User talk:Planemad/Archive 2

Pics

Your two pics of the newly introduced deluxe buses on the MTC have visually enhanced the page. Keep up the good work!! The Silent Contributor 16:11, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

I believe that with their orange colours, the new low-floor buses might make a good pic. Btw, TSC is what people on Wikipedia seem to be calling me. Wonder why!!! The Silent Contributor 16:22, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Wow, great pics!! The Silent Contributor 16:53, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

POV

Actually it does. I had a chat with Jimbo about this in August (wrt Chinese historical maps). And he feels so that the situation should be accurately depicted despite it being historical. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:11, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

The maps shows Pakistani and Chinese jurisprudence (ie continuity) in Kashmir which is disputed by India. Similarly with claims to AP and Kashmir. =Nichalp «Talk»= 19:05, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Re

Since I have time today, I can write the map chooser code. But please clarify what you mean by "geo template" (you mean the coords/dms template(s))? Thanks. Saravask 19:20, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey, good job on the infobox.

• I was putting off trying to decide whether we should create separate x1, x2, y1, and y2 chooser templates or just bulk-choose all the locator code for each map (so that, in the future, we can have different formulae for maps using different projections, etc.). I guess we could create a separate formula chooser in the future if needed (keeping the coords templates you created), so the way it is now is OK.
• Have you seen the "pushpin" map as used in {{Infobox City}}? That might be a good alternative to raw superposition.

Thanks for the help. Saravask 13:17, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Many city articles have a large city map displayed with a much smaller thumbnail (pushpin) map of the country or state, with the location marked. See the map for San Jose, California, where they did this manually. What we are now doing at WP:IIJ is just displaying the pushpin map (all of India) without the option of making it smaller (in order to display next to a much larger city map). This is not a big issue here, as most Indian city articles don't have city maps, but might be in the future. Saravask 13:34, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Looks like we can just rip the code from {{Infobox City}}; I can try this later today. Thanks. Saravask 14:12, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

PSD & AI

Hi! I created Image:Goamap.png in Photoshop and have the PSD files with me. Since you work in Illustrator, is it possible to open the PSD layers there and rasterize it for svg conversion? =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:00, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Is 22 MB ok for you download? If so I'll put it up tomorrow. =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:08, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Coords

Thanks. I was trying to at least get places like Mumbai and Gangtok (which are are halfway down the map and at nearly opposite ends of India) to align: before, Mumbai was appearing inland while Gangtok was virtually outside of Sikkim. I was going to try to write a more accurate conversion formula for the mercator and conical maps (like these), but then I learned that MediaWiki doesn't support trig. Saravask 20:17, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

I put in pog-switching code; if you have other ideas, please share. Thanks. Saravask 20:28, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

State locator maps

Saravask has done a great job getting the inset India map on the infobox. The locator on the inset map is slightly off-target, see Mylapore. Can you please make new state locator maps similar to the Nichalp's version of the India map. That should ensure the dots show up at the right places. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 17:10, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

My preference will be to have the locator dot on the inset map. It does help in places like Mylapore. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 00:32, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Photograph of slum housing at Bandra Station, Mumbai

Dear Planemad

I plan to use your photo of slum housing at Bandra Station, Mumbai in a forthcoming book. I would like to include your name in the photo credits. Also, do you have an even higher resolution file of the image that you could e-mail me as an attachment or post on the web?

Thanks

Gregory Clark Professor of Economics UC-Davis

gclark@ucdavis.edu —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Larrygorge (talk • contribs) 18:19, 5 April 2007 (UTC).

external link icon

Not sure if it's been resolved yet, but you said (at Saravask's talk page):

“ Yep, same as clicking the coordinates at the title. Better than that would be to straight away take you to the google map, but that would show the external link icon ([1]) wouldnt it? ”

You can fix this by doing the following: <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.google.com google]</span> which prints like so: google. Not sure what you two were talking about, but if you ever need any help with wikicoding or CSS or such I'm a pretty decent programmer. See you around.. -- drumguy8800 C T 08:49, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Sure, just let me know what you want done and I'll see what I can come up with. -- drumguy8800 C T 10:17, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:Aralvaimozhy station.jpg on the Commons

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Infobox coords consolidation

Done. Thanks for suggesting it. Saravask 03:03, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Planemad. Great work with the beautiful maps. I changed the code per your requests. Your cartography is beginning to put even these jpeg maps to shame. Keep the suggestions coming. Thanks. Saravask 19:38, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

OK, I'll let you know if I see any. Thanks again for the great work. Saravask 19:52, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

AAI

I noticed that in Airports Authority of India you had a new logo in which Baton Roughe, Louisiana was displayed. Please correct this egregious error. I do not understand how or why such an image was used, nonetheless, remove it, and place the real new logo, which is a red-orange version of the same old blue logo.

