User talk:Omnedon/Archive

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MapScript

where can I learn more about this? I make maps from TIGER data but it's laborious, as I use Inkscape's bmp to svg conversion, and then have to clean it up. If MapScript can make things easier I'm interested. Thanks. You can answer here... ++Lar: t/c 21:48, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Glad you asked, because I find it extremely cool. It's open-source software available at http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ that lets one process TIGER and other mapping data in a variety of ways, to produce maps but also to do queries on maps without producing anything visual -- such as to look up the contents of a county, or find the name of the township in which a town is located. I started out using the CGI, but in the course of a day realized that what I really wanted was the MapScript interface, since I personally do almost everything in PHP (though it can also be used with Python, Perl, et cetera). You can take different sets of map data that are in varying projections and then output the combined map data in some other projection, and you can output the maps in various file formats. If I can answer any specific questions, let me know, as I've picked up quite a bit so far and have really enjoyed doing it. I'm hoping to finish the Indiana townships project soon, if I can get the bot flag for uploading all the resultant maps; I recently generated most of the articles for the townships themselves, and wanted to flesh them out further. With 1008 of them, it made sense to automate it as much as possible, not only to make it easier but also to ensure consistent results. Omnedon 02:55, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

User:File Upload Bot (Omnedon)

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If you'll have possibility, please consider replacement of previously uploaded PNG maps with SVG.

EugeneZelenko 16:39, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Image:Map highlighting Peoria City Township, Peoria County, Illinois.svg may be wrong

Hi. I noticed you posted a new map of the City of Peoria Township in Peoria County. The TIGER data on the 2000 Census appears to erroneously give the Township of the City of Peoria (Peoria City Township) a later border of the City of Peoria itself.

Because of some lawsuits in the early 1990s, the township limits (and the Peoria Public Schools District 150 border) are fixed at its 1991 border. The city of Peoria has expanded since then, and there are places inside the City of Peoria but in a different township. For example, census tract 1007 is the Shoppes at Grand Prairie, a new mall that is in the city limits but in Dunlap schools (and therefore Dunlap school taxes). en:Image:City of Peoria Township Peoria.PNG is relatively accurate for comparison. I'm not sure where there is valid vector data for the township however. --Closeapple 10:25, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know; I'll check it out. Omnedon 14:52, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Covington

Thanks for pointing out the Covington IN/IA mix-up. You can also use Template:Rename to tag images which should be renamed. There actually is a bot which performs rename-requests. I have a few more town pics from the region, and I was thinking of driving to towns in Champaign county. Do you use Commons:Geocoding in your images? --Dschwen 14:12, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Cool -- thanks, I didn't know about the rename template. I just recently added some location tags to a few of my images, and intend to do all of them. In fact I just now saw your coordinate conversion helper via your user page, and it looks like it will be very helpful and should make the process much easier. Nice work! I plan to finish off Vermilion County this spring -- that is, the process of having a photo or two of each town -- and I'll geocode any new photos as I go. Omnedon 14:46, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Map overlay in Google Earth

Hi! As a map contributor, you may find this project interesting: Commons:Geocoding/overlay. Huwmanbeing ☀★ 23:02, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		In consideration of the great number of excellent maps you've created and uploaded to Commons, particularly those for highways and townships, I here award you the Tireless Contributor Barnstar! Huwmanbeing 14;29, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Streator, IL

Hi. I have been looking at your maps of Illinois. Would you like to contribute to this Wikiversity project? It needs some GIS support. I have been using a public interface to the TIGER database online to produce basic situation maps but it is limited. --Una Smith (talk) 19:34, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Media Move Bot

Hello,

I just finished your application. You are now a approved user for the media move bot.

