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OpenStreetMap[edit]

Hi PM, Have you met Harry Wood? He is the OpenStreetMap guy around here (if you got any questions with OSM). And there is the WikiProject OpenStreetMap. In a recent conversation, he mentioned that we can use Yahoo Maps to draw the roads, but you cannot name the streets unless you are physically at the place. Not sure if you knew this already. I am going to be drawing street maps of Chennai with the Yahoo overlay. Nice job with the Karl Schmidt Memorial. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 01:54, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Any chance you can e-mail me those Chennai Corporation maps? I could use them as a guide in naming the streets. I am currently just drawing the roads. The important thing to explain at the BarCamp would be that Wikimapia and Google MapMaker are copyrighted websites while OSM is freely licensed. I would prefer putting my hard work into OSM. Not sure if everyone understands the difference. More at OSM blog. Google MapMaker is better at the UI though. Hopefully OSM could pull some it's features. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 16:15, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Chennai Metro Map[edit]

I just noticed your Chennai Metro Map on GOOGLE maps, nice job. I just did a map of Protected areas of Tamil Nadu to give an overview. Any suggestions?, or better any fine tuning you can do? Marcus (talk) 04:20, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:Paritrana logo.png[edit]

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Map of Karkota Kingdom[edit]

The article on Rajatarangini would be greatly improved by a map of the Kashmir-based Karkota kingdom at its greatest extent, around 724 to 760 CE, as would the article on Lalitaditya Muktapida. Any idea where a copyright-free map could be found? Aymatth2 (talk) 02:13, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:AirIndiaExpressLogo.gif)[edit]

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Reply:Hi[edit]

Yes, I am from Chennai. tc :-) -RavichandarMy coffee shop 17:27, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm, cool-RavichandarMy coffee shop 12:12, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Hello[edit]

Hi there. I am from Chennai, but unfortunately I do not live there anymore :(. Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 11:38, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BTW if you are planning for a meetup with Chennai Wikipedians, do let me know. I do travel a bit to and fro. Cheers Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 15:36, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

wassup abu[edit]

i was just searching for images of kathipara , and i see ur name everywhere

shreepad - if u dont know who i am —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.75.199.85 (talk) 13:49, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delhi Locator Map[edit]

This map does not seem to contain the whole union territory of Delhi. I tried using coordinates in some towns under Delhi. The coordinates fell outside the map.--GDibyendu (talk) 17:08, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Indian political map[edit]

Hi Planemad

Thanks for your contribution on webpage on India. Can you please refer to http://india.gov.in/maps/indiaindex.php and ensure that you correct errors in union territories locations and kashmir.

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sserla (talk • contribs) 19:54, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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WUD[edit]

Sorry Arun. Didn't see your message until today - Amog | Talk • contribs 07:25, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tamil Nadu locator map[edit]

It seems this map does not show Ariyalur district. Can you please add it? Thanks.--GDibyendu (talk) 20:34, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Satvahana map[edit]

Hi,

I have uploaded a map called Satvahana.svg at "WikiProject Indian History Maps". I have used Inkscape to create it from another SVG found on the commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Satvahana.svg

Can you take a look at it and let me know if you have any suggestions?

There are a few problems which I will fix. I am still pretty new to Inkscape. 

 * Background is transparent
 * Bigger fonts for cities etc.

- C —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chetanv (talk • contribs) 07:19, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Mumbai area locator map.svg[edit]

Hello, thanks for your image contributions. Please see this deletion discussion over at Commons. Thank you, Cirt (talk) 15:30, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the coordinates tip[edit]

Thanks for the coordinates tip. But I am using a mash up using geopy for now, and it seems to be dong OK. Kumar Appaiah (talk) 08:10, 17 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PHP/MySQL is not my area, and I won't be able to help much. But I'll mail you anyway, and we can exchange details via mail.

