en:Suicide legislation

Request

There are changes and corrections that should be made to this map. Firstly, Morocco and Syria should be in grey, as there is no cited information on the above linked Wikipedia page to say suicide is illegal in either country (as the map currently claims). Secondly, Chile and Cuba should be in green as suicide is cited as legal in both, while assisted is suicide illegal. Helper201 (talk) 01:35, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

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Update request for the Indonesia Ethnic Groups Map

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  Map of ethnic groups in Indonesia in Russian

Article(s): en:Ethnic groups in Indonesia

Request

Is there anyone here who would like to make revisions, additions, and also make an English version of this map? I already have a list of things that need to be revised and updated, but I will mention these things in stages considering the length of the list I have. Note: I already have the name labels on this map in English and Indonesian, so you don't need to translate them anymore, just write them on the map. --Ibrahim Muizzuddin (talk) 08:19, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

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Visa Policy Map of Turkmenistan Visa Policy

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Article(s): Name of article the image will be used in to link on English Wikipedia: Visa Policy Of Turkmenistan for Non-Ordinary Passports

Request

Hi, was just hoping if anyone can update the map by adding Singapore into the list of visa-exempt countries for Diplomatic and Official/Service Passport Holders as map is outdated. For more information on the single change required, you can try to text me at Suomi2023 but I am not always online. Thank you.

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 Done --Rtfroot (talk) 18:31, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Make a map of the Middle Corridor based on the map from the official website

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Article(s): en:Middle Corridor

Request

Please someone make a map of the Middle Corridor based on the map from the official site --Rtfroot (talk) 18:25, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

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 Request taken by — Meghmollar2017 • Talk • 06:30, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi! Thank you for taking this. Any progress? Rtfroot (talk) 14:43, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done @Rtfroot: Hello, sorry for the late. Please check the map out if it needs fixing. Regards — Meghmollar2017 • Talk • 12:56, 29 March 2024 (UTC) (Please ping me)

@Meghmollar2017 Oh, thank you very much, such a great job! Everything is fine, but the original map is a little outdated. Kazakhstan renamed its capital from Nur-Sultan to Astana. Rtfroot (talk) 17:41, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@Rtfroot, I have uploaded a new version of the map with the new name. Thanks. : ) — Meghmollar2017 • Talk • 06:53, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

13 Colonies map into US English

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  Map of the Thirteen Colonies what appears to be German

Article(s): en:Thirteen Colonies, en:United States, en:European colonization of the Americas, en:British colonization of the Americas, en:United Colonies,

Request

Could someone make a version of this map in US English?

The idea is to have a good map in English of the Thirteen Colonies as they existed in 1775 before the US Declaration of Independence: a map that is not anachronistic—that is, a map that doesn't show boundaries of US states that did not exist at the time. إيان (talk) 23:30, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Labels that need to be translated:

Sankt-Lorenz-Strom --> St. Lawrence River

Oberer See --> Superior

(zu Mass) --> (Mass)

Atlantik --> Atlantic

إيان (talk) 16:51, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

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•  Half done – I have translated most German elements into English, except Sankt-Lorenz-Strom, which I have not translated yet for some reasons. Here is the English-version map: Thirteencolonies politics cropped-en.jpg. --Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 17:42, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you Sbb1413! Is there anyone who can change 'Sankt-Lorenz-Strom' to 'St. Lawrence River'? إيان (talk) 20:34, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

Bringing this back from the archive. Seeking help in completing the translation by changing 'Sankt-Lorenz-Strom' to 'St. Lawrence River'. إيان (talk) 01:50, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

@إيان,  Done, also fixed the typo for Roanoke. @Sbb1413, hope you didn't mind the minor overwrite of your file. DankJae 19:35, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

User-editable maps for more countries

Can someone adapt the template for other countries too?

These SVG maps have user-editable sections (any text editor) to allow creation of more maps on more topics. See examples at Category:English-language SVG maps of the United States made with templates.

Version 2: Convert a US list/table to a state-by-state data map. With examples and step-by step instructions. Example:

Homicide rates per 100,000 by state. FBI.

Simple map below with state names and colored states. See its talk page.