Thank you

Bmaganti 06:13, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:India Naxal affected districts map.svg

Hello plan, first i will like to thank you for creating a wonderful high quality, subject specific map. However perhaps due to some technical errors the map is not being shown in the article on Naxalism, pls do look into the matter LegalEagle 07:36, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:India roadway map.svg

Due to some problems, the image does not seem to be showing up, so please look into this matter, as I need it in one of my articles,I wll currently be replacing it, until it's fixed. Thanks. Effer 21:53, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

New state locator maps

		The Mapmaker's Barnstar
		I present you this Mapmaker's Barnstar for uploading awesome state locator maps! They are colorful and informative. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 17:51, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Must add my appreciation as well. Great job! Saravask 00:48, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Happy Tamil New Year to you to. ~~ AVTN ^{T C}_VPS 08:14, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Location template

You mean you want it merged into WP:IIJ, or you want it used for all Indian geo features? Things like the Taj tend to have one or two templates already plastered on them (see Valley of Flowers National Park or look at Template:Infobox protected area, Template:Infobox World Heritage Site, Template:Location map India, Template:Infobox Mountain Pass, etc.) Maybe you have a way around this.

I'll see later today about the {{LocateMe}}, since a lot of the newer town articles don't have coords. Thanks. Saravask 20:35, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: SVG

I use Illustrator v. 10. And, I have uploaded the svg file again (the earlier one got deleted) here - Image:ShahbagCoreMap.svg. Thanks. I can mail the original files to you, if you resond using my e-mail link on my userpage. Aditya Kabir 18:07, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

• Something is still wrong. Would you check Image:ShahbagCoreMap.svg again? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aditya Kabir (talk • contribs)
• Still no text. Changed to arial and a white background. Aditya Kabir 18:53, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
• Thanks. The fonts are showing on my window now. Still, if you don't mind, do give it a check tomorrow, please. Now I am going to upload a second file in the same way. Aditya Kabir 19:17, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
• The new file is facing a new set of problems (see Image:Old and New Dhaka.svg). Thanks again. Aditya Kabir 19:26, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Browser

Do you know which web browser is most popular in India? Saravask 20:56, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Change Kerala detailed map

Can you move the location of Kerala a little more to the left in the Kerala locator map (For eg. as used in Thiruvananthapuram article) so that the picture is less cluttered when used with the 'position in India' picture. TIA! --Natrajdr 11:24, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I think we have more than enough space as it is on the left side for naming cities (See: Thiruvananthapuram; This has the longest name in southern towns). Also for the northern towns, we can have the names on the right as already present (see: Kozhikode & Kasaragod) if there is a space constraint. Reducing the size of the India inset would make it too small. --Natrajdr 17:20, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

That was a quick response. Take your own time to make the change. I'd like to learn a little bit of map making myself. Any starters? pzzz... I dont know anything about image editing; of course I do remove red eyes from my pictures :) --Natrajdr 17:43, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Saw the change now. Looks great ! --Natrajdr 07:38, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Indian collaboration of the week news

As mentioned in Wikiproject India newsletter of March 2007, the weekly collaboration of the Indian wikiproject has fallen from its once high feats. This message is to request the users to visit the collaboration page and help rejuvenate it.

The present collaboration of the week is Religion in India. Please go through the talk page of the article to see the proposed changes in the article. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:32, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Re:clickable multi locator map

Sounds interesting. I will give it a shot. I will get back to you when complete. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 18:36, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

It's done. -- Ganeshk (talk) 05:38, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Infobox auto-cats

Earlier, you suggested adding {{LocateMe}} to articles without coords; I think it's better to auto-add them to Category:Wikipedia articles needing geographical coordinates (or something with a similar name). Then, Indians could spot all such articles on one page and add coords (perhaps with some bot work) to them all. Also, {{LocateMe}} is too intrusive, since it is just metadata. I think population of all cats like Category:Metropolitan cities in India should be done by the infobox, not by manual inclusion.