Thanks! Kumar Appaiah (talk) 16:23, 17 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Maharashtra[edit]

I've added it, but it doesn't seem to have made an effect. Could you please verify? =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:08, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, now done with a bit of trial and error. I guess it was a cache problem the first time, that's why wasn't viewing them. Tnkx for the map. =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:54, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Maps for Bangladesh[edit]

Hello there, I am requesting you to please create maps for Bangladesh. I have seen the map quality created for the Indian cities and they are excellent, good job! But unfortunately, there aren't many maps of cities or upazilas of Bangladesh, could you please be able to create another version of this map: File:Bangladesh subdistricts.png quite similar to India? Thank you! Mohsin (talk) 10:07, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm lost! Help please —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shillika (talk • contribs) 04:14, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bangalore map[edit]

Bangalore

I would appreciate your help in making Bangalore street map as requested here. I have uploaded file:Bangalore street Map.png from openstreet.org. I would like your guidance to make it svg and make coordinates. Raise lkblr (talk) 08:39, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Exaclty, that I had seen your Chennai map, thanks for the reply. I have uploaded new version taking down the coordinates, with Latitudes from 77.46 to 77.72, Longitude from 12.83 to 13.06. It covers all prominent places of Bangalore, though city limits are not shown in the map. 04:01, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
I have added the code. It does not seem to work. See Koramangala. The red dot is not showing up. Please do check it. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 05:55, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Raise lkblr, Please export the map in SVG format and upload it to Commons. It should be named, Bengaluru area locator map.svg for consistency purposes. Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 06:12, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Wow.. that was too fast :) Thanks to Planemad and Ganeshk. As for svg, we can export from openstreet.org in different formats like osm.xml but i could not figure out svg. Let me try it in some articles first, Cheers! Raise lkblr (talk) 08:21, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Too many roads there, zooming out in osm did not help. That Im now introduced to osm, lemme first play with it a lil, so no timeframe yet for better Bangalore map as of now. I see you contributed a lot to indian jurisdiction maps, Great work! Wish you a Happy New Year! Raise lkblr (talk) 09:10, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It is possible to export in SVG format from OpenStreetMap using OSM's "export tab". However I've had some difficultly getting this to work properly myself. Managed it just for simple maps like this one: File:Holborn-viaduct-map.svg ...and even then the process was very fiddly. Maybe it's not realistic to attempt to make an SVG image of such an intricate detailed map. I need to experiment a little more with this myself. Might work better with OSM's "Osmarender" tool for larger exports. But then wikipedia's SVG renderer doesn't always do everything consistently (same as inkscape for example). All in all it's quite tricky, so I'd say stick with raster images for this kind of detailed map. -- Harry Wood (talk) 14:08, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re:completed series for state/ut locator maps[edit]

I am done with the updates to WP:IIJ. Please check and let me know if you find anything missing/inaccurate. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 11:41, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For consistency, can you please remove the district lines from the Commons:File:India Andaman and Nicobar locator map.svg and rename it India Andaman and Nicobar Islands locator map.svg? Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 11:48, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I have updated IIJ to use the new map. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 18:57, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Panorama[edit]

PM, What is the trick to make this picture? I would like to do one of these if I know how. Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 21:05, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

maharashtra map[edit]

District headquarters of Vidarbha region (esp. Gadchiroli, Bhandara) are wrongly placed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.95.38.250 (talk) 14:12, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

the position of the headquarters itself are geographically correct( see Gadchiroli Bhandara), but its the district boundaries that have been misplaced. unfortunately, unless i can lay my hands on better quality district level data, correcting them will involve a lot of manual work -- PlaneMad|YakYak 17:44, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Are you....[edit]

... studying @ Rajiv Gandhi college of engg? -- Tinu Cherian - 11:14, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Madras Hunt Map of 1911 & 1913[edit]

Greetings, I ran across this Madras Hunt Map of 1911 & 1913 which I thought you may be interested in if you have not seen it already. It came from an interesting chap just a couple years younger than me V.Narayan Swami who I have been in touch with while writing about Stephen_Ponsonby_Peacocke and Sispara. Cheers, Marcus (talk) 18:07, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re: College. That was previous message who asked your college. I sent Hunt map.Marcus (talk) 17:57, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Added your photos to Chennai Portal[edit]

Added your photos to Chennai Portal Portal:Chennai/Selected_panorama/Archives, Thank you very much. Amol.Gaitonde 16:35, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

India railway network[edit]

Compliments on great work on File:India_railway_schematic_map.svg. Last year there were few significant additions to indian railway networks, which are notable enough to include in the network schematics.