Medicaid expansion map of US. Affordable Care Act

--Timeshifter (talk) 19:14, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Timeshifter. I am not sure to directly help here but I would like to share some thoughts related to your request:

• I found that for many users editing a "simple" text file such as svg is not so obvious. For this reason I think it will be nice to have a graphical interface to do so. For this reason I started working on a tool like this one. The interface is not very good but it has some nice features to help editing maps. I can upload more maps if needed.
• Few years ago I made a proposal to seaparate the css files from the svg. In fact, we have a lot of maps that represent the same countries or regions but need different colours. I though that it will be good to have one svg with the geographica representation and a separate file for the colours. There was some intresting discussion on this but not accepted.
• I think we will need to have some deeper discussion on the format for this kind of svg maps. I personally belive that it will be good to have some classes and features in the svg that can help automatic detection of specific elements or machine use for editing.

Sure this is not in line with your request but I hope this may help. Thanks Ikonact (talk) 08:19, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Ikonact. cmglee is the main creator of the map templates. Maybe he can tell us what he thinks of your maps.

I have a question. Is there a way to paste in a list of states and values into your maps. To make maps with the data on the maps. That is what is possible with cmglee maps. It is very easy to do. Just need the list. A good set of colors is already in the map. Those colors can be changed.

cmglee can probably adapt this data map template method to other countries and their subnational areas (states, provinces, etc.). --Timeshifter (talk) 17:53, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

That's a useful tool, @Ikonact: Though I prefer scripting, I can see other editors preferring a GUI. Will it have a way to save a draft and resume editing, or to load someone else's map to make changes?

I didn't see your proposal in 2017, and would very much welcome having SVG files referencing or transcluding other files. I've been using a hack using systemLanguage so that a single SVG can generate different thumbnails, e.g. for each tower's article:

A limitation is that all variants must already be in file. Can we build on this idea? Cheers, cmɢʟee ⋅τaʟκ 09:39, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

@Cmglee: I remember, I have seen your svg with the towers and I find it a good idea. I find it a twist as the purpose of the systemLanguage is different but I agree it is a good work around. The main issue is that this will not work for multiple elements - if you wish to highlight several states on a map for example. I will be glad if we can propose something that make sense. I have to admit I am playing solo for the moment :-) Ikonact (talk) 13:33, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, @Ikonact: Ian Furst (talk · contribs) contacted me five years ago to create SVG that can selectively show any combination of selected medical symptoms, and we encountered the same problem. I ended up creating a template using en:template:location_map+ to make something like this. It might work for some niche use-cases. cmɢʟee ⋅τaʟκ 15:47, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

@Timeshifter: I have not done pasting list of states and values in teh code for this map but it is planned and I can work on this. I agree that this is useful. Ikonact (talk) 13:28, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

A Map for the Ajuran Sultanate

• The map should be identical to the map from historyfiles.co.uk
  The map should be identical to the map from historyfiles.co.uk
• [[1]] (if needed)
  [[1]] (if needed)
• Description of third image (if needed; don't request too many at once, though)
  Description of third image (if needed; don't request too many at once, though)

Ajuran Sultanate: [[]]

Request

(details of your request go here...) --Karamumkaram (talk) 14:02, 7 April 2024 (UTC) The map needs to be based on the one from [[6]]

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A Map for the Ajuran Sultanate

• Description of first image
  Description of first image
• Description of second image (if needed)
  Description of second image (if needed)
• Description of third image (if needed; don't request too many at once, though)
  Description of third image (if needed; don't request too many at once, though)

Ajuran Sultanate: [[]]

Request

(details of your request go here...) --Karamumkaram (talk) 14:04, 7 April 2024 (UTC) The map needs to be based on the one from [[7]]

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Fixing arrowheads in an SVG map

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  Map of the Ottoman Empire in 1590

Article(s): en:Empire of the Sultans, a Featured Article Candidate

Request

This is a valid SVG file edited in Inkscape but saved as plain SVG. When I look at this file in Inkscape or in a web browser, the arrowheads are pointing in the correct direction. When viewed on Wikimedia, the arrowheads all point to the right. Any help is gratefully received for getting the arrows to render properly on Wikimedia. --MartinPoulter (talk) 16:18, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

I've updated this to a version without arrowheads. The previous version had the arrowhead problem: I still welcome advice on how I can put arrows into diagrams in Inkscape and have the arrowheads render properly on Wikimedia. MartinPoulter (talk) 15:29, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

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