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boring old stuff aka archive (any help with translating the title to French is appreciated)

Guadiana

Thank you for the work. The map is better with the Portuguese tributaries of Guadiana. Cheers. Augusta 89 (d) 14 janvier 2013 à 10:48 (CET)

All MAMMALS… NOOOO !

Hello Rbrausse! I'm trying your QGIS tutorial (I'm really interesting, even if I already don't have enough arms…). To create Relief and Minimap groups it's okay, but I have a file named All_MAMMALS_OCT2012.shp and I think I guess why QGIS fail to add it How can you keep just one species from this file? Is there another file to upoload, a way to split it? Best regards, Totodu74 (devesar…) 21 janvier 2013 à 17:53 (CET)

hmm, so far I only used the pre-splitted files IUCN provided: terrestrial mammals and marine mammals.

Give it at try, both shape files worked on my machine. QGIS will be _slow_ when you use a shape file with multiple layers (i.e. species), so using the terrestrial (or marine) subset of the ranges is a Good Idea(tm). Rbrausse (d) 21 janvier 2013 à 18:13 (CET)

Thanks, I keep you informed! Totodu74 (devesar…) 21 janvier 2013 à 18:45 (CET)

Ok good, I'll know next time I just have to be patient Totodu74 (devesar…) 21 janvier 2013 à 18:58 (CET)

one way to improve the overall performance is splitting IUCN's shape file - short how-to, to give you an idea about the procedure:

• load e.g. MAMMTERR (-> about 1 to 2 minutes on my rather slow laptop)
• set a query on the layer (e.g. « "BINOMIAL" LIKE "A%" » -> result is a list of species starting with the letter A)
• save the filtered layer as ESRI shapefile
• load the newly created layer (-> a few seconds)

manipulating of the data will be _much_ faster (though you have to load/unload more often or handle multiple layers in parallel)

happy mapping ;) Rbrausse (d) 21 janvier 2013 à 19:33 (CET)

Oh Good Idea(tm), but I tried another : I loaded the map once, but I "un-ticked" the layer MAMMTERR then saved my project, and the file seems to load quickly now. Now I think I just have to send the query then tick the box. Your tutorial is really good, thanks a lot for your work, and your teaching. Totodu74 (devesar…) 21 janvier 2013 à 20:16 (CET)

You're welcome ! (and it would be a shame to ignore the data treasure IUCN gave us with the spatial data archives)

I'm curious about Givet's (French) version of the tutorial he promised/announced some time ago : He's using a different method, combining QGIS and Inkscape for his maps. Rbrausse (d) 21 janvier 2013 à 20:55 (CET)

Hum...

[1] • Chaoborus 9 avril 2013 à 15:10 (CEST)

Sorry, I realized it shortly after I made the mistake but wasn't able to correct it as of 3 or 4 edit conflicts in a row. I didn't suppressed your comment on purpose, honestly! rbrausse (d) 9 avril 2013 à 15:14 (CEST)

Ok, no problem. • Chaoborus 9 avril 2013 à 15:31 (CEST)

Thanks! (and sometimes ABF is the right thing to do :)) rbrausse (d) 9 avril 2013 à 15:34 (CEST)

Well... did I implied you did it on purpose ? • Chaoborus 9 avril 2013 à 22:08 (CEST)

nah - I'm not *that* misanthropic ^^ rbrausse (d) 9 avril 2013 à 22:52 (CEST)

Commons imports

Thanks for your imports ! I'm only checking data, and planed to import later what can be done.
Nothing related to that: do you need some bot help for distribution map? I can easely build you a list of reptiles taxa without distribution map and associate with it the ReptileDB/UICN distribution range.

Regards, Hexasoft (discuter) 10 avril 2013 à 21:21 (CEST)

The only reason was your comment « quelqu'un comprend l'hébreu ? » - this is just another Wikipedia project (JAWP) and 99 % of the important techniques and templates are language independent (though the right-to-left script is driving me crazy....) ;)

And thanks a lot for your offer, but at the moment my family-by-family approach is working fine. If you're willing to shepherd your bot in the direction of map data/article matching: The only reliable source for informations about existing shapes is a dbf included in the ESRI archive. rbrausse (d) 10 avril 2013 à 21:37 (CEST)

I think english translation for « c'est de l'hebreu pour moi » is « it is all Greek to me », which was a kind of joke .

