User talk:Planemad/Archive 6

national highways map

just saw your indian national highway map. fantastic! this is just to let you know people appreciate your effort. -- mowglee 05:52, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi and Thanks

Hi Arun, Thank you for the map of the Mumbai Rail network. I am working on developing Android apps and used your image quite a bit to see how my data points map.

Take care and keep up the awesome work.

BZ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.195.175.248 (talk) 03:32, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

literacy map

Hi, i see you are not very active. i noticed that you have made this excellent map for 2001 literacy rate. thought i would let you know that it would be great to have it updated. regards. --CarTick (talk) 02:28, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Map for Tiruchirappalli

Hi! How are you? Is it possible for you to create a locator map for Tiruchirappalli like this Chennai locator map which you created?-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 12:12, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

District locator maps of Maharashtra

Hey Arun, I want to create district-level locator maps, particularly to locate tehsil places and villages, of Maharashtra from the blank maharashtra locator map. Can you give a brief instruction manual of help on how to do it (for beginners)? I may help to create other maps to if I can learn how to do it properly! Thanks! Shivashree (talk) 09:28, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Invite to WikiConference India 2011

Hi Planemad, The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011. You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form. But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach. As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions. We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011

WCI 2011

Call for participation is now open, please submit your entries here. (last date for submission is 30 August 2011) --04:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

File:India Kerala locator map.svg

Please change the map of india which is posted in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala Are you an indian?? Don't craete this kind of picture. Refer political map of India. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.100.194.229 (talk) 14:34, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Check the Indian map

Where is the other part of Kashmir? If you dont know, dont post this kind of MAP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:India_Kerala_locator_map.svg#filehistory — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.100.194.229 (talk) 14:41, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Please refer to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:India_Kerala_locator_map.svg#Notes -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 05:32, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop#Indian_states_and_territories_SVG_map_refactoring_and_clickability

Hi, Arun. Hope you are doing fine off WP, but are able to check in here soon.

• Could you take a look at this? It is Nichalp's old states map. There's a note on the file page saying the code is corrupted. Can it be fixed? Or do you have a (most likely) better replacement? It is making editing programs crash upon loading apparently.
• BTW, I saw your new stuff on commons and was impressed. Top work even by your previously high standards.
• I added the rail/pop density map to India, but it is png. Are you not able to release the svg due to fears that it'll be stolen without attribution? I think I read about that happening before on your blog ... sad. Saravask 02:42, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Great to hear you are almost done with NID! Also can't wait for your new maps.

• After you release your series, I'm going to try to recreate from it {{Australia states imagemap}} for the India page. Wereldburger758 (talk · contribs) just pointed out a tool to pull out the border coords for svgs, which are then used to draw the clickable polygon domains. A clickable map is a *much* cooler way to navigate around India on WP: you see the imagemap on the "India" page, then you can click on any state/UT or even capitals and other main cities. Also mountains, seas, neighbours ... It is just less tedious for users. Also, there may be a way to cut a series down to just one map: to make the district coords stored on WP into opaque polygons whose shading is toggled by the pagename, so that only one map with static background details--oceans, neighbouring counties--would be needed. The state or district blobs would then be dynamically bordered and rendered via MediaWiki. If this is possible, I'm wondering if you can help by adapting (if needed) the series to at least accept superimposed labels like those on the Aus imagemap--that is, labels are easy to see on the background features, etc.
• Also, to me Nichalp's map has always seemed somewhat garish and non-professional looking compared to the Aus one above. Not saying the "CIA Factbook" look is required, but maybe more subdued/subtle is better. And the orthographic projection is nice, which I noticed featured in your maps for Dinesh's KN history FAs.
• Of course for Nichalp's one svg map, it would have been easy (for even me) to redo the element colours in Inkscape/Illustrator (were the source valid), but a png series is impossible for non-experts without access to source. And it may remain the best IN series on WP for years, until they start implementing here dynamic, database-driven map interfaces (or make use of that Google Maps API) in some cool new way. Static maps would be replaced. Zooming, street views, even VR, may come to WP pages at last.
• A while back I learned that the Indian infobox was deleted at TFD by some lightly talented and unaesthetic busybody twerp with a suitably dirty, cluttered, and fugly userpage (which says everything I need to know about his (all too common nowadays) mental state and attendant (lack of) taste, in infoboxes or whatnot) sometime during the several years when I was hardly on WP. Yet it is still here, it seems (from what I just read) because they need to replicate the inset and other features. So your maps will likely be appearing in {{Infobox Settlement}}, but not yet, LOL. Alas. It is IMO so revoltingly ugly, user-unfriendly, and rebarbatively convoluted even compared to so-so IIJ. I'd be *much* happier if your maps were used in the IMO clean and peerless {{Infobox Australian place}}, and the IN city pages were migrated to it or a fork of it, with appropriate changes. Yet it likely wouldn't happen even if I wasted my time proposing it. Just another example of the modern trend: exaltation of the vile, mediocre, and ugly, and denigration of what is truly excellent--architecturally, culturally, intellectually. But whatever. RL calls.
• I'm also curious about your impressions about Bangalore public transit and their organisation. I was there for quite a while staying with relatives. Also spent a few months in Hyderabad and Vizag. I know you had big gripes with the lack of information regarding the Chennai system. Do you think this is the general condition in India? Where officials despise German- or Singaporean-style planning, documentation, and mapping? Or is it just Chennai? Are there any cities/regions in India (I'm thinking Modi's Gujarat maybe) that are doing things well in terms of maps/planning/documentation?
• Again, as for your series, since you are doing all the mapwork, and I haven't even seen them, these design things are of course 100% your prerogative. Won't be complaining. Just sharing my novice opinions, and trust 100% your judgement.

