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For your contributions to Ontario and Canada related topics, I award you this fresh maple leaf. --Qyd (talk) 22:04, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for all the category additions and modifications. CJLippert (talk) 17:49, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
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For your diligent contributions to the Moncton article and for reverting vandalism as well, your help is very much appreciated! :D Stu pendousmat (tallk) 20:53, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you for all the hard work you've done on the athletic maps! Josh (talk) 16:05, 14 May 2008 (UTC) 12:05, 14 May 2008 (UTC)


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[edit] Notes to self

People to be added to the list of people from Thunder Bay: Steve Collins (ski jumper), Donald Carrick, Danny Gruen, Al Hackner, Jeff Heath, Edie Inksetter, and Ralph Stewart. Category page last checked on 24 May.

[edit] Map request

Thanks for you help with all the maps for hockey leagues. Here's a new request you probably didn't expect. I'm looking for a map about Asia League Ice Hockey. It's a league including teams from Japan, South Korea, China and formerly Russia. Let me know what you can do, and if its possible to include the one defunct team in Russia and the three cities in China (Changchun, Harbin, Qiqihar) without teams. Thanks. Flibirigit (talk) 07:06, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Map question

Hi Vidioman, with regard to your various maps (and thanx much for the maps!) - do you think there would be some utility to splitting the various Ontario regional maps into northern and southern Ontario? The dividing line would be roughly the Sudbury-North Bay axis, just like road maps. The rationale would be to improve the spatial resolution of mapping in both areas, given the vast difference in scale, and allow the possibility of clickable links on the map images, see here for a crude example.

This might be a touchy subject for you, perched so far away from Queen's Park, FTR I think Ontario right to the Nipigon River should actually be Manitoba, where you would then be the second-largest city. Cheers! Franamax (talk) 01:07, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I usually put the boundary between North and South along the French River, through North Bay separating the main community from Farris, across Trout Lake and then down the Mattawa River to Quebec; though practically, Northern Ontario would be Parry Sound/Nipissing -> north, and Southern Ontario would be Parry Sound/Nipissing -> south. (That is, Parry Sound and Nipissing would be included on both maps, due to the unusual shape of Nipissing.)
The spacial resolution of those maps is very poor, the original is small so when it's made larger, it will look terrible. An example here shows that, especially in Southern Ontario, boundaries are too ill-defined. (This is based on the best map I could find, as well, at least at this projection.) It might as well include the City of Sudbury as well, if it was a square crop.
It depends on what you want them for. Some maps just use dots to link things with a tooltip over the dot. Splitting them would probably be easy but if I know why I'm doing it I can tailor it to that specific use.
BTW, separation based solely on economic purposes never comes through. I'd like to see us separate, but I know it will never happen. vıdıoman 02:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
OK, now that I look at your example there, it's terrible, Lake Simcoe is not shown, which confuses the picture, the Georgina Township boundary of York Region doesn't look right at all (just looking at where I used to live), and when I scroll a bit, the whole graphic display falls apart - which is my own browser problem.
I'd agree with you as far as as Mattawa R. -> L. Nippissing -> French R. being the "natural" boundary of north vs. south as the waistline of Ontario. Parry Sound is going a little too far for including as north, that still counts as "cottage country". Beyond the French River, things pretty definitively switch over to northern concerns, forestry, mining, first nations, distance to health care, etc.
Given the example you present, I'm not sure the current map image is actually suitable. The basic idea would be to double the magnification for each of the north (large area) and south (dense area) sections, to give the casual reader a better idea of what they're looking at. The expanded areas would then give the possibility of adding X-links to whatever, my example above for Vancouver neighbourhoods is just that, an example. You could extend that to anything, like for any given hockey league article you could hover over a link to the hockey league next door. In my particular example, there's not enough room to show the actual neighbourhood names, but I could fit the "X" in.
And yes, it will probably never happen, but I see it as more social than economic, Ontario as it is is absurd, a heavily populated and industrialized heartland, surrounded by intensively farmed land - then a whole bunch of forest and swamp stuck on at the north end. Doesn't make sense. I say Manitoba should go over to the Nipigon, then north from the lake to the Albany, thence to James Bay. Manitoba would be a way better province to deal with that area, as opposed to Ontario worrying about preserving auto plants and widening the 401. Franamax (talk) 04:29, 5 June 2008 (UTC)