Removing locator dots for districts is a good idea, I'll do it later today. Also, please let me know if WP:IIJ looks messed up in Opera. (When are you doing a state locator map for Andhra Pradesh? This is outrageous.) If you have other suggestions, please share. Thanks. Saravask 13:44, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

City locator maps

I just noticed that they don't render when sized at less than 230px--please see below. Purging/refreshing does not work. Is there any way to fix this? Keep up the good work with the other locator maps. Thanks. Saravask 16:22, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Could you explain further? And would that solve the problem once and for all (provided I don't further mess with the infobox and locator map widths)? Sorry. Saravask 17:24, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

File:Delhi area locator map.svg

Gurgaon at 225px

File:Delhi area locator map.svg

Gurgaon at 230px

Thanks for fixing those maps! Keep up the good work! --Jisha (Talk) 17:32, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Just got Image:Punjab locator map.svg to re-display at 230px according to your your technique. Thanks for pointing it out. Saravask 17:40, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Locator

I'm willing to help out. Maybe we can look at {{Australia Labelled Map}} and similar templates for ideas. I was thinking that when it's done, we can also use it to draw multi-labelled locator maps for WP:IIJ--for example, Image:Jammu_and_Kashmir_locator_map.svg could have small labels for Siachen Glacier and similarly important features. Saravask 18:43, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Rashtrakuta map

Thanks for the map correction. Sure, I will let you know if I need more maps to be drawn. ThanksDineshkannambadi 12:19, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

i want to search about the Gurgaon (IMT Manesar) road map images

Performance

Yeah, I noticed today that the Australian city articles take 3-10 seconds to load while ours take 15-45 seconds. I'm going to experiment by removing some metatemplates. Thanks. Saravask 17:35, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Rashtrakuta

Thanks for your effort. A picture says a thousand words.Dineshkannambadi 13:21, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: Hi

Hi. Thank you for the message. Will help out the Chennai page. Anything specific? --Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan 16:49, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

"Coords missing" cat; AP map

Hi Planemad. I remember that you asked me to add a notice to the top of all articles that were missing geo coords. I hope that Category:Indian location articles missing geographical coordinates (which the infobox now auto-populates) can serve the task. Also, you requested that I find an AP model map; will Image:Map AP dist NH roads.png do? There are other such maps for several other states, all drawn by User:Miljoshi. If you don't have time to draw more, though, don't worry about it. Thanks. Saravask 00:02, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Wow ... it looks great. You even got the coords to match the AP map better than I did. Thanks for your help! Saravask 19:29, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Ahmedabad

Hi Planemad. As usual I am amazed how you keep on coming up with stunning maps. Do you plan to make a locator map for Ahmedabad/Gujarat? The Ahmedabad map isn't that necessary but Gujarat could surely do with a locator map. - Aksi_great (talk) 09:49, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

As I said, Ahmedabad can do without a locator map. I will try and find a nice map for you. - Aksi_great (talk) 11:51, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

nope not by me just had them so wanted to dispaly some beautiful aspects of bombay!

Not really sir,just had them from one of my friends pc who might have had them from someone else,i dont think anyone wud object to the pictures,these are general pictures which anyone visiting mumbai possess.

All right sir,thanks for your advice you may please delete the photos.

Karnataka locater map

Hi. Thanks for the great map you created. Just one request, for the southern most district, Chamarajanagar district, the color is somewhat indistinguishable from white. Can you change that to a slightly darker color?

Also, I need a couple of maps drawn for History related articles. Can you do that for me?. I will email you one of them, but the other can be created from the Karnataka locater map itself (Karnataka locator map.svg). I have moved an article into Peer review (Political history of medieval Karnataka) and for this article I need something like the Karnataka Locater map with the various capitals shown all in one map. The various capitals are Banavasi, Talakad, Badami, Basavakalyan, Manyakheta, Vijayanagara, Bijapur, Bidar, Mysore, Belur, Halebidu, Srirangapatna. I believe all these place name articles already have their "dots" in to give you the location. I will double check if it is accurate. ThanksDineshkannambadi 20:35, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

West Bengal Map

Do u have a blank outline map of West Bengal? Moreover can u create the maps present in Geography of West Bengal. Amartyabag ^TALK2ME 04:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Thamks anyway. Best of luck for ur exams. Amartyabag ^TALK2ME 11:51, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Missing report.

Map of UP [1] is missing! --Jisha (Talk) 08:27, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks ! Jisha (Talk)

Bihar, Haryana and Maharashtra maps missing. Jisha (Talk) 17:06, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again! :)Jisha (Talk) 17:48, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Maps

No problem. Good luck with your exams.Dineshkannambadi 15:21, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Gujarat locator map.svg

Hey man. Thanks a lot! I never realised you made it the same day! Wonderful. I am so happy. Thanks once again. - Aksi_great (talk) 17:49, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

I know this is going to sound silly, but how do you use that map? I want to add it to the gu:Ahmedabad article too and use it for various other gujarat based articles. - Aksi_great (talk) 17:55, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

The great Indian disappearing act

I'm confused as to why some of the svg maps keep disappearing sometimes. Right now the maps on Bangalore, Manglore (and possibly other places in Karnataka) and the one on the Kerala model page don't render. Please see if you can fix them. Thanks!--thunderboltz^(TALK) 16:38, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