  1. Anantnag-Srinagar-Baramulla in J&K "floating/isolated line", which is yet to be connected to Udhampur. (broadguage - redline)
  2. Agartala in Tripura is connected by extension from already existing Kumarghat. (meterguage - easily convertible to broadguage - so red dotted green)
  3. Line between Mangalore-Sakleshpur in Karnataka guage conversion over, and trains running. Change line to red broadguage.(change to red line)

These 3, especially first 2 are remarkable additions, hence deserve updation of schematics. Kindly look into the matter, thanks in advance. Notetherenot^ (talk) 06:27, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Are you there? Notetherenot^ (talk) 07:06, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Okey, done here. [1] Notetherenot^ (talk) 09:14, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the reply. I did with paint, since the map was not updated since 2006. Also few additions were very important to incorporate. Take your own time for svg. Let me look into inkspace. Regards, Notetherenot^ (talk) 08:56, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pastebin.ca[edit]

Yes, it's open source, it's not that hard to find the codebase. Other than that, go ahead and nominate; it was there when List of pastebins was around, and there have been no prior objections when it was referenced. --Slepp (talk) 20:53, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I requested deletion myself. --Slepp (talk) 21:36, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi dude this is Reginold Mano Antony[edit]

Hi dude this is Reginold Mano Antony, a top contributor for google maps for the Ambattur Region, I came to know that you are the top guy in Koyambedu, I want to know this particular address in koyambedu, can you please let me know about it???


Veritas Infosystems,

1111/5,P.H.Road,

Koyambedu,

Chennai-107.

I have an interview in that company can you let me know about the place.

With Regards, Reginold Mano Antony, 9444125875 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.193.226.2 (talk) 14:19, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No idea mate. and i have no idea who told you i was the top guy in koyambedu? you make me sound like some gangster :P -- PlaneMad|YakYak 15:52, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey this is Gautam.. I just wanted some help.. saw ur Chola nade map, I want to make a similar one can u help?

Bangalore meetup[edit]

Please leave a message here to indicate which area would be most convenient for you to meet up. Regards, SBC-YPR (talk) 06:11, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 1 – June 2009[edit]

Project news
Congratulations to the West Bengal workgroup for having their flagship article featured on the Main Page! The Indian states workgroup is also involved in maintaining articles about India's states and union territories. »

WikiProject Indian roads was recently started as a new workgroup, to standardize and improve articles related to Indian roads, mainly the National and State Highways. After all, India has the second largest road network in the world.

Iravan, the son of Arjuna, is now our 85th good article. How do we know this? Since last year, more processes have been automated, increasing productivity. Article alerts update the project with what's happening to India-related articles, from copyright violations to featured article candidates.

To do…
During the last few weeks, peer reviews for the recent general election and 2003 Afro-Asian Games (held in Hyderabad) were opened and are waiting for more comments, as are several articles at the peer review department. Sikkim has been nominated for FAR, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay has been nominated for FAC. »

Currently, 11,030 Indian articles need images. Please improve these pages, especially if you enjoy photography! We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors…
The last newsletter was written a year ago. In June 2008, Indian Premier League was "hot" on Wikipedia, but the article about this year's IPL has attracted 477 editors, or 53% more than the previous year! Even the number of articles in the scope of our project jumped by a whopping 18,500+ articles in an year. The 3.2-year-old India quiz continues to attract old and new Wikipedians, so join in the fun!

Wikipedians are organizing a meetup in Bangalore on July 4 or 5. If you are interested, head over to the page and add your name! Topics of discussion include Indian language editions of Wikipedia and Wikimedia India.

RegentsPark, one of the prominent members of our project, was promoted to adminship this year. If you'd like to know who are the most avid editors of Wikipedia by number of edits, refer to this list.

"While this issue has been resolved, one asks the question – what happens when there is a conflict of opinions? What about a Wikipedia entry on India and Pakistan, or the LTTE and the Tamils? Who can edit? Will the information be true?" writes B. Narasimhan of MiD DAY as deeper implications of the Scientology arbitration case,1 reminding us of the core principles of verifiability and the neutral point of view.

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Delhi svg map[edit]

Hi Planemad, not sure if you're aware of this, but the SVG map that you created for Delhi has been marked for AfD here. This may be because because someone confused "source" to mean the actual creator/owner of the content, vs. the image that your SVG file was based on. Probably worth mentioning this at the AfD. Thanks AreJay (talk) 22:42, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikMeetup Bangalore 3[edit]

WikMeetup Bangalore is scheduled for Sunday, 5 July, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM and I have emailed you with more details. Please ping me if you require any more information. Hoping to meet you at the meetup day. Take care -- Tinu Cherian - 08:47, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Climate Map of India[edit]

I appreciate the effort you have taken to create the Climate map of India. however, i will like to point out that the base map of India is incorrect. Can you please re-make the climate map by choosing the correct map of India with correctly shown international boundaries. perpetrators can claim whatever they want, it does not mean that we have to accept the altered map of original gazetted india. it is only a matter of time and we shall claim back our land from those land thieves.

regards,

disturbed Indian, 203.206.220.142 (talk) 07:33, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009[edit]

Project news
A number of India-related articles have lost their featured article status, including Sikkim and Mumbai. The article about Gandhi was also demoted for referencing and image quality issues. Since then, Mumbai has been brought back to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Kensplanet and others.

