User talk:Roke/Archive 7

several definitions of the west. Use of colours.

I was wondering if you would reconsider your choice of colours for your map and key for "several definitions of the west.

The light blue color used for "Developed countries in east asia and Oceania, sometimes considered western" is not clear at all. Would it be possible to change to a bolder colour. Especialy as most of these countries are islands and are very difficult to see against the white background.

Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.194.20.90 (talk) 22:29, 29 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

That is not mine, that was made by Bombshell --Astrokey44 22:40, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wagga Wagga

Hello my friend. Just wondering do you have any old maps of Wagga Wagga (or Wynyard or Clarendon) available - or can point me towards? A bunch of us are trying to get Wagga Wagga, New South Wales up to GA or beyond and a nice early map of the streetscape or similar might provide some excellent enhancement? --VS ^talk 13:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Astrokey - this one might still be useful but if you find any other/s that would be brill.--VS ^talk 22:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PNG image

Thanks for your recommendation. But how to make it transparent background, I'm know this is automatic transfer when create SVG image, but is that same in GIMP/PNG image? Thank you for your explain. --Aleen f1 05:29, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Astrokey44, GIMP is too advance, as beginner, i can't draw curve, line, bucket fill the colors, and the tutorials give me doesn't help much, is really problem. Any more easy use tools?, or a guide which can really help the beginner. Thanks --Aleen f1 11:00, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks, now i'm understand a lot. --Aleen f1 07:58, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WA LGAs

Great job getting those all done! :) Once I've finished restubbing these 7 that's the entire lot done to Start class. Orderinchaos 10:01, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Same boat here. 4 assignments due this week - sheer madness! Orderinchaos 02:02, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Another Aust. Transport infobox

While I commend your efforts to improve navigation amongst Australian Rail articles, the number of Australian public transport navigation infoboxes is simply getting beyond the point of being funny. I know this because I spent the better part of a whole day doing a massive cleanup of Melbourne which resulted in a single nav infobox. I would like to see a similar level of effort put in for the national perspective, so can I please gain your thoughts about this proposal I have put together this morning for a national approach to transport related infoboxes. Thanks, Thewinchester ^(talk) 02:43, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Common Law Graphic

I was over at the common law article and saw the grapic you made for it. It looks nice, but when I saw the US on it, it looks incomplete. Many states in the US, no longer use common law. Illinois, for example, replaced common law in 1961 with a criminal law statute. Torturous Devastating Cudgel 22:02, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

With regard to Illinois, (the only state I have any first hand information on) the passage of the Illinois Criminal Code of 1961 marked the transition from common law to statutory law. For example, 720 ILCS 5, Section 1-3 dealing with the Applicability of common law states that “No conduct constitutes an offense unless it is described as an offense in this Code or in another statute of this State.“ But on the other hand, common law, at least in Illinois, can still be applicable in civil cases. This article here in JSTOR might also shed some light on this topic [1], but I don’t have access to the whole thing. At any rate, perhaps there is some legal expert on Wiki that could help clarify this. Torturous Devastating Cudgel 15:39, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, I left a note here for some input. Torturous Devastating Cudgel 16:06, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Torturous Devastating Cudgel, I saw the request for Guidance that you posted. Unless I am drastically mistaken in what you are asking, the only U.S. state that employs a "mixed-system" for purposes of the image you are referring to is Louisiana, and that appears to be already indicated in the image itself. Note that the adoption of penal codes and codification of the rules of criminal procedure do not necessarily mean the same thing as the adoption of a "mixed-system" for purposes of the image you link to. Judges in Illinois still meet the test specified in the article Common law. Hope that helps. dr.ef.tymac 16:17, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

LGA Table

Well done, that table's great! Alec ^{-(answering machine)} 10:46, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Namadgi Photo

Hi thanks for you interest. I have no idea in which direction I was facing, but I have more pictures here, you may be able to make out the landmarks? Cheers! Dfrg.msc 07:09, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Peer review

Hi. I think a map that you created deserves to be a featured picture. It is under peer review here. A.Z. 01:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

POTD notification

Hi Astrokey44,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:US states by date of statehood3.gif is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 4, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-07-04. This technically shouldn't appear until later but I wanted to find something American for the 4th of July. howcheng {chat} 18:30, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Your help is needed!