Best regards, Abigor talk 07:20, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much -- I appreciate that. Omnedon (talk) 14:20, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Couple other things on the Peoria County map

The new rendering (2010-11-23T12:34:55) of File:Map highlighting Peoria City Township, Peoria County, Illinois.svg seems to have an extraneous black border along the right and bottom. Also, do you happen to know the coordinates for the corners/sides of the maps you're rendering? I might make location map templates for nearby counties the same way as en:Template:Location map USA Illinois Peoria County for infobox pushpin maps on en.wiki. (There is also some other series of geo/location templates that also understand skew and rotation for images that don't match square latitude/longitude; but I don't remember what they're called, and it scares me.) If you're doing it by just eyeballing it, don't worry about it; I can do overlays on Google Earth and get a reasonable guess. Also, if it matters: you may want to look at en:Pettingill-Morron House for an example of what the default pushpin color looks like on en.wiki. Thanks for all the maps! --Closeapple (talk) 04:16, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I see what you mean about that border; thanks. As for the location maps, I can provide the edge coordinate if you'd like; but I already have some PHP code that generates locator maps, calculates the edge coordinates, and produces the template code. If you would like I would be glad to provide the maps and templates you're referring to, unless it's a project that you would enjoy working on. Regarding the pushpin colors, in other counties I've used maps that have no red highlighting at all, so that the same map can be used for any location in the county. Does that make sense? I just created such a map for Ogle County today, and it is used on the en:Brookville, Illinois article. Omnedon (talk) 04:45, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it seems reasonable to have a county locator map with no township highlighted. If you do that, remember to catch the counties that no longer have organized townships (some of them have numbered "road districts" instead, and I don't know if they're useful enough for federal data to care about); most of them are down in Southern Illinois. You say your PHP script already knows how to generate the locator map templates on its own? Excellent! --Closeapple (talk) 10:00, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

I have provided a county location map for Peoria County. Does the location of the Pettingill-Morron House appear to be correct on the map? Omnedon (talk) 14:19, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Looks right to me; it's on Moss Avenue just east of West Peoria. en:St. Bernard Parish (Peoria, Illinois) and en:Peoria Waterworks look right also. (Peoria Waterworks is a few hundred yards NE of the IL 29 interchange with the McClugage Bridge/U.S. 150.) --Closeapple (talk) 20:38, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Glad it seems to be correct. I went ahead and made a map and templates for en:Tazewell County too, and applied it to en:Groveland, Illinois. You mentioned wanting to do this with other counties around Peoria County; are there specific ones you'd like to have? Omnedon (talk) 22:51, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

As far as locator map backgrounds, Tazewell is the one besides Peoria that would be the most helpful for Peoria-area stuff, since it is the next most populated. Woodford is usually the "third" county in that group but is pretty sparse; if counties are being given priority by how quickly other Wikipedians can use them besides me, I would say Woodford is pretty far down on the list. However, if first priority is whether I can eyeball them for sanity, Woodford I'm familiar with. If the priority is locator maps first, the ones I'd be most likely to eventually use are downstate counties with a lot of Wikipedia articles: Champaign County (Champaign-Urbana and University of Illinois); Fulton County (sparse but lots of sites); LaSalle County (LaSalle-Peru); McLean County (Bloomington-Normal); Sangamon County (Springfield, Abe Lincoln sites). If the priority is locator maps for other Wikipedians, I'd guess:

1. If you're brave, some kind of Chicagoland map with Cook, DuPage, maybe Lake, and at least the the north part of Will; maybe Kendall, Kane, and part of McHenry in there if you want it not so narrow. Be warned that Chicagoland gets messy, though: for example File:Chicagoland Townships grays.PNG shows just townships; when you overlay the 150+ municipalities on top of that, it's spaghetti.
2. The Quad Cities: at least southern Rock Island County, Illinois and eastern Scott County, Iowa; or, if Iowa will make things hard, then just Rock Island County.
3. The other downstate ones mentioned above.

--Closeapple (talk) 08:48, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Maps and templates for Champaign and Fulton counties have been created. More to come... Omnedon (talk) 02:22, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Randolph County, IL, map

Hi, Omendon. I work for a law enforcement agency covering this county and have been working on a suitable map for a crash reference sheet that shows the townships, road district boundaries, rivers, and state routes. Probalby anything else would be clutter. I am capable of editing one in basic programs such as paint or photofiltre. I looked at the ones you have listed on your page and those appear to be beyond my capabilities. Would it be possible to send me a black .svt map of Randolph County-or at least one without the precint boundaries? They look really good and I appreciate any help. Thank you.

I'd be glad to provide you with a map; I just need to understand your needs a bit better. I'm not quite sure what you mean by a "black .svg map". You say need the township boundaries, rivers, state routes; all that is easily done, but I'm not sure what "road district boundaries" are. Omnedon (talk) 04:14, 3 May 2011 (UTC)