Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Roman Empire in 125AD

Location of the Legions of the Roman Empire in 125AD[edit]

Reason: very detailed, high quality, very informative
Articles this image appears in: List of Roman legions, Hadrian
Creator: Andrei nacu

Support as nominator --Nergaal (talk) 21:27, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Part of current-day-egypt seems cut off at the bottom. I know it's at the very extreme edge of the roman empire, but if this picture is meant to give a complete and full view of the empire it should be included. Fransw (talk) 22:31, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Should I rename the nomination/caption to something like "Roman Legions in 125AD" instead?

Question - Why is the Mediterranean tilted to northeast? -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:25, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ha? Where do you see Mediterranean? Nergaal (talk) 00:21, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Mare Internum" Gary King (talk) 03:11, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that, but where is it to the NE? Or better said, where else shoud/could it be placed? Nergaal (talk) 03:15, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm assuming they were referring to the Sea's label, in that it's tilted towards the top-right corner of the image. I think it looks fine, since the label stretches across two bodies of water. Gary King (talk) 03:29, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What I mean is that North is not pointing up! -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 08:03, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't think this Image:Map_of_Europe_(political).png is rotated by more than 10 degrees. It is definately not pointing towards NW. Nergaal (talk) 08:32, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I would guess about 20º. Please compare with this one -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 09:53, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - The best way to resolve this would probably to have a compass on the image to show the direction of north. Gary King (talk) 14:00, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Not really, because this is not a cylindrical projection and the direction of north varies from place to place. The best way would be to depict the geographic grid of meridians and parallels, and rotate the whole map so that the central meridian is represenred vertical -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 14:07, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    - Ah yeah, that's better. Gary King (talk) 14:13, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note I updated the name of the nomination and the caption to focus on the legion locations. Nergaal (talk) 06:13, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Sorry, this just is not a professional-quality map. The coastlines are very roughly drawn, the lettering is typographically displeasing, the legend doesn't fit inside its allotted box, etc. For an amateur-drawn map, it's very good, but nevertheless it is unambiguously an amateur-drawn map. —An gr 15:03, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have concrete suggestions how to solve these issues? Nergaal (talk) 17:07, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 07:51, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why has the caption been changed? This map is not just about the legions, it's about the whole empire, cities, provinces, roads, mines, barbarian tribes etc. Commentators have focused only on the quality of the geographical projection, not on the massive amount of detail, which makes it easily the most comprehensive of its kind available online. The map is useful for a whole range of articles. EraNavigator (talk) 11:40, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]