Good luck with your remaining work; hope that vacation will be nice reward. Saravask 14:35, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

• Well now people can go to Google Earth, toggle "Wikipedia" on, then see those icons geodistributed, with first paras viewable on click. Not to mention, as you know, its toggled road/features/etc. overlays. But this all has to be done by the user outside of WP. I (and I think you) are thinking that WP users should be able to do something similar to that on the Tamil Nadu page: see an infobox map that has a default state map. They can click a district and, say, be taken to its page. Or they can toggle view of clickable rails/roads/rivers. Or they can enlarge view of the district to fill the whole map, then toggle cities/etc. Or pop density shadings, rainfall, metro routes, etc. All the relevant data would of course be pulled from somewhere on-wiki.
• A Google/WP "Summer of Code" project by Jeroen_De_Dauw dealt with maps driven by the Semantic MediaWiki extension. Looks like that could do what you envision: that Semantic extension would (guessingly) allow storage of district/rail/highway path data on-wiki, which users would then toggle the display of. Some other wikis use it. Not sure if/when WP is going to start supporting it. Also not sure if it can store svg-type elements rather than merely simple coords. Sadly none of the more recent projects deal with map stuff. Maybe GaneshK can help point out other ways to do what you're asking for. Saravask 02:03, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

[DI] GeoJSON? Interesting.

• According to this comment, Nichalp's map code is invalid due to the font it uses. I think you mentioned that any new svgs you might release would also have this issue. Could it be the font as well?
• You probably know then that Inkscape is very good (compared with Illustrator) with programmatic image creation--use Python scripts to read-in geodata and automatically issue the editing commands via the API. Provided you have your GIS and other data sets sorted and ready to go, batch-creating layers should be straightforward (if not exactly trivial). I have no experience with image processing stuff yet. Maybe you do?
• Once you got the layers, like you said, you can layer them as if they were infobox pogs. Just have no idea about your controls--maybe it can't be done in MediaWiki templates per se, but needs a special-purpose widget? I'm at least as ignorant as you about it. If I think of something (probably not), I'll ping you first.

Again, hope you make it to your vacation--alive! Saravask 22:57, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, tutorial? I have worked in Python, but I've never used the Inkscape API, let alone process GIS formats (whether GeoJSON or any others). I'm just passing on second-hand info I heard in CS classes/labs and stuff I read online a while ago--when I was considering the usefulness of CS5 Master--about the relative ease of automating the creation of non-GIS vector images, which was a big concern of mine (and still is) for a possible future coding project. So I haven't read any tutorials yet. Sorry. But maybe there are Wikimedians with actual experience at the computing helpdesk who can verify that what I (as a non-expert) claimed above will actually work for GIS files. Saravask 02:29, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikimedia Stories Project

Hello,

My name is Victor Grigas, and I'm a storyteller at the Wikimedia foundation. We're telling stories of Wikipedia users, editors, donors, programmers and staff to paint a picture of who uses Wikipedia - for the 2011 fundraiser.

