User:DutchTreat/Projects/Maps

Communities

Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps
Wikipedia:Graphics Lab | commons:Wikipedia:Graphics Lab
- Map workshop
meta:Wikimaps User Group active in 2021. As of 2022-10-29, no activities in 2022.

Dashboard

/dashboard status of requests

Help

Conventions: SVG template with icons; Location maps; Locator maps (blank); Orthographic maps; Area maps

Wikipedia:Maps for Wikipedia more on {{Maplink}} automating and other discussions

Icons to use with {{Maplink}}

Books

Garfield, Simon (2012). "On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does". Profile Books.

Discussion

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Using maps as sources from 19 March 2023

CRS

North American Datum - NAD83 zone 18 N for New York City
Gall–Peters projection#Peters world map controversy
Gauss-Kruger coordinate system also known as Transverse Mercator projection - delivers high accuracy in zones less than a few degrees in east-west extent.

Tutorials

Wikipedia:Creating route maps from OpenStreetMap data using {{Maplink}} with OSM data including routes. See New River (Belize).
User:JaneVannin/translations/topographic translation from fr-en (last updated in 2011-12-18)
steps for creating from DEM files in NASA SRTM format using 3DEM and GRASS GIS software
Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Resources/Change the colors of a country

People

Harrison, Richard Edes (1901–1994) scientific illustrator and cartographer
Berghaus, Heinrich (1797–1884) German cartographer, surveys of Prussia
Horthemels,Louise-Magdeleine (1686–1767)
Kaufmann, Obi (b. 1973), author and illustrator of The California Field Atlas
Lambton, William (c1753–1823)
Malègue, Hippolyte Hippolyte Malègue (Q55837130) missing Wikipedia article as of Jan 2023

Best examples

Carte comparative des principales altitudes de la France par département by Hippolyte Malègue (Q55837130) (1897)
map of the villages of Veur and Leidschendam (NL) province of South Holland, Netherlands (1812-1819) by Dl. Munro van Filpen & Willem Jacob van Campen (Q98520516)
Great Trigonometrical Survey by Lambton
Hadrian's Wall on Ordinance Survey (1964, 2010)
Harrison's World Island (1944), maps in Fortune and published works at "David Rumsey Map Collection".
NYS relief from topography: ETOPO1 by National Atlas
Port-Royal-des-Champs, 18th-century axonometric plan engraving by Horthemels (c. 1710)
Trans-Karakoram Tract, map of Kashmir region created by US CIA (2004); altered by Fowler & fowler
map of Trier and surroundings (1692) by Nicolas de Fer
Yellow River#Characteristics basin by Pline representing Yellow River (Q7355)

The Klamath River from The California Field Atlas by Kaufmann (non-free image not allowed outside of article)

Tools

bboxfinder.com bounding box
Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) - toolbox for Earth, Ocean, and Planetary Science, see paper "The Generic Mapping Tools Version 6" Wessel (2019) doi:10.1029/2019GC008515
Coordinate convetr Degrees to DMS FCC
GeoJson.io - building and testing geojson
commons:User:ShareMap
mapshaper from "Scale and generalization". axismaps.com.
Gunn Map - creating thematic maps from loaded data
NASA WorldWind

Templates

{{GL Map reply}} - helpful reply to requestor
{{Map}} - replace the {{Information}} in summery that gets applied by upload wizard
{{Map conventions}} - footer for WP Map pages
{{Annotated image}} -

Terms

Fluvial processes, see Gulch
Gazetteer - dictionary
Gulch - needs more details, plus topo map. Add topo maps from Canada's National Topographic System (NTS). See listing of gulches in Canada "Geographic Terms". geonames.nrcan.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2011-09-26.. There are 3 types listed in this source:
- Type 1: Deep, steeply graded, V-shaped valley. Examples: Grub Gulch, B.C., 53°02′N 121°42′W / 53.033°N 121.700°W / 53.033; -121.700 (93 H/4); Gold Bottom Gulch, Y.T., 63°54′N 138°59′W / 63.900°N 138.983°W / 63.900; -138.983 (115 N & O); Bears Paw Gulch, Man., 49°39′N 98°53′W / 49.650°N 98.883°W / 49.650; -98.883 (62 G/10) and Arch Gulch, N.S., 45°21′N 64°52′W / 45.350°N 64.867°W / 45.350; -64.867(21 H/7)
- Type 2: Narrow cove with steep shoreline. Examples: Guys Gulch, N.L., 49°33′N 53°49′W / 49.550°N 53.817°W / 49.550; -53.817 (2 F/12); Bear Gulch, N.L., 49°44′N 56°48′W / 49.733°N 56.800°W / 49.733; -56.800 (12 H/10)
- Type 3: Saltwater channel. Example: Camp Island Gulch, N.S., 44°53′N 62°09′W / 44.883°N 62.150°W / 44.883; -62.150 (11 D/16)
Hogback (geology), for example in Colorado Dakota Formation and Grand Hogback, draw 3D diagrams
Slough (hydrology) wetland, could feed into a lake

North America

USA Regions

Northeast /usa-region-ne

Iowa

Iowa Great Lakes

- East Okoboji Lake: OSM Way (113411373) - West Okoboji Lake: OSM - Spirit Lake

North Carolina

Durham: Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Durham, Durham County, North Carolina.

1913

Plate 45, image 48
- White Rock Baptist Church
- St. Joseph's A.M.E. Church on Fayetteville and St. Joseph St

Plate 46, image 49
- St. John's Baptist Church
- Lincoln Hospital at E. Proctor and Cozart St

Plat 56, image 59
- Primitive Baptist Church on E. Pettigrew

1937

Plate 1, image 2
- North Carolina Mutual Life on W. Parrish St.
- Washington Duke Hotel (unknown if related to Black Wall Street?)

Plate 203, image 67
- Hayti - district with many black owned business in early 20th century (see article below)

Articles:

Wisconsin

Lake Superior improve leading photo: Both existing images have cloud cover, view of Earh from ISS and File:LS-MetOp-B.png, replace with Landsat 9 image without clouds

New Jersey

New York

NYC - General

New York State Birding Trail: list of places "NYS Birding Trail Locations" "DEC Announces Grand Opening of First Segment of New York State Birding Trail". October 7, 2021., create a map for them? It seems like it's a dynamic list, Add to Birding in New York City?

Council Districts /nyc-council-districts
- Performance analysis of putting zoom of each district (2 March 2021)

Historic Districts /nyc-historic-districts

Monuments /nyc-monuments

Trees /nyc-trees-by-size

U. S. Congressional Districts change over time. How to best capture these changes? See New York's 10th congressional district. (a). in Commons, geocoordinates to specific district as Commons Data.map; then (b) in WD use qualifiers to define data ranges for the defined polygons.