User talk:Ixnayonthetimmay

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Ixnayonthetimmay, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Queen Creek

Very nice work on the Queen Creek page! BJTalk 01:23, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MT Maps

Hey, nice work with the metro Tucson maps. The previous maps I developed on my own, using data from the U.S. Census. The unincorporated areas are Census Designated Places (CDPs). If I remember correctly, I searched the U.S. Census site and eventually found them. I don't know how helpful that is, but let me know if you have any other questions. Good luck! Mxpc05 20:23, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maricopa Maps

I like what you've done with the Maricopa County maps and cities there. I was just wondering where you found the basic Maricopa County map and if they have them for other counties. I would like to do the same kind of image for other cities as well. ONEder Boy 00:52, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the positive response! I am always happy to hear praise for my contributions to this collective base of intelligence we call Wikipedia. To answer your question, the map I made was based on the following file found on the Maricopa Association of Governments website:
I managed to find something similar for Pinal County, but am having a hard time finding other such data for the other counties in Arizona. I am not sure how it works for other states, but I myself am going to start looking on the U.S. Census Website for similar cartographic data.

[edit] Image:Chandleraz_logo.gif and Image:Chandleraz_logo.svg

Hello,

These logos are only allowed under fair use, but fair use is not allowed on Commons. Regards, Yann 23:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unofficial maps project

I really like what you have done/are doing with your maps of locations in Arizona. Realizing how much of a chore it can be (the previous incarnation of the city boundary maps in Maricopa County were my creations) I decided to take a little initiative in helping you out.

I have uploaded map files and redone the infoboxes for pretty much all of the cities and places listed for Yavapai County, trying to keep the maps pretty much to the same standards in terms of colors and linestyles that you set with previous maps. I have yet to categorize them all on the Commons, however, I plan to do that shortly.

I do not know how 'active' you are with this project, but I'm happy to continue helping with the remaining counties. Let me know if you're working on anything currently so I don't duplicate your work unecessarily.

Thanks again for the great contributions!! Arkyan 17:51, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Just as a little update. I got a bit overzealous and did up a bunch of maps for La Paz without checking and realizing you'd already uploaded them! I also have the maps for Mohave County finished (they are on my computer at home and can't upload them until later), as well as much of the work done on Navajo and Apache counties. I didn't see anything uploaded for those. I did notice that in your version for La Paz (as well as it looks like most aside from Maricopa) you're drawing in the outlines for the CDP's as well. For consistency's sake I will do the same with the newer maps, though I'll leave Yavapai and Coconino as-is until I can get around to fixing them later so they all are consistent.
I am wondering if you planned to extend this project in to other states as well? Arizona is definitely a good start due to the small number of counties, although if you were to branch out into other states this could turn in to a long project :) Anyway, excellent work on the maps, keep it up! Arkyan • (talk) 21:34, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you! I still have to credit you with the original idea as well as the formatting for the maps, I just ran with the idea :) There is still a little bit of cleaning up to do, particularly a few small unincorporated (non CDP) towns that could at least use "red dot" maps, but I held off on them because the articles themselves were in rotten shape - see Greer, Arizona for an example. As far as continuing on with other states or at least other cities, I plan to cool down a little bit before picking another direction. I am thinking I might consider moving in to neighboring western states like Nevada or New Mexico, as I'm assuming they should be fairly similar in scope, large counties with lots of open space. As you had mentioned with some potential future examples, such as New York City, individual county maps would be a little inappropriate, not to mention an exhausting project. I did like your idea of possibly branching out to hit some of the other major metropolitan areas - some old raster versions exist for major California cities, some in Florida and perhaps elsewhere, but upgrading to SVG maps is a definite good idea. Perhaps it would be possible to check around for other users who have worked on those and similar maps and see if a more broadened method of attack is called for, perhaps even an official project? Either way, I plan to "rest" for a short period before taking on any more maps. Thanks again for the help and input and most of all the inspiration! Arkyan • (talk) 06:56, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
    • After a bit of a break and some consideration on the topic, I've come to the conclusion that the most logical extension of the "project" is to target major metropolitan areas first, and leave it up to interested parties if they wish to do the same for whatever particular county. As something of an experiment I've whipped up maps for several counties in the Detroit metro area, as I used to live there, and it provides a special challenge - Michigan has multiple layers of government that adds the whole "civil township" and incorporated village setup, so you get overlapping areas. I've uploaded maps for Wayne county and modified the corresponding articles. I also put up a notice on Wikiproject Michigan to see if others approve of the maps. If the response is positive, I will continue with other counties in that area, and if I still have the stamina slowly work my way out to other cities, but without additional help I imagine it'll be a slow, eventual process. Just wanted to update you on what I was doing with this. Arkyan • (talk) 22:27, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Hello again. I have a fairly important update as far as the mapping project goes. First of all, I checked with the WikiProject Cities folks to see about their opinion on the project and got in touch with a couple of other editors who have been working on maps, and trying to convince them that SVG is the way to go :) More importantly though, I got a little tired of drawing these maps individually and brushed off some old scripting skills. I now have a script that will draw the boundary files for counties, municipalities and CDP areas automatically based on Census data. It still requires user intervention, as the maps are drawn state by state (rather huge maps) and I have to manually seperate out the county I want to work on, but it's a huge timesaver. I'm also working on another script to automatically generate highlighted maps but that's not done yet. Arkyan • (talk) 20:22, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] New maps

By all means, feel free to upload new maps of the ones that I originally did. Nice job on picking up on the updated maps from MAG, too.