I am in the process of planning a trip to India to gather stories from Indian Wikipedians in face-to-face interviews (possibly on video).

My primary goal is to conduct 15-20 interviews, and hopefully enough of my interviews will make compelling stories that will effectively solicit donations from the public. These stories may also be used for other communication purposes by the foundation.

I found your userpage on a list of prolific Wikipedians and thought I’d reach out to you. Prolific editing is always a good story to tell!

If you are interested in participating, please contact me via my email:

[email protected]

Thank you for your time!

Victor

About me: I have been a Wikipedia editor since 2005, and have a background in film, video and audio. My userpage can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

Noteworthy Wikimedian Recognition 2011

		The Indian Barnstar of National Merit
		This user has been nominated by the community of Indian editors for recognition as a Noteworthy Wikimedian at WikiConference India 2011. AshLin (talk) 14:08, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Request for the vector map

hello sir,

i m a final year student of architecture doing my reserch on thesis in the city jaipur,india. I WAS LOOKING FOR SOME VECTOR MAPS OF THE CITY [SPLZ THE OLD CITY AREA] FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACADEMICS OF THESIS..

ITS A REQUEST TO U IF U CAN SOME HOW MANAGE TO PROVIDE EM WITH ONE OR HELP ME REGARDING THE SAME

WOULD E REALLY THANKFULL TO U ...

TANUJ JAIN [email protected] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.170.126.130 (talk) 10:20, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Request for a new map

Sir you have done a wonderful job in making haryana map. your map is used in almost all the haryana articles. I was editing some articles related to Yamuna Nagar. If you could provide us with a separate map of Yamuna Nagar it would be highly appreciated

Also, could you update you Somali Piracy map to include 2011 data? The map is excellent and I loved studying it. Thank you. 78.92.170.85 (talk) 07:30, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you anonymous :) I dont plan to update the piracy map for now mainly because my workflow has changed and updating this map will require significant time. But since a lot of people have requested for it, I will try my best to do it when I get some free time -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 10:51, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Regarding your Public Transport Map for Chennai

Hi PlaneMad I stumbled upon your comments when I was searching for information on Chennai Bus Routes. You wrote around 2 years ago about how you were working on this Map. How did it go? Is it over? Cuz right now I am in a mess and Im sure your project will help me from getting lost in Chennai. Do reply. Looking forward to see your work.

Regards, Suzanne Vandana. Suzanne Vandana (talk) 09:01, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so much Arun :) I would be happy if you could also do a map of sorts on the share auto routes too. I don't find much info about them in the net. :( — Preceding unsigned comment added by Suzanne Vandana (talk • contribs) 09:31, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest

Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.

As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.

If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from Part One of the Assessment Guide. Part Two of the Guide will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.

You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.

ssriram_mt (talk) & AshLin (talk) (Drive coordinators)

Delivered per request on Wikipedia:Bot requests. The Helpful Bot 01:30, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Climate of India map

Hello Arun! This is a request for important cartographic activity. File:India_climatic_zone_map_en.svg, although is sourced to a Stanford university page, the source in that page (of Stanford university) cites a fishy website ([1]) as its source. The map actually does not tally with Koppen world map. Will it be possible for you to make a climate zone map of India based on the world Koppen map or Asia map? I talked regarding this with creator of India climate zone map Saravask (talk · contribs) who admits the need for change.--Dwaipayan (talk) 05:58, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

This is not at all urgent. You can take as much time as needed.--Dwaipayan (talk) 12:58, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

I tried, but did not find any better resolution map. Will continue the search. The academic paper where these maps appear is this one.--Dwaipayan (talk) 13:55, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

error in district name...

Hi!