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request- himachal pradesh district map in svg format

hello planemad, can you prepare a district map for Himachal Pradesh please. if possible kindly prepare it within these 2 days because i have nominated the page for FAC. Thanks, Sushant gupta (talk · contribs) 02:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

if you dont mind can you make for me same map for Rawalakot kashmir neare poonch

Source of maps

How do you make the template maps? I am too curious. :p —vedant (talk • contribs) 23:33, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Great work. Keep it up. :) —vedant (talk • contribs) 08:36, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Permission to use of image uploaded by you in WikiProject Assam Barnstar

I have used [2] uploaded by you and made a barnstar for WikiProject Assam. Can you please verify that the licensing on the image I am uploading [3] is accurate and hassle free? -Deepraj | Talk 13:07, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

re:hp map

sorry, i am not able to get the high resolution road map. umhhh... you can get it from [4]. thanks, Sushant gupta (talk · contribs) 11:53, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Hope so you must have done your university exams well! umhhh... if you don't mind may i have a look at the map you have prepared. i didn't get one thing- do you wish to know the coords of headquaters of the districts of Himachal. if that is the case then i can tell you. if there is anything else you may require then do inform right know because i may be inactive for few days after mid of June. Thank you Sushant gupta (talk · contribs) 05:39, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Locator maps for Andhra Pradesh Districts

Hi Planemad, I am an admin from te wikipedia. Thanks for making a locator map for Andhra Pradesh. On behalf Telugu wikipedians I would like to ask if you can make locator maps for Andhrapradesh districts. Thats will be of great help to telugu wiki and we are willing to extend any help needed in doing so. --Dunnob 16:50, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

absolutely out of the question. To do something like that, i will prolly have to pledge my life for the cause of mapmaking :P

Really sorry to dissappoint Dunnob, but i really dont have the time to do something like that. Whats even more scary is when every state representative start asking me to make district loacator maps for their states. I really dont see why so much detail is necessary, especially when one can get accurate interactive maps from google and yahoo for India. This is really not worth the time time and effort -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 17:15, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I understand and appreciate your prompt reply. Can you atleast direct me how to go about making those maps since google and yahoo maps are copyrighted. You can email me if that suits you. Thanks --Dunnob 19:00, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

You'll need a vector art program for a start, like inkscape or illustrator. Just open up my andhra map in it as a base and work from there. You'll need to tell me exactly what sort of help you need -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 08:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

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thanks a lot!

Hello Planemad, firstly i am sorry for the late reply. secondaly thankyou for creating the map. well i was unable to see the image in high resolution but when i saw it in low res. the district hq are appearing to be located correctly. Sushant gupta (talk · contribs) 05:15, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Planemad, if the infobox is a piece of jewelry (that you and Nichalp played a big role in designing), then your maps are the precious stones set into the band. They really are cleaner, more detailed, and more helpful than the "map_type" png maps used by the Britishers' {{Infobox UK place}} or the Aussies' {{Infobox Australian Place}}. Other png maps, like Image:EU_location_UK.png, could ake a hint from your easily adaptable svg maps as well.

(Maybe in the future we will have a template and/or web-crawling, screen-scraping bot that will write featured Indian location articles for us. Then all the Indian WPians can just hang around WP:PINQ while our articles write themselves. :-) Just a subliminal suggestion).

Since I noticed that you snapped the great lead image of the Climate of India FA, you are definitely entitled to the following:

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		For his FP-quality contributions to articles like Climate of India. Only his map-making and template-designing work can compete. Thanks. Saravask 05:11, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

It's amazing that you haven't gotten one of these already. Hasta mañana. Saravask 05:11, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Image:India-states-map2.gif

Hi, just for your information: your deletion request for Image:India-states-map2.gif was sitting in the "incomplete deletion requests". I have updated the entry, and you can add any comments on the deletion page if you want. Kind regards, Deadstar

IIJ

Hi. Sorry for the late response. I made the adjustments you requested; however, there seems to be an issue regarding how/when those changes show up--when I edited IIJ, the changes did not show up in some test articles I edited (even though I tried several hard reloads and test edits). I don't know if this has something to do with the fact that it is protected. Maybe they configured the software to delay updating the 7,000+ transclusions until the servers can handle the load? Thanks for pointing the issues out. If I happen to be taking time off in the future, you could also ask Ganeshk to take a look, since he probably has as much or more template experience as I do. Regards. Saravask 07:04, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Commercial Usage

Dear Planemad, keep up the wonderful work. I may have a requirement to use some of your art work in a commercial setting. Also would you want to contribute your skills in a commercial venture? LouvyJoseph