Hello Astrokey44. Currently I am working on a project, translating the National Hockey League and it's related articles into Persian and Hebrew Wikipedias. Since the leeters in English language are written from left to right and in Persian are written from right to left, it creates a problem when dealing with the map you've made about team locations in that article. Here I provide you the link in Persian Wikipedia so you could see the problem about the map. Since I have no idea of how to fix this map, I was wondering if you could help me in this. I really appreaciate your help. here is the link to Persian article on NHL and the futured map

Best Regards: --Kaaveh 07:09, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Survivor Season Countries Table

Hello Astrokey44! I would like to congratulate you on this table! And i hate to sound like a pain, but if you had some time could you please update it to include Fiji (Season 14) and China (Season 16). Sorry to bother you, Survivorfan101 07:58, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for updating the image! Survivorfan101 11:02, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fuero-Fuego

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Image:Cairns LGA Qld.png

Thankyou for adding Image:Cairns LGA Qld.png to Cairns City Council, your help is appreciated. - Fosnez 10:42, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Municipalities in Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Thanks very much for your work thus far. Please see my notes and comments at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Maps. Your work is very much admired and appreciated. Spikebrennan 13:35, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, marvelous work. Were you going to finish the locator maps for the rest of the municipalities? Spikebrennan 18:59, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll add my thanks as well. Good work with the maps. I noticed that for Concord Township you added to the map to the Geobox, which I think is a good idea. I had done this for Bucks County as well. However, I think your new maps should be the first map shown so that the flow of smaller to larger area (county, state, country) remains consistent. What are your thoughts on that? VerruckteDan 21:32, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Astro, in response to your post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. counties, check out Aspinwall, Pennsylvania. User:Skeetidot is working on creating maps for Alleghany County that use the name colors as the PA Locator map and USA locator map used in the boxes of the Delco municipalities. Also, from what I've seen there's a collection of PA counties that have county locator maps. I've seen them for Allentown area articles, Bucks and Lycoming Counties. I think they are a great feature for articles, and I really like that the Alleghany County maps match the color scheme. VerruckteDan 19:50, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

		Thank you for your support and comments at my RfA
		Hi Astrokey, It still amazes me that otherwise "anonymous" editors take the time to place !votes and comments on RfAs. Whilst I would have normally thanked you at the time of you leaving your message, the importance of my not appearing to be canvassing prevented me from so doing. Now that everything has progressed successfully I can finally thank you. I intend to uphold a style of good adminship and will welcome your further comments at any time in the future, even if they are in the form of admonishment. I will be happy to help as an admin wherever and whenever I can --VS ^talk 00:09, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Animated USA map

Just saw your POD from yesterday. I like how you handled the state splits (Massachusetts & Virginia losing Maine & West Virginia, respectively). Mdotley 22:10, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I loved that map too. I have a question for you...how, if at all, do you adjust the speed at which the frames of an animated .gif will present themselves? Is there some way in Wikipedia to present a series of images in slide-show fashion (with buttons to advance and reverse) that isn't too memory-intensive? Thanks! PurpleChez July 9 2007

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Wikipedia Western Australia project

might have a conversation you might or not might be interested in. Satu Suro 06:30, 13 July 2007 (UTC) thanks for that - is there any easy process for non creators to addcthings to that stuff? we have a new geography of wa article -and the intro paragraph needs about3 maps just to set the context right - I am very very tempted to ask you for help :) Satu Suro 07:03, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(1) WA occupies nearly 1/3 of the Australian continent. - a simple wa against the other states (maybe very small text with land size in sq kms as well...)

(2) Due to the size and the isolation of the state - considerable emphasis has been made of these features. Such as - it is the second largest administrative territory in the world (after Yakutia in Russia), or no other place in the world occupies such a high percentage of a continental land mass. maybe maybe not

(3) Its capital city, Perth, is also amongst the most isolated on the planet, being closer to Jakarta than to the national capital Canberra. jakarta to sydney regional

Or is there a place and way to try this stuff oneself (i work from an intel imac with no photoshop or other special software mind you) -- Satu Suro 07:08, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

United Kingdom

Hi, Astrokey44, did any Europe map have separate Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland, or more clear constituent countries of United Kingdom. I'm so frustrate to divide this country in the map. Thank you. --Aleen f1 05:35, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but in Europe map, it didn't divide, so is hard for me to color that map. So any good idea? --Aleen f1 10:43, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PanAm Games Map Request