  I request u to change the name of the district in the CMA( Chennai Metropolitan Area ) article map. It is named as Thiruvalluvar. It is actually Thiruvallur.

thanks & regards Arvind — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aravind tlp (talk • contribs) 07:33, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Coordinate limits

Hi, what are the coordinate limits for files like File:India Mizoram locator map.svg and File:India Tripura locator map.svg? Are these documented somewhere? utcursch | talk 06:09, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Ah, thanks. I did have a look at that page, but I was using the coordinates from "India-level (unshaded) map" for Template:Location map India Tripura, and was getting erroneous results. Looks like the limits mentioned for "India-level (shaded) maps" are the right ones for this map. Thanks! utcursch | talk 08:15, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Hyderabad, India map

Hi, we need to apply map to Hyderabad, India before we move the article to FAC, and I see you are the right person to approch for this help. Hope you will help us. :)Regards --Omer123hussain (talk) 15:35, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Cardiovascular infographic

Hi, I really like the cardiovascular infographic you made on rural vs. urban dwellers in India. Just a quick suggestion for an edit, I think you meant mutation and not mutilation in the blurb at the bottom. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meistromaster (talk • contribs) 00:01, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing that :) will update next time ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 02:20, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata-logo-proposal-2s.png

I also have a strong preference for this logo, nice work! However please consider (manually?) fixing the kerning, that d looks terribly lonely with so much space before the "a". I also agree with the previous comments on the poll that the prefix "wiki" should be included and using caps would make the logo look more consistent with all other Wikimedia projects. --DarTar (talk) 04:53, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback Dar Tar. I do not want to modify the logo now when the voting is in progress. Once its done and if it does get selected, we could have a community discussion on modifications. That sounds fair and would make sure that the majority support the changes--38.122.72.170 (talk) 12:17, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Map conventions : where are we now ?

Hello Planemad, so long time no see. I got interviewed by the Wikipedia Signpost about the map project, also, I made a short history of the project and conventions, thus citing your former input. If you are interested, you can read more there:

• Wikipedia Signpost : The Cartographers of WikiProject Maps

Wishing you the best, Yug (talk) 15:28, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi Yug, the signpost made for interesting reading. I'm more active now and plan to release a new series of maps over the next few months. I'm more involved with osm data now and tools like tilemill opens a lot of new opportunities in rendering maps. My interest however lies more with making map tiles for interactive slippy maps rather than static maps which are limiting in a lot of ways. You can look forward to seeing some interesting stuff from me in the near future :) -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 16:01, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

A message for you

Hello, Planemad. You have new messages at Talk:Coimbatore.
Message added 08:24, 22 July 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

-- Rsrikanth05 (talk) 08:24, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Bangalore Outbound Trains Frequency Chart

Hi! First of all, I'd like to thank you for the drawing "Bangalore Outbound Trains Frequency Chart". It's beautiful and inspiring and great to see on Wikipedia.

The slight problem I discovered with it is that it has both hours 24 and 00 (and the horizontal space for an hour between them). I suppose 00 should follow 23. Thanks! – Daniel Mahu (talk|contribs) · 08:19, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Daniel for noticing that. Will fix it when I make an updated version --14.96.5.184 (talk) 08:41, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Tamil Nadu Locator map

Arun, Please fix the Tamil Nadu locator map by adding Ariyalur district onto it. --Essaar (talk) 12:31, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

The issue is that there is no official shapefiles for the census 2011 districts, unless that is out, there is no authentic source for me to create those districts from-- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 12:55, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Transport in Chennai

The map you uploaded in Transport in Chennai article contains routes about future metro lines. The metro lines are not yet confirmed and the route looks like your personal imagination. Please reupload after removing the future metro lines. Otherwise, a fantastic work. Kudos!!! --Anbu121 (talk me) 14:35, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks :) I had made it to illustrate future metro planning for a friend and the lines are loosely based on proposed metro and monorail corridors, so are not a complete fantasy. I did indicate it on the map and in the file page that the routes are unofficial. I will upload a future version without them -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 17:27, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

tnag

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tnag

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DYK for List of Chennai Corporation wards

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:03, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Your population map in the India page

Hi there, You don't really know me, but I've long admired your work on both the India page and other India-related pages. I am wondering if you could help us out with improving your map File:Indian Railways Network Connectivity Map with cities and population density.png. Even though it is a railway connectivity map, it is more importantly (in the demographics page) a heat map of the population, which identifies urban conglomerations (and which are named).