Transport in India was promoted to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Rsrikanth05, SBC-YPR and GDibyendu.

Several new workgroups have been formed: WikiProjects Railways in India, Education in India and Transport in India. Please join us if you're interested in those topics!

To do...
The articles that have been selected for our latest collaborations of the month are history of Mumbai, Indian Railways, rail transport in India, Indian general election, 2009 and telecommunications in India. We need your help to improve them!

These India-related articles are currently on featured article review: Kerala (FAR), Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (FAR) and rail transport in India (FAR). Would you allow these articles to lose their FA status?

Wikipedia Takes Chennai – a scavenger hunt and free-content photography contest – has started in Chennai, along the same lines as Wikipedia Takes The City.

We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors...
Wikipedians in Bangalore organised a meetup on 5 July 2009; thanks to Tinu Cherian for hosting the event! Arunram and Tinu Cherian wrote extensively about the meetup, which was also covered by Wikizine, Headlines India and The Wikipedia Signpost. Photos have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Sunil Abraham from the Centre for Internet and Society has offered to help host such events in the future. All in all, the meetup was a great success. Watch out for the next meetup! »

Nichalp, an Indian bureaucrat and major contributor to more than 23 India-related featured articles and lists, was desysopped over allegations of paid editing and using sock puppets. An RfC about paid editing was opened as a result of this incident.

A prolific editor and administrator, Bhadani is among the top ten Wikipedians by number of edits across the English Wikipedia. Congratulations to Bhadani for also making the most number of edits among Indian Wikipedians!

Are you subscribed to wikimediaindia-l to learn about the latest developments of forming the Indian chapter of Wikimedia? Did you know that there are IRC channels for Wikipedians interested in India like you? Check them out at #wikipedia-in connect and #wikimedia-in connect!

Wikipedia's India quiz remains a hotspot of the community by continuing to attract old and new Wikipedians. You are invited to join in and have fun!

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Tamilnadu map <> books project >> PDF[edit]

Thanks for your contribution to WikiPedia.

I am noticing problem with PDF printing of Tamilnadu map with locator (?) on it using wiki books project. The location dot is printing way below/outside the map. Example: Aragalur article in User:Pinecar/Books/Aragalur. Can you help by fixing it or giving me pointers to fix or suggest who can help fixing. Thanks in advance. --Pinecar (talk) 04:50, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Map needed[edit]

I think a map is NEEDED for 2009 India floods as it relates to a current event on the main page. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:49, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect India map[edit]

Hi,

I saw an incorrect Indian map in your Kozhikode wiki page. Please would you be able to change it to one recognized the Government of India?

Thanks, Sreehari. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.36.135.133 (talk) 12:32, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

July 2009[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from National Institute of Design, Bangalore. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Please do not removed maintenance templates, particularly those concerning missing references, without resolving the problem. RadioFan (talk) 19:46, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Indian maps[edit]

Hi, great work with the Indian maps!. I was wondering though if you could produce another set of svg maps for the Indian states but do them in the style of Template:Location map Pakistan like User:Nordnordwest has done. You see there is a drive to standardise the pin maps. Is there any chance you could produce a nice set of svgs in this style to use in the infoboxes? E.g see Varanasi we need standardised maps not ones with pink and brown in together which look unprofessional! Maybe create the state maps and then include a national state locator in the top corner like File:India Uttar Pradesh locator map.svg so it is easier to know where it is? Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:26, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK thanks, I appreciate your response. Himalayan 08:14, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey![edit]

Great to see you back on wp. Hows the design stuff going, and what does interaction design involve? Amog | Talk • contribs 08:01, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

College is horrible as usual. Though I managed to escape the past week, since they had me redesign the cse department website :) (which should probably be up sometime this week). Hope your birthday went well. Oh, and you should take a look at this[2] Amog | Talk • contribs 06:02, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
'Grats on the latest achievements! Bloody Awesome! - Amog | Talk • contribs 14:32, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Templates for deletion nomination of Template:IN[edit]