No problem for distribution maps. I'm in a "devel" phase (and I'm changing work from sysadmin to devel) so I'm looking for C/Shell coding stuff Hexasoft (discuter) 10 avril 2013 à 22:01 (CEST)

haha! In German we use Spanish for this kind of saying: "Das kommt mir spanisch vor" :)

About the map/article mapping: The ESRI archives include a .dbf, described in the metadata document. I think a good way would be pre-filtering for 'PRESENCE' = 1 (IUCN's data is IMO not very accurate and it gets worse for species not known to be extant past 1980) and match the remaining unique 'BINOMIAL' fields against RDB and/or your article base. rbrausse (d) 10 avril 2013 à 22:16 (CEST)

Well, that's simple! What data do you need on the output? . The goal is so to generate a list of species that has a "PRESENCE=1" in the DBF file (for reptiles) and that are present in RDB (and so on WP:fr), and if it can help I can add other fields (i.e. the subspecies if mentionned, and/or shape ID…). Just ask Hexasoft (discuter) 11 avril 2013 à 14:16 (CEST)

no subspecies for reptiles (at least for now, no idea if IUCN will provide more detailed data in future releases) :)

the other fields except BINOMIAL and PRESENCE are either GIS-specific (SHAPE_*) and of no use in a text-centered view or of unbelievable bad data quality* (e.g. YEAR, CITATION). Sorting according the higher taxas (with Projet:Herpétologie/Classification ReptileDB 2 as framework) would be helpful as it allows to select manageable mapping tasks.

*) excellent example for the shit-in-shit-out mantra of data processing

rbrausse (d) 11 avril 2013 à 14:37 (CEST)

Hehe. Note that the filtering is very "low": I found 15743 entries in the DBF file, and only 94 are not "PRESENCE = 1". If I sort by binomial name I get 3086 entries, which seems a little "high" as RDB don't have so much species… I will treat the data to have a clearer vision of its content. Hexasoft (discuter) 11 avril 2013 à 21:01 (CEST)

I thought the latest release of RDB includes nearly 10000 species? (And one IUCN map for every three species I see in your genera articles feels about right) rbrausse (d) 11 avril 2013 à 21:31 (CEST)

Eek ! I think I missed a magnitude order . Need to stop wine at the end of the day, in particular after forge… Hexasoft (discuter) 11 avril 2013 à 21:40 (CEST)

Ok, job done. Look at your subpage Discussion_utilisateur:Rbrausse/IUCN. The process:

• only species that has "PRESENCE=1" in the DBF file
• only species that are known in ReptileDB list (update of 2013-03)
• only species that don't still has a {{carte UICN}} (using my local cache. I may have included some articles that has map added recently)
• sorted by IUCN family, then sorted by genus name, then sorted by species name, each with a wikilink

Let me know if it match your needs. Regards, Hexasoft (discuter) 11 avril 2013 à 21:55 (CEST)

wow, this is great! (only 1480 shapes left to process :)) The Science of Discworld IV is a good read. The book even includes the Librarian rbrausse (d) 11 avril 2013 à 22:10 (CEST)

Eublepharis macularius

Hi Rbrausse,

I am currently working on Eublepharis macularius. The range map we have for this species for now is pretty bad. As I noticed that you're kind of a big boss for making beautiful distribution maps, could you make a new one for the leopard gecko? It is not listed on the UICN red list but I've uploaded two maps that I illegally took from my books: [2] and [3]. Please let me know if you can do that (if not,never mind!). Thank you! Goodshort (d) 3 juillet 2013 à 00:35 (CEST)

hmm, tricky...

freehand drawing is absolutely not my field of experience, but I'll try it. Could you provide me with authors and titles of the "decentralised backup copies" (:P), so I can attribute the distribution source?