1. Is is possible to increase the font size for the city names?

2. Could you add a color bar on the side with density numbers?

3. Is it possible to get rid of the railway network entirely or to de-emphasize it graphically?

4. There is a Wikipedia page List of most populous cities in India. Is there a way to make the cities in your map clickable, so that by clicking on any city a Wikipedia reader could view the information about its population and population growth found in the list page?

Look forward to your reply! Fowler&fowler«Talk» 01:27, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Thankyou :) Thats a good idea, I can create a new visualization optimized to show the population spread. I'm not sure about the interactivity, is there such an existing clickable map somewhere that I can use as a reference? I will be traveling for the next month, so I may not be able to process this till then -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 06:12, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Notification of Wikivoyage logo contest

Hello Planemad. You are receiving this message because you contributed one or more proposal(s) to the Wikidata logo contest held a few months ago. Please be aware that a new competition is being held to design a logo for the Wikimedia Foundation's newest project, Wikivoyage, a free travel guide wiki. Suggestions for designs have already begun, and will run through until about 1 November when voting will begin. The contest is described in more detail here. Feel free to enter any designs into the contest that abide by the guidelines listed at the top of the page. All the best, JamesA ^>talk 08:15, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

India Catholic dioceses map

Hello Arun, I would like to have a map of the Latin rite provinces and dioceses of the Catholic Church in India. I'm looking for something along the lines of the US map below. There are 23 Latin rite provinces in India, which are further divided into dioceses. Each diocese is made up of a few civil districts.

• 
  This could be the base map
• 
  Something like this

The list of districts that make up each diocese is in the article Territories of Roman Catholic dioceses in India, and also available on the following sites/pages:

• Official website of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India
• UCAN India Diocesan Directory

On the UCAN site, most of the dioceses have a map of India showing the outline of the diocese, which could be helpful.

The map could be used on several pages, like:

• Territories of Roman Catholic dioceses in India
• Catholic Church in India
• List of Roman Catholic dioceses in India
• List of cathedrals in India
• List of Catholic bishops of India

Thanks, The Discoverer (talk) 12:14, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi The Discoverer! I am currently focusing my time on a new GIS basemap for India that I can reuse for creating such maps easily. I won't be able to work on your request till that is done. Learning inkscape to do this is yourself is not that hard, and its a valuable skill. Let me know if you need any help :) -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 15:27, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Arun, thanks for your reply. I don't mind trying to learn Inkscape and doing it myself, although I too cannot take it up immediately, because I am busy with some other stuff for around a month or so. Do you think it is better if we wait till the new basemap you are working on is ready? Approximately when will the new basemap be available? I also have another handicap: I don't know where each district is on the map of India. Thanks a ton! The Discoverer (talk) 04:41, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

I made it!

Hi Guruji :), I made the map myself using Inkscape. What do you think?

Latin rite provinces and dioceses of the Catholic church in India. The dioceses making up a province have different shades of the same colour

The Discoverer (talk) 22:23, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Awesome! hope it was easier than you thought. The colors are a little cluttered for my taste though. My suggestion is to make an entire province a single color, and indicate the dioceses with a clear boundary within the province. If the provinces belong to a higher level of grouping like North India, West etc. they could have a similar shade. The district boundaries can be more muted. maybe a shade of gray rather than black. You would need to make compound baths by making a boolean union of districts to create a single polygon for a province/diocese to do this [2] . Do try it if you have time -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 08:24, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes.. it was easier than I thought. I agree that I didn't really 'paint a pretty picture' but I took the easiest way by using just one tool: the dropper. The way you described it would have looked awesome, but atleast for now that's out of my league. Maybe sometime in the future. The Discoverer (talk) 13:25, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Query

Hi, I was going to ask you if you would be interested in taking up this request; but I see that you are busy with your own project. My request's been pending for quite some time now, and I have decided to create the maps myself. As such, I would appreciate it if you would advise me on the following:

1. Which tools should I use to create the desired maps?
2. There are no maps available in Commons of the talukas of Karwar, Joida, and Haliyal in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka. Do you happen to know any external sites where these maps might be available?