Template:IN has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:39, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia WikMeetup Bangalore 6[edit]

Hi there, WikMeetup6 Bangalore is scheduled for Sunday, 11 Oct, 2009 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM at CIS Bangalore office. Please sign up if you are attending. Please ping me if you require any more information. Hoping to meet you on the meetup day. Take care -- Tinu Cherian - 10:33, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kanhopatra[edit]

User:Abecedare told me that you regularly create images for WP India. GA Kanhopatra has no images of the saint so I have formally requested at Wikipedia:Graphic_Lab/Illustration_workshop#Kanhopatra and would request you to help and create the images. Thanks a lot. --Redtigerxyz Talk 11:29, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bandra West[edit]

Hi,

I've been looking to download a detailed map of Bandra West. [3]

Could you guide me to a good source for a vector format of this map ?

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.169.104.220 (talk) 16:28, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

openstreetmap is your best bet if you want a free vector map. The mumbai data for osm is currently not in a very good shape, but i checked bandra and it seems like somebody has been contributing from there. if you have some time on your hand, you could add in whatever details you need and export it from there -- PlaneMad|YakYak 18:37, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great work[edit]

Hello Arun, Great work over there. Chennai is my hometown and right now Iam in Germany for my masters. Keep me updated about wiki regarding anything in Chennai. Will try to help u out. ok.

Cheers Vimal —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virtualvimal (talk • contribs) 14:17, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia WikMeetup Bangalore 8[edit]

WikMeetup 8 Bangalore is scheduled for Sunday, 20 Dec, 2009 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM. Please ping me if you require any more information. Hoping to meet you on the meetup day. Take care -- Tinu Cherian - 11:30, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pune area locator map[edit]

i'm tryin 2 create a pune area locator map...i dunno if i should use osm or create somethin on inkscape...plus i tried uploading a osm of pune area but couldnt get things ryt... thnxNirvanareborn(TeenSpirit) 07:36, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

About the Ahmedabad BRTS map[edit]

The map is quite impressive and informative not only about the BRTS system, but also about how the city is laid out. And the usage of colours is appropriate as well. This is not seen on many network maps around the world. The map is well worthy of coming up on the bus stops rather than the current ugly ones, just that they would need the Gujarati station names as well. Congratulations for the fabulous work

As for myself, I am a student of architecture and I make fantasy network maps for fun.

P.S. There is one mistake in the map. The ring road from Narol to Naroda Patiya runs alongside the BRTS line. They are not on separate roads as shown in the map. 

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.204.16.65 (talk) 11:31, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
hey, thanks for the feedback :D i had actually forwarded the map to the ias officer in charge of janmarg, but no reply yet :/ the map was made using the existing one as the source, so its possible that its wrong and i'll try correcting it. id love to see your work, drop me a line arun.planemad@gmail.com -- PlaneMad|YakYak 16:33, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Quality Image Nomination[edit]

Hi Planemad! I have recently nominated an image uploaded by you for Quality Image Assessment. See here. If it is possible for you then please participate in the discussion. As other users from Commons are reviewing the image. Thanks! --JovianEye (talk) 04:41, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Updated India state locator maps[edit]

Replied on my talk page. If you would recreate your own maps with the new graphic without colours and lightly shade in railway stations and lines in black I'd fully accept it. If you could update your set up maps taking out the colour and following the graphic guidlines of the new one then I'm sure we could add your railway reuiqrements. Uou are completely free to recreate File:India Maharashtra location map.svg in the same graphic as the new updated version but with your modifications; the distance guage and the railway/hub links. As long as it is still clear and doesn't look cluttered I think this would be OK. If you would kindly update all of your maps in the improved plain, clear graphic I think we could probably continue using them, and it would make things a lot easier.. Perhaps the reason is because you are no longer active on wikipedia.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:54, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is Kashmir not part of India or abandoned?[edit]

Black border denotes the official boundary of India according to the Indian government, but only the yellow areas come under Indian jurisdiction

Hi Arun

It was lovely to see map of India but I felt bad when I saw upper portion of our country. Why have you not added Kashmir part into Indian map? It is shocking that an Indian is showing India like this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 15.219.201.75 (talk) 04:46, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your feedback. I have not added or removed any part of the country according to my will, since i am no one to decide that. But it is a simple graphic representation of the territories under Indian jurisdiction. That part of Kashmir not in indian control is called Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) and is worth a read to have some historical knowledge of the Kashmir conflict. Hope that clarifies your doubt -- PlaneMad|YakYak 06:49, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ripon Building Panorama[edit]

