Template talk:Spratly Islands Map

Map location marks and legend

This map is incredibly abstruse. All the active locations on the map are incredibly tiny and many readers won't even realise there is information there, although perhaps the legend will give some people a clue. Some of the locations are tagged with an actual name, but most are just numbers. The number can then be looked up in the legend, although many of the numbers are repeated and you have to match both the number and the color, a blatant abuse of MOS:COLORCODING. Am I missing something here? Is there a reason why *all* the tagged locations can't have the actual name? They can still be in color to be matched with a country, or that can also be included in the text. Or both. Lithopsian (talk) 10:49, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Will replace this template in articles that use it with Template:Spratly Islands OSM which now uses much better mapping tools due to others hard work, so was capable of easier improvement including others trying to address icon size. The two templates were originally created by same author within 30 minutes but possibly languished, although recently had input to increase icon size. It now may have other useful mouse over features that this template can not have at this time and has had some errors corrected. ChaseKiwi (talk) 16:52, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]