My project is going great, I have a fully functioning script that churns out maps based directly on the Census boundary files. Not as up to date as what MAG hands out, but since the vast majority of the city articles out there don't get the kind of love an attention the others get, the decennial Census information is more than adequate. Particularly when it's all automated :) Arkyan • (talk) 05:24, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Chandleraz seal.gif)

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[edit] L.A. County

I reviewed your L.A. County maps and they look correct to me. Thanks for the work. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 08:16, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Glendale CA

I see you arranged the pics on the Glendale, California article. No big deal or anything really, but where they overlapping on your computer screen?

Yes, some of the images were overlapping The pano-type camera-phone-looking image was overlapping with some of the images on the side, and the image above the trivia template was slightly overlapping with the template itself. Also, it seemed kind of weird that all of the images were on the right side of the article, pushing some relevant images out of the sections they were intended to be included in.

[edit] Another map update

Hey there! My script is now running through California and I've hit Los Angeles County. I see that you have made at least some of the maps for the county, I've not dug around to see if you got them all just yet. Anyway, I wanted to check in with you first to see if you were working on maps for any other California counties so as to avoid duplication. In general I'm proceeding alphabetically - so if you planned on making maps in, say, Texas I'd not run in to those for some time :)

As an aside, if you do get the hankering to tackle another county and would like I can generate you a generic SVG for the municipalities so long as you don't mind using the data from the 2000 census. Obviously if you have more up to date sources those'd be more accurate, but otherwise I'd be willing to give you the outline maps to build upon. Let me know if you'd ever have any use for such.

Good work with LA and all though. Looking good! ɑʀкʏɑɴ 21:39, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How to Make County Maps

I've really enjoyed what you've been doing with highlighting the location of incorporated and unincorporated communities in counties, i.e., Los Angeles and Maricopa Counties. I wish to do the same for the 66 counties of South Dakota (several counties, yes, but small and very few communities for the most part haha). I live in Minnehaha County, SD (here's a link to the first map I could find with the towns in it: [1]). However, I don't know how to put it in the format that you have for the counties you've made. In other words, I would like to know how to create the SVG files highlighting the eleven incorporated communities of Minnehaha County. Please help me out with this and tell me if there's a program I need to download. Thanks.

BTW: The City of Sioux Falls is bordered with a purple line (obviously) and the southern boundary runs along the county line between Minnehaha and Lincoln Counties...even though the urban area just to the south of that purple line is still the City of Sioux Falls, so I'll need to know how to include that small segment in the map. Here's a Lincoln County Map [2].

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[edit] Map request

You made the map for Long Beach, CA.[3] I was wondering whether you would make a map for Los Cerritos, Long Beach, California. There is a non free map here that shows where the filmed homes are as used in this article. Would you consider making a map for Los Cerritos, Long Beach, California that marks the location of the fimed homes shown in that Wikipedia article? Thanks. JohnABerring27A (talk) 06:02, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Would you like a map similar to that one you linked, or similar to the LA County Long Beach map with some kind of marker showing the location of that neighborhood? Wikipedia being what it is, I don't think I can just make a direct copy of that non-free one you linked to me without being able to rationalize it somehow. Let me know how best I can help!
Ixnayonthetimmay (talk) 06:12, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pinal county maps

Hey there again,

I was looking through some of your maps of Pinal County and noticed a couple things. As far as I can tell, it looks like the areas you've identified as incorporated come from the Pinal County land use map (here) but those areas seem to be identified as "Corridor Mix" rather than "Incorporated". I checked the general plans for Coolidge and Florence and unfortunately they do not show their current municipal boundaries, and Maricopa's GP does not show the boundaries that that map shows. Is there something I missed that says the "Corridor Mix" on that map is the same as "Incorporated", because it'd be great to know these are indeed updated maps of city boundaries.

In any case, both Coolidge and Florence seem to have updated their planning areas to eliminate the overlap. Coolidge's update seems to have eliminated the overlap with Casa Grande as well. You might want to update the maps when you get a chance. Arkyan 21:59, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New Arizona maps

I stopped by to say, they look great! Though (se above) it's a moving target. Thanks for drawing them. Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 20:35, 19 April 2008 (UTC), Rimrock AZ

Thanks! I replied that on Arkyan's page I would get around to the updates when I was bored on a Saturday...since I finished them today, my prediction was right. It will be better when Pinal County finishes their comprehensive plan, so I would (hopefully) just be able to refer to one document. That would make things much easier...
Ixnayonthetimmay (talk) 20:46, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Phoenix Seal

Yes, please do. I wasn't very comfortable with that color scheme to begin with, as it, well, wasn't really a color scheme—just an approximation of an embossed seal. Thanks for the work, and thanks for asking—you didn't have to, you know :) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 12:31, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Collin County, Texas,

Hey there,

I've been very gradually updating Texas city maps near the style you and Arkyan have been using. I have been going in alphabetical order, and just came upon your maps for Collin County. Did you have any plans to continue making maps for TX? I have been using the US Census TIGER files that just came out for 2007, creating the maps in ArcGIS, and editing with Inkscape. The only difference between your maps and mine is that I haven't colorized the state maps (slows things down too much) (see for example Brownsville, Texas). Just wondering on a plan of attack here.

25or6to4 (talk) 08:33, 6 June 2008 (UTC)