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[edit] Nice map!

Nice work on this map ;) --Peter ^Talk 21:39, 24 August 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Maps

Unfortunately we can't trace copyrighted base files, since that would make the resulting map a "derivative work." I agree that this is pretty ridiculous, but then again, I have a lot of objections to current U.S. intellectual property laws. Private mapmakers actually introduce errors into their maps, just to be able to catch copyright infringement! If you're having trouble finding a base to work with for a specific map, let me know—I think I'm pretty much familiar with all possible base sources for maps. --Peter ^Talk 15:19, 30 August 2008 (EDT)

Just wanted to drop by and add another thanks for your help with the Wikitravel:Regions Map Expedition! If you have any questions with inkscape, don't hesitate to ask ;) --Peter ^Talk 14:54, 6 September 2008 (EDT)

[edit] New Zealand map

You really outdid yourself on that one! --Peter ^Talk 01:04, 1 October 2008 (EDT)

Couldn't agree more—I've been removing the CIA factbook maps as soon as I get new regions maps in their place. --Peter ^Talk 01:39, 1 October 2008 (EDT)

Ooh yeah, that's a great one... keep up the good work, it's so nice having multiple talented map-makers around! – cacahuate ^talk 02:18, 28 October 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Edmonton Map

Hi, Shaund, I thought you MIGHT be interested in a small project. See the (I think) last topic in Talk:Edmonton, about maps. Tell me what you think. Also, can you create a map as PNG and then convert it to a SVG w/o a SVG like progream (linkscape?)? ¿ Keep smiling, Edmontonenthusiast 16:46, 27 October 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Thank you so much, from my talk page

(I am putting this in my talk page, as well) OH THANK YOU SHAUND...YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY YOU'VE MADE ME SERIOUSLY! OH THANK GOD! LOL...anyways I know you won't put roads in first but you need to put in the river and the city boundaries! OK? Thanks agaiN! I don't mind that it takes a few weeks, it's just a load off because I know I'd suck and I'm busy with the "written" part ;), plus other stuff I like to do (going out, Playing SimCity, hanging out with the people I love :)) this is just such a load off! Oh thank you Shaund! And I will add the districts borders to the main page and the districts, but how would you go about describing if say it is "bound by the north by one road, but then its northern side goes in a southwest direction on another road, then a east-west road again, just further south, etc."?¿ Thank you so much for the advice as well, I am working hard to get all of them USEABLE...then I will do the main article to fit the districts, then I'll be more specific to the manual of style and try and make 'em guides! Thank you for your edits as well, any edits are ALWAYS APPRECIATED. Once you answer my question about district borders, I'll set the borders up :)! Or what I could do is take a map from Open Street and just use that (because the major roads, which are borders are shown) and show you that, then you can make a good one (the OpenStreet one wouldn't really be good for this anyways ;)! Thanks so much Shaund. Just let me know when you are starting, how your progressing (if you want you can upload the incomplete image to show me ... ) and if you have any questions ;)! Thank you so much, by the way,Vancouver rocks! haha. It does, I'm serious, my third favourite city (Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver...). Heh, anywauy,s thanks! Also, are you learning any about Edmonton via these articles, if so, what in particular? Keep smiling, Edmontonenthusiast 20:40, 27 October 2008 (EDT)

[edit] The Edmonton Map information!

Hi, Shaund! It's what you've been waiting for-the information for the Edmonton district's map ahah! I know, I know you were thinking that all-inclusive trip to Miami! NOOO! Haha, anyways, here's all the information:

Edmonton, as you know, is having 8 districts:

• Central - bound by: Groat Road in the west from the river until 118th Avenue. The northern boundaries are 118th Avenue which turns into Kingsway Ave. until 111 Avenue, then the northern border takes a north-south boundary at 118th Ave and 97 St. of 97th Street until the Yellowhhead (16) Highway and that continues it's northern border until Wayne Gretzky Drive. It's eastern border is Wayne Gretzky Drive between Yellowhead and river. The southern boundary is the North Saskatchewan River between Groat Road and Wayne Gretzky Drive.