Hey there. I've come to you in the past to make my maps, and I have returned! This image of the venues at the 2007 Pan American Games looks like it will be deleted, and certainly it could be recreated. It appears to have come from this page of the Rio official website. There is a printable form of the image here. If you have time, please work your magic. If not, no sweat. Thanks. _└^Jared_┘^┌_t^┐ 17:07, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That works great. Thanks. (And it saved you a lot of tireless work!) _└^Jared_┘^┌_t^┐ 13:22, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright issues NLA

In answer to your comments about who owns the copyright to the photograph which I uploaded to the Royal Canberra Hospital Implosion.........James Nomarhas worked as photographer for the NLA and took these images as part of an assignment. The library owns the works and copyright and Nomarhas is happy for the images to be used anyway.I am working as a volunteer within the Pictures Collection and have access to staff and records connected to copyright issues.NLA PIC 23:48, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Having access to staff and records, does not assign copyright permission.

Permission to use under copyright, assigns permission to use.

Volunteer or even salaried status at the NLA, does not conjure up authority to give permission to use images.

Sometimes volunteers imagine they have more authority than they are ever likely to be granted.

Can you put your legal name here and I will check with my NLA contacts if you do have authority to assign copyright on their behalf. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joyen (talk • contribs)

(I think the above comment is meant for NLA PIC.. I have moved it to their talk page --Astrokey44 06:14, 21 July 2007 (UTC))[reply]

We need a map

Hello. A map is needed for the article Brazil's 2006-2007 aviation crisis, as seen on the talk page. Can you help us in any way, either by making a map or telling us how to make one? A.Z. 20:27, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you a lot for the map! It looks great. I asked Dali-llama, as seen here, whether it's correct, since I don't know much about the CINDACTAS, and they probably do. A.Z. 22:49, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thangool, Queensland

Hi. Thanks for including the coord template for Thangool, Queensland. I always seem to forget to add that to the new articles on Australian towns. Cheers, Mattinbgn/^talk 02:18, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

new maps

Hi! I'm wanting to create some county maps for an article I'm working on. All of the (U.S.) state and county maps I've run across have a consistent format and I assume were generated by the same process. I seem to recall long ago finding a link to an external site(s) for map generation but the results weren't what I was looking for, and weren't consistent with other wikipedia maps already in place. And I can't find those links now anyway. Any advice would be much appreciated. And thanks for your earlier advice regarding animated GIFs. PurpleChez 03:21, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message. As for US County maps, all I'm really looking for is an outline map, preferably with rivers, and maybe with the county seat and/or largest city. I'm putting together a page on the waterfalls of northern Georgia; I have the waterfalls grouped by county, and for each group thought I could number the entries and then place corresponding numbers on the county maps. I've found map generation websites, and I could probably make maps with Adobe Illustrator, but I would prefer that they be stylistically similar to other maps at Wikipedia. Thanks for any advice. PurpleChez 01:02, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Inkscape answer

Hi Astrokey,

The British election map is compiled from a PDF file from the Office of National Statistics and from the site TheyWorkForYou, which briefly listed the latitudes and longitudes of the borders. The reason there are no gaps is that the points were placed by computer, rather than hand. Inkscape was only really used for tweaking it and simplifying the paths.

If you are trying to vectorize maps, first of all I suggest that you trace them by hand, rather than trying any potrace or anything like that. Deliberately overlap each electoral district onto others, and then use Inkscape's logical path functions - chiefly "Difference" - to ensure that there aren't any gaps. Only add borders when you've finished, as it can make things terribly confusing otherwise.

Oh, and if the map involves a coastline of any sort, it is well worth checking out the GSHHS, which will save you some time at least.

Hope at least some of this information will be of use to you.

—Wereon 00:20, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Local Government Areas of Queensland

Hi Astrokey. The report - see here - on the future of Local Government Areas of Queensland has been released with recommendations for around 100 councils to become 30. If you are interested new maps will be needed for these areas at some time and as always any help you can provide will be appreciated. Cheers, Mattinbgn/^talk 11:11, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:1930 world cup.png

Hi Astrokey44. I realize that this has been bought to your attention before, and it has been argued to death elsewhere, but the featured article FIFA World Cup lists both Yugoslavia and the USA as third place finishers whilst an image you created - Image:1930 world cup.png - places the USA above Yugoslavia. As I am inexperienced with images on Wikipedia, I kindly ask if you will correct this discrepancy. Hammer Raccoon 19:31, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Hammer Raccoon 16:33, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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