Thank you! Joyson Prabhu ^{Holla at me!} 21:19, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia user template on OpenStreetMap

Hello -- please consider adding https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_user to your OSM user page. See the section https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia#Identifying_users for some information on reciprocal representation. As of this writing, there are only 3 people in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians . --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 05:33, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia user template on OpenStreetMap

Hello -- please consider adding https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_user to your OSM user page. See the section https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia#Identifying_users for some information on reciprocal representation. As of this writing, there are only 3 people in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians . --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 05:33, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Coimbatore area locater

Can you please make a Coimbatore area locater map like similar to [3]. It will be of great use. Thanks in advance.Balaji ^{(Let's talk)} 19:44, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

FP nomination on wikipedia

Hello Sir, I just wanted to inform you that I have nominated your picture of Ripon Building for Featured Picture. I felt it is a great Picture and has high EV. Thank You. BNK (talk) 02:26, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Azhagu Muthu Kone for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Azhagu Muthu Kone is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Azhagu Muthu Kone until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Sitush (talk) 20:04, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

SVG file of India Flood Zone map

Hi Planemad,

first of all I would like to thank you for those great maps! Like them a lot! however I get into a problem when trying to use your SVG file as a template. Can't open a single one SVG file you created under the Atlas of India category (like this one http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India_flood_zone_map.svg ). Could you advice what software you used to edit those files? I really want to make a map of The 16 Mahajanapadas of my own and your template is my best choice. Thank you very much in advance!

Cyra — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyrali (talk • contribs) 02:15, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for your reply. Great to hear the good news! Have a nice day! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyrali (talk • contribs) 11:17, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Nice maps for India! Cyrali (talk) 11:19, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Deletion review

Hi, I've just replied at Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_deletion/Azhagu_Muthu_Kone#For_deletion_review before realising that you seem not to have followed the instructions for starting a deletion review, which are given here. You'll need to do that if you want to initiate the formal review process, and then I'll need to comment there. - Sitush (talk) 11:20, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikimaps

I'm working on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps. Would you like to participate? --Susannaanas (talk) 09:21, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

D3js

Arun, are you around. We will need to collaborate on d3: I found nice stuffs! Yug (talk) 16:57, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

yes I am, my email is at the top :) -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 06:33, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Arun, saw some your pictures. Do you have any aerial (view) images of Trichy. —Vensatry _{(Ping me)} 12:04, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I do have a couple, one of Srirangam and one of Trichy city. I'll upload it soon.

A barnstar for you!

	The Photographer's Barnstar
	For producing some fine images of various regions of the country. You're a great asset to WP:IND. —Vensatry (Ping me) 06:29, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

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Map for Vellore

Hey..Hope you doing great. Saw yor work. Can you create a locator map for Vellore like you have done for chennai (Chennai locator map). Your work was cool. So can you help?? Thanks !! Sayowais (talk) Owais 17:05, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Need some help with my Uncle's Wikipedia page.

Hey Arun,

I'm creating a page for my uncle, who used to be a really popular singer and actor in Mumbai in the 1970s. Here it is - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Susheel_c/Madhukar_C._Dhas

I have asked for feedback, and it looks like people think that it needs more substantiation regarding the fact that he himself is an important musician. Since most of the newspaper articles from the 70s are not digitised, I'm asking him to share some of the clippings that he has on his website http://bigdooker.com/press.html from the 70s, but I don't know what the implications are for copyright, etc, and whether clippings will even be accepted as legit.

Would appreciate your guidance. Cheers!

Susheel @susheel_c — Preceding unsigned comment added by Susheel c (talk • contribs) 08:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, a ton. I'll try uploading some of those articles and see what happens. The Metro Plus article you pointed out was shot down as it is suppposedly an interview and not a 3rd party source. :/

Yeah those ads are something else. ;)

Susheel c (talk) 18:44, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Wondering if you could review the page sometime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Madhukar_C._Dhas

) Cheers!

Susheel c (talk) 07:41, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks a ton man! We just heard that the person who acted as Judas in JCS, Nandu Bhende died a few days ago. My uncle is quite upset. I intend to write up about as many of these people as possible, including Atomic Forest and Nandu Bhende. Thanks once again. What's that about the last track though?

Susheel c (talk) 13:46, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Jammu & Kashmir is a part of India.

This is a wrong map of India. Please review and make changes accordingly. Thanks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:India_Goa_locator_map.svg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prashant.redkar (talk • contribs) 14:35, 10 April 2014 (UTC)