• East Central - basically east of the Wayne Gretzky Drive, south of Yellowhead, west of the Highway 216/Anthony Henday Dr. (aka eastern boundaries of the city) and north of the river. Basically that!

• South Central - western boundary is the river. Northern boundary is the river until 98 Avenue then that's its norhtern boundary until Connor's Road (Which is rightaway) then at a traffic circle it continues as 83 St. Oh boy, I just did it's eastern boundary, heh. Then continuuuing the eastern boudary along 82nd/Whyte Avenue until 75th St. 75th St. until Argyll Road. Then the southern boundary is Argyll Road which turns into 63 Avenue then joins up with 61 Avenue west of 104th Street/Calgary Trl. Contuinue on that until 113 St. 113 St becomes the border until Belgravia Road/Fox Drive which is the border until Whitemud Drive, which is the border (for a teeeny bit)until the river! Phewph! Confusing?

• North - start with the southern boundary which begins in the west as Stony Plain Road until Mayfield Road (north-south road)which then turns into 111(west-east) Avenue which is the border until Groat Road which is the border until 118th Avenue that turns into Kingwway Avenue. Kingsway is then the border until 111 Ave. which is the border until 97th St. 97th is the border until Yellowhead. Then basically anything north of the Yellowhead is the north end. It's eastern boundary is the city limits north of the Yellowhead. Same with the west. The north aswell. Just make sure you check the city borders properyl :)!

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Phew-four more!

• West - the western border is the city limits. The southern border the same. The northern boundary is Stony Plain Road until Mayfield Road which turns into 111 Avenue. That is the border until Groat Road. Groat Road is the eastern boundary until the river, which finishes off being the eastern border all the way south down to the city limits.

• Southwest - Eastern boundary is 99 St. until Whitemud Drive, which is breif in being the border because at 91 St. that becomes the border. 91 St. is the eastern boundary until Anthony Henday Drive. Anthony Henday is brefily the boundary until Calgary Trail, which becomes the boundary until the city limits. Southern borders are the city limits west of Calg. Trail. Western boundary is the North Saskatchewan River until the Whitemud Drive. Whitemud breifly becomes border. Now we're at the northern boder. At Whitemudand Fox Drive, Fox Drive becomes the border which turns into Belgravia Road. At 113 St., 113 St becomes the border until 61 Avenue. Which is the border until it meets up with 63 Avenue which is the border until 99 St.

• East - western boundary is 98th Ave until Connor's Rd. then at a traffic circle it continues as 83 St. Then continuing the eastern boudary along 82nd/Whyte Avenue until 75th St. 75th St. until Argyll Road. Then the southern boundary is Argyll Road which turns into 63 Avenue which is the border until 99 St. 99th is the border until Whitemud Drive. The southern boundary is north of Whitmud Drive, east of 99th. The eastern is the city boundaries-I believe Highway 216. Northern boundary is basically the river until Yellowhead Trl. which is the northern boundary until the eastern city limits. *Sigh*.

• Mill Woods - basically west of 91 Street untilAnthony Henday Drive (highway) which at Calgary Trail, Calgary Trail becomes the western boundary until southern limits. Southern limits is the southern city limits. Northern boundary is Whitemud Dr. east of 91 St. Eastern boundary is city limits.

Ok there, I hhope I was thorough, I was getting tired. If you have any questions ,remember just ask MIIIII. Remember to put in the city limits, I would also like you to grey-out Sherwood Park and Saint Albert (municipalities connected) like the Vancouver map ;)!!!! Also don't forget to PUT IN the river!!!!!!!! Use online maps or bought maps to help you, aswell! To help you further, I saved a map from OpenStreetMaps to give you a different perspective, in case the above was somewhat confusing!