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I had nominated File:Ripon Building panorama.jpg for featured pictures at Commons and guess what, its has been featured!! Cheers! --JovianEye (talk) 03:07, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A Request[edit]

Hi Arun, I was greatly impressed with your maps especially the one of the Ahmedabad BRTS. If do find some free time could you please render the map for Bangalore metro rail ? Thank you and Regards! --Johnxxx9 (talk) 12:03, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Planemad, I saw your nice map of the Indian railway system based on OSM data (and, by chance, I am familiar with the excellent mapping of Chennai you did where my wife comes from). I wonder if you might be able and willing to help in a similar undertaking: for an article in WP I need a map of the present day railway system of Mexico. Recently I entered all railway lines I know (I lived in Mexico quite some time and travelled a lot) into OSM and I believe it is nearly complete. I would be interested in a map with a similar background layer as the one you used, but differentiating the lines with are in use (railway = rail) and those disused (railway = abandoned). Do you think you could help? Regards HJPD (talk) 07:47, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ariyalur district is missing in Tamil Nadu map[edit]

Can you modify Tamil Nadu map? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kurumban (talk • contribs) 02:27, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]



WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 1 - (June 2010)[edit]

Project News

WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving article quality. A number of the project's featured articles underwent featured article reviews over the past year. Of these, Darjeeling and Flag of India survived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period, Gangtok, Harbhajan Singh, Darjeeling and Mysore were featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse as Political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760), Marwari horse and Iravan were promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number of good articles, however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number of featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.

Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a large scale disruption of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010.

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Current proposals and discussions
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Ahmedabad Airport logo in India airport map[edit]

Hi Ganesh Please change Ahmadabad airport logo as red plane in map as it is international airport as other airport shows on map. Ahmadabad Airport is international airport but logo shows in map as domestic airport, if you can change that be great93.97.48.183 (talk) 02:45, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Locator Map of Tripura.[edit]

I have found in Wikimedia Commons that you have uploaded similar locator maps of different Indian states with colourful district divisions. It has indeed has helped Wikipedia a lot. But I found that although there are such maps of many North-East Indian states the locator map of Tripura is missing. I request to upload a similar locator map of Tripura with diferent districts in different colours. I hope you will keep my request. -Trinanjon Basu (talk) 14:23, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday[edit]

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Location maps[edit]

I have been working on the Madhya Pradesh districts for some time. I find that location maps are not available for certain districts – Ashoknagar District (split from Guna District), Alirajpur District (split from Jhabua District), Burhanpur District (split from Khandwa District), Singrauli District (split from Sidhi District), and Anuppur District (split from Shahdol District). It would be great, if you could help in developing location maps for these districts and possibly also modifying the location maps of the districts from which they were split. Cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 04:44, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:SVCE logo.png[edit]

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Tamil Nadu template does not show Ariyalur District.[edit]

Hi, I am from Tamil Wikipedia. In Tamilnadu template map it does not show Ariyalur district. Can you look in to this template/map. template is {{இந்திய அதிகார அமைப்புகள் தகவல்பெட்டி}} --Kurumban (talk) 00:34, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delhi Metro Map[edit]

Kindly update the map of Delhi Metro

Thanks!Mittal.fdk 02:40, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Chennai[edit]

Hi! Look into this whenever you can - Amog | Talk • contribs 16:20, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]


WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010[edit]

English WikiProject News

After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias.

Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki.


What's New?

Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.

The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc.

The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011.

In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue.

Complete To Do List
News from Indian-language Wikipedias
  • The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.
The Tamil Wikipedia stall at the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 in Coimbatore in June 2010.
Jimmy Wales introduces the Malayalam Wikipedia CD of 500 selected articles during his key note address at Wikimania 2010 at Gdansk.
  • The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research.


Community news
The first meetup in Delhi on 22 September 2010.

Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup.

Arun Ram, Shiju Alex and Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on 24 September 2010.

Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation.

Jimmy Wales speech at the Mumbai Wikipedia Meetup #3 on 31 October 2010. Intro by User:Bishdatta & User:Arunram. (Recorded by User:AshLin.)

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010.

The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day.

The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.

Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.

Current proposals and discussions
  • This interesting discussion on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion.

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