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Graphics Lab/Map workshop

The Graphics Lab is a project to improve the graphical content of the Wikimedia projects. Requests for image improvements can be added to the workshop pages: Illustrations, Photographs and Maps. For questions or suggestions one can use the talk pages: Talk:Graphics Lab, Talk:Illustrations, Talk:Photographs and Talk:Maps.
This specific page is the requests page for the Map workshop. Anyone can make a request for a map to be created or improved for a Wikipedia article. The standard format for making a request is shown below, along with general advice, and should be followed.
You are encouraged to share information and request advice from others. Also see possible conventions toolbox, map tutorials and topographic map tutorials.

Advice to requesters

What do we do? Location maps Area maps (animals, languages, empires, etc.) Historical and conflict related maps Battle maps Technical maps (archaeology, city closeups, etc.) Sourced requests: If possible, please try to provide a reliable source to create a map. This includes a map already on Wikipedia with a reliable source or an external link. Please check: Please check back regularly to see if progress has been made or if any additional questions need to be answered before the request can be completed. Direct collaboration: Some mapmakers are especially interested by one topic area. If you notice a mapmaker fitting your needs, consider asking on their personal talk page to request maps. {{Reqmap}}: To request a map, you can also tag the talk page of the article in need of a map with or {{Reqmapin|Australia}} (articles then appear in Category:Wikipedia requested maps) If a request is done to your satisfaction, please mark it with {{resolved}}.

Advice to Graphists

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A locator map of Europe in 1939?

Article(s)

Basis Nord

Request

I wonder whether a historical map of Europe in 1939 is needed for that page. The present version shows the boundaries of XXI century.-- Carnby (talk) 18:27, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s)

@Carnby: I am not sure which of these you want, but I am pretty sure it exists already.

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Is one of these what you are looking for? Lommes (talk) 09:32, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

@Lommes: Yes the first one, anyway I'm unable to use {{Location map many}} with it.--Carnby (talk)

Sorry, never worked with location maps before. Someone else?Lommes (talk) 19:05, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

New Philadelphia Location map

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  Philadelphia Location map

Article(s)

Many, but Watson Comly School, for example

Request

Can a new location map for Philadelphia be uploaded? The current image is cut too low at the northern edge of the city, so the valid coordinates at Watson Comly School are outside of the map. Also, is there a better version that's less cluttered than OSM? kennethaw88 • talk 18:57, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

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Sur Empire

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Article(s)

Sur Empire

Request

Hi. Please make "Qandahār" the easternmost boundary of the "Safavid Empire" (yellow), and give the area directly to the east of it the same brown-ish (earthern) color as we can see in other major parts of the map. In other words, there must be a brown-colored territory between Kandahar, and the green territory (Sur Empire). All areas to the north of Qandahār (e.g. everthing surrounding "Ghazni" and "Kabul", and to the north of both) have to be colored with the same brown-ish shade as well. Thanks much in advance -- LouisAragon (talk) 03:22, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

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Maurya empire

Article(s)

Maurya Empire

Request

Can someone create a freely-licensed SVG map based on this map. The linked map is from A History of India (4th edition) by Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund, p. 69.

We've several maps of the Maurya Empire, which look something like this: File:Maurya Empire, c.250 BCE 2.png. According to Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund's book, this is not an accurate representation of the empire's territory, as there were several unconquered tribes and uninhabited regions which were not under Mauryan control.

It's be great if we can have an alternative map. The map linked above is a PDF file, easily convertible to SVG. Besides not being free, the original map is quite cluttered. Removing the edict labels, the Nanda empire borders and the roads will probably make it cleaner. -- utcursch | talk 02:12, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

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Right-wing populism map

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  Right-wing populist parties in European national parliaments

Article(s)

Right-wing populism

Request

Please can someone update this map. UKIP no longer has presence in UK Parliament. There are currently right-wing populists in the national legislatures of Estonia, Turkey, Serbia, Belarus, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia, Luxembourg. -- Jay942942 (talk) 19:04, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s)

If I understand the legend correctly, the current coloring indicates that no right-wing populists are in the national legislature; it seems to indicate that the R-W P presence is only in a subnational legislature, which in this case is Wales. Is UKIP in the Welsh Assembly or anywhere else? If they're nowhere at all, of course the coloring can be removed. Nyttend (talk) 23:13, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

It seems to be that the legend is wrong. For example, Netherlands, France, Belgium are all the same color as the United Kingdom, but all those three currently have right-wing populists in their national legislature. Also, right-wing populists are in regional legislatures in Germany, which is shaded grey. It seems that the darkest blue indicates they lead the government (Hungary, Poland), the slightly lighter shade indicates they are in government but not leading the government (Greece, Slovakia, Finland) and the lightest shade indicates presence in national legislature. UKIP has no presence in the British national legislature, but still does have presence in the Welsh Assembly.--Jay942942 (talk) 13:03, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Location Map Onondaga County, New York