Thanks & greetings, rbrausse (d) 3 juillet 2013 à 15:14 (CEST)

I botched together something

The result is in general similar to both maps you provided, but I excluded the uncertain area in Iran (similar to all my maps) and simplified the overall shape of the inland range (both for copyright and credibility reasons).

As soon as I know about the data source I'll upload the beautyresult to Commons.

Cheers, rbrausse (d) 3 juillet 2013 à 16:36 (CEST)

Hi Rbrausse!

Sorry, I didn't notice that you had responded. Thank you very much! The two sources I used are :

• (fr) Olivier Antonini, Le gecko léopard, Animalia éditions, 2009, 136 p. (ISBN 2-915740-78-X), p. 9
• (en) Hermann Seufer, Yuri Kaverkin et Andreas Kirschner (éditeur), The Eyelash Geckos, Karlsruhe (Allemagne), Kirschner & Seufer Verlag, 2005, 238 p. (ISBN 3-9804207-8-7), p. 111

Cheers, Goodshort (d) 3 juillet 2013 à 22:43 (CEST)

Repartition map

Hello,
are you still around? (you don't contribute here for a while). I hope you are fine.
A user is writing an article and is looking for a repartition map (and all distribution data is available). Can you do that for us? If not I can build my own, of course, but you are a "professionnal" of the distribution map .

Regards, Hexasoft (discuter) 30 septembre 2013 à 20:24 (CEST)

more or less around - I kind of lost track of mapping after the release of Red List 2013.1 (too many RL projects, current spatial data not published).

but anyway. I just loaded the new reptiles file and my QGIS desk seems to be still working; in general I'm able to produce more maps.

my RL workload is still high; probably for the next few months, but one or three "contract" maps per day aren't a problem.

Yours, rbrausse (d) 1 octobre 2013 à 09:33 (CEST)

Hey, I saw your message here (I follow every page I write on ).

For this map in fact it was simple, so I did it myself . I resurected an old program that generate maps from country list that I wrote years ago.

The the block problem yes of course. It is accessible for any regular users, and (of course) only apply for your account, when you are logged.

You have to make a request on Wikipédia:Requête aux administrateurs page. I'm pretty sure you can write it in english. Regards, Hexasoft (discuter) 1 octobre 2013 à 21:27 (CEST)

ha! you're too impatient! :P and thanks for the tip - I'll dig out my most polite vocabulary (*ahem*) and beg the admins for an exemption ;) rbrausse (d) 1 octobre 2013 à 21:46 (CEST)

welcome back ! 7 octobre 2013 à 16:52 (CEST)

Whew! I'm still welcome ;) Thanks! (while Givet is still AWOL on a wikibreak :() rbrausse (d) 7 octobre 2013 à 18:24 (CEST)

Map Gaus in Germany

Hi

Thnaks for the map and Translation.

One small detail, my mistake : Tirol-Voralberg isn't correst, tyrol-Voralberg is better. I'm guilty of this mistake. Thanks you for the modifications.

Sincerly

--Le Conteur (discuter) 9 décembre 2013 à 18:14 (CET)

Amphisbaena gracilis

Hello, You did a beautiful map for Amphisbaena gracilis in 2013, but the distribution has change. Can you make an other one? Thanks! (I hope my English is understandable) --Moon rabbit 365 (discuter) 3 juillet 2016 à 16:36 (CEST) Edit : Prionailurus rubiginosus needs a new map too --Moon rabbit 365 (discuter) 3 juillet 2016 à 16:39 (CEST)

Hi Moon rabbit 365!

I mostly stopped doing stuff in the wikiworld and I'm not sure if I'm ready to come back :)

The setup I used is described on Commons, though: distribution maps with QGIS, maybe you or someone from your excellent cartography project is willing to pick this up?

yours, rbrausse (d) 3 juillet 2016 à 17:52 (CEST)

Ok, I will try by myself. It seems complicated! Thanks for the link --Moon rabbit 365 (discuter) 4 juillet 2016 à 16:57 (CEST)