I'm looking how to create a location map for Onondaga County like this one this one for San Diego County.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Onondaga_County_New_York_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas.svg Countyparkour (talk) 22:29, 11 April 2017 (UT->

Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca.svg

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  Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca

Article(s)

Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca

Request

Hi. Please remove all green areas in "Circassia" and "Gudjistan", except for the coastal areas, and change them into the color orange. Also, "Dagestan", as well as anything to the east and south of "Kabardia", as well as Central and Eastern Georgia need to be colored orange. In short words; the only thing that should remain green in that area (aka Caucasus), is the coastal area of Gurdjistan/Georgia, the coastal area of Circassia, and of course Kabardia needs to remain within that type of red/green shading. Everything else should be shaded orange. This is pretty important, as the one who made this map, made some absurd pseudo-historic additions (most likely unintentionally, of course). Thanks - LouisAragon (talk) 17:23, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

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Location map for Salvador, Bahia

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Article(s)

São Marcelo Fort

Federal University of Bahia

Jorge Amado University Center

São Francisco Church and Convent

Estádio Fonte Nova

Swimming Olympic Centre of Bahia

Estádio Parque Santiago

Archbishop's Palace of Salvador

Church of the Blessed Sacrament at Rua do Passo

Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá

Church of Saint Peter of the Clergymen

Rio Branco Palace

House of the Seven Lamps

Ilê Axé Iyá Omin Iyamassê

Request

Badly needed: a location pushpin map for the city of Salvador, possibly simply titled "Brazil Salvador". It already exists in the Portuguese Wikipedia as "Região Metropolitana de Salvador". Thanks if possible -- Prburley (talk) 13:20, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

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Legislative Districts of Laguna

• Map of Legislative Districts of Laguna
  Map of Legislative Districts of Laguna

Article(s)

Laguna (province)

Request

I'd like to request a change on this map here. I mean, it's factually correct, but it's not really a good looking map. Might I suggest filling in the towns/cities with a color instead of having dots? Thanks guys. NyanThousand (talk) 06:01, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s)

Have you seen the map at Laguna (province)#Administrative divisions? Maproom (talk) 06:31, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

I guess you're referring to File:Ph fil laguna.png? See, the thing about that map is that it details municipalities and cities, not legislative districts. So yeah, two sort of different things. NyanThousand (talk) 11:09, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

The municipalities of one are exactly identical to the legislative districts of the other, and are shown with the same names, identically placed. Are you saying that you want the city dots to be retained, but given shapes showing the city boundaries? Maproom (talk) 12:44, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Maybe the dots aren't cities, and you want their colour spread over the whole district each is in? Maproom (talk) 17:00, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, something like that. Color in the cities by legislative district instead of having dots. Or maybe a map of the province (without the cities) divided by district. Though I think having city boundaries would be more useful, information-wise. NyanThousand (talk) 03:33, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Afsharid

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Article(s)

Afsharid

Request

please superimpose modern boundaries for context… -- Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 22:28, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s)

Additions of Municipality of Morang district

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Article(s)

Morang district

Request

Biratnagar Sub-metropolitan City is only mentioned in the image. Please color additional municipalities of Morang district mentioned below and rename them after the new name proposed in case of municipalities made by merging Village Development Committees:

Government Sources:Ministry of Federal affairs and local development's latest administrative division

• Koshi Haraicha Municipality & Sundar Dulari Municipality merged to Sundar Haraicha Municipality
• Belbari Municipality
• Pathari-Sanischare Municipality
• Urlabari Municipality
• Rangeli Municipality
• Letang Bhogateni Municipality
• Ratuwamai Municipality

Fall of Constantinople

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Article(s)

Fall of Constantinople

Request

please remove border… -- Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 14:21, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s)

US federal courts in Virginia

• Crummy JPG map
  Crummy JPG map
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  SVG base map

Article(s)

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Request

This map is already in both articles, but it's crummy (a JPG, not a PNG or an SVG), and the lack of sourcing really means that it should be deleted. Could you make a replacement, using File:Map of Virginia Counties and Independent Cities.svg as your base? I can't do it, since color tweaks are needed, and I don't see any hexadecimal references in the SVG source code. I'd appreciate it if you'd:

• Label all the cities by their names (or leave the current numbers and number-key in place), and leave the current county name labels in place.
• Draw a thick link between the eastern and western districts.
• Select a different color for each district division, and apply that color to all the counties and all the cities within that division.

Thank you! Nyttend (talk) 04:06, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s)

 Request taken by Goran tek-en (talk) 18:31, 24 June 2017 (UTC).

@Nyttend: Now there is a draft for you. You should check it and all the texts also as I had to rewrite some of them. Give me feedback, thanks. --Goran tek-en (talk) 21:42, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! Several comments on this draft:

1. Could you switch colors for the Harrisonburg and Abingdon divisions? Maybe it's because of my colorblindness, but I see the colors for Abingdon and Big Stone Gap as identical to each other, and the same is true for Harrisonburg and Lynchburg.
2. Could you shrink the font size for the labels for Appomattox and Buckingham counties? The labels are hard to read because of their length.
3. The key misspells the names of two cities, Colonial Heights and Waynesboro, and in the color key for the divisions, Big Stone Gap has a capitalisation mistake, "Big stone Gap". Probably capitalising district, i.e. "Eastern District" and "Western District", is also more correct.
4. Three cities in the southeast corner (Suffolk, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach) incorrectly have names as well as numbers (and Virginia Beach is mislabelled as Norfolk); could you remove the names?
5. A bunch of cities are erroneously not colored as cities:

• Suffolk, Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Portsmouth (all in the Norfolk Division)
• Poquoson, Hampton, Newport News, and Williamsburg (all in the Newport News Division)
• Colonial Heights and Hopewell (in the Richmond Division)
• Fredericksburg (boundary between Richmond and Alexandria divisions)

Aside from those bits, all of which should be simple fixes, I have no further requests for changes; I like the layout, as it's clean and simple. Nyttend (talk) 22:24, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Iowa court map

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  Ugly map

Article(s)

United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Request

This is an ugly federal map that I think was made in Paint in 5 minutes. Can you create a SVG version that will be better for this? 24.164.180.177 (talk) 18:22, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s)

Crusades

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Article(s)

Crusades

Request

Comment at Featured Article Review: Some of the images look like they are missing a source (and licensing) for the underlying mapping - e.g. :File:Map Crusader states 1135-en.svg, :File:Seljuk Empire locator map.svg, :File:Deutscher Orden in Europa 1300.png. The coastline, rivers etc. look very detailed, and that they've come from somewhere other than the author who did the overlay etc., but I can't see where this is detailed. Norfolkbigfish (talk) 15:53, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s)

The second one says "In general, the map was based on Shepherd and on Hall & Haywood, with modifications based on Grousset and Hourani". The third says "Karte nach: Grosser Historischer Weltatlas. Bayrischer Schulbuch-Verlag (Hg.). Bd. 2, Mittelalter. München 1970, S. 82." Maproom (talk) 16:03, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Do you know the licensing situation on these, please (and a source for 1)? Norfolkbigfish (talk) 18:34, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

I do not. I would expect that uploading to Commons an image based on a work protected by copyright would be forbidden; but I'm not sure. Maproom (talk) 21:45, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

In other words, "I colored the areas on the map based on what was given in S and H&H, although I modified it based on G&H". Not a copyright problem, as it's a source for the information, not a source for the image itself. Nyttend (talk) 22:27, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Thames Valley National Character Area

Article(s)

Thames Valley

Request

Please could we have an area map of the Thames Valley National Character Area. It's Profile 115, linked here. There is an OGL dataset available here. Maps will be needed eventually for every National Character Area, but I'm only specifically looking for this one. -- Dissidentplasterer (talk) 14:50, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s)

• This would be a simple enough job if we had the data but I can't for the life of me figure out where you download it on that page! – Joe (talk) 22:47, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Oahu districts

Article(s)

Ewa District, Hawaii

Request

Please create a full map of Oahu of the district (moku) of the island. See these examples for a guide: [1], [2], [3]. Please use the correct punctuation and spelling, the ʻOkina should not be an Apostrophe and also use the spellings Koʻolauloa and Koʻolaupoko not Koʻolau Loa or Koʻolau Poko. After the full map is created: please create individual maps highlighting the individual districts, see commons:Category:SVG locator maps of modern Hawaiian districts (Hawaii County) for example.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 20:35, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

-- KAVEBEAR (talk) 20:35, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

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Female monarchs

Article(s)

List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government

Request

The name of the article will be changed to "List of female heads of state and government" to also include countries where a female was a monarch head of State. It needs a map to show the countries where a female was head of State or government, even if she was not elected (monarch). Thank you. -- Aude9331 (talk) 10:03, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

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Plastic bag legislation map

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Article(s)

Phase-out of lightweight plastic bags

Request

Color in Colombia in yellow since a country wide tax has been applied for the use of plastic bags and color in Argentina in purple since some municipalities have banned the use of plastic bags. Thank you. -- Anfecaro (talk) 14:46, 30 June 2017 (EST)

Graphist opinion(s)

 Done Houdinipeter (talk) 02:26, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Time Zones in Africa.

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Article(s)

[[4]], others.

Request

The border between Mali and Guinea is missing. Could someone add it in? 8.40.151.110 (talk) 16:43, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Also, clean up the inter-time zone border in the DRC. 8.40.151.110 (talk) 16:45, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s)

Homeric Greece map

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Article(s)

Many,

Homer

Ancient Greek

Geography of the Odyssey, for example

Request

Please fix Achilles location. His hometown was Farsala. See here fore more informations[[5]].

 -- kmpania17 (talk) 08:23, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

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