That one shows just the district borders and their names!!!!!

The one below also shows the roads you should put in v2...I know you won't put the roads in rightaway, but soon after the original version is created, please put the roads in(I will help you with that when you decude to do tthat). The colours I chose for the words of the districts in this one you can use for the colours of the districts, if you feel as if you'd like to!!!! Here is:

Just sucks that all the roads in openstreet for Edmonton aren't on there:(!!!! Anyways, how are yeh? How long do you think this will take? One week? I am thinkin' between one and two weeks. Thanks again, I really do appreciate it, and I'm sorry not more of them were squary but they just don't fit so I had to put specific borders, but I did tone it down, like now Westmount is apart of the northside instead and Rexall Place is in central now. Now I've done my dutties, remember tot tell me how you're progressing and when you've started. Thanks, mate! Keep smiling, Edmontonenthusiast 19:17, 28 October 2008 (EDT) Also, do you think that I should really give those information to describe the boundaries in the actual pages? A little long...doncha think? I will reserve doing so until you provide an answer as to what you think, Keep smiling, Edmontonenthusiast 19:25, 28 October 2008 (EDT)

Have you started it yet? Keep smiling, Edmontonenthusiast 14:07, 1 November 2008 (EDT)

This might help you with the city' borders...[1]...keep smiling, Edmontonenthusiast 16:26, 1 November 2008 (EDT)

[edit] history calgary

hey i was wondering when you are gonna do the history for calgary, i just beliebe you said you would. keep smiling, ee

[edit] idea??

what about a thing in your userpg where you give a link to all the pmaps you've done? keep smiling, Edmontonenthusiast 00:03, 31 October 2008 (EDT)

[edit] nice work!

I saw your work on the Edmonton districts map! Fantastic job-----and thank you! I really appreciate it. You did such a good job. I wouldn't ask for it now, but sometime in a bit, you could put some major roads;). So good though, you dif a fine job! Thank you so much! Keep smiling, Edmontonenthusiast 23:26, 2 November 2008 (EST)

[edit] I want to thank-you!

Hey, Shaund! I want to thank you for the district map of Edmonton you did. Very good! I wanted to say that with you doing that you have helped me stay enthused about all this districting! You're a real help! Thanks! Keep smiling, Edmontonenthusiast 11:05, 3 November 2008 (EST).

Also, thanks for the work in Edmonton. Keep smiling ,ee ^talk 23:59, 3 November 2008 (EST).

[edit] Whats your-The Vancouver Edition!

Hey Shaund! I was wondering what's yourr favourite par/and/or district of Vancouver and why! I was wondering iff I could get a Metropolitan Vancouverites opinion. Also, what's the best view of the skyline? Thought I'd ask you! Keep smiling, ee ^talk 22:44, 4 November 2008 (EST).

I added a comment in my user talk. If you want, please check (and reply;)) Keep smilign, ee ^talk 11:14, 7 November 2008 (EST).

Also chekc the Talk:Edmonton and go to the part about Edmonton skyline phots-thought you might like to voice your opinion! Keep smiling, ee ^talk 12:59, 7 November 2008 (EST).

--left another comment. keep smiling, ee ^talk 00:13, 11 November 2008 (EST).

[edit] Heya, just asking

Remember - you don't need to say yes, and if you do you don't have to do it right away, just soon. Anyways, since you've done so well on Alberta/BC maps, chekc the bottom of Talk:Edmonton/Central and post a comment! THANKS MUCH! Keep smiling, ee ^talk 20:56, 6 November 2008 (EST).

[edit] CotM

Hey, Shaund, I thought you might be interested to check out the Wikitravel:Collaborations of the month and go down to North America and see Edmonton and Calgary's thing. If ya can, please comment. Keep smiling, ee ^talk 22:17, 8 November 2008 (EST).

[edit] vancouver photo

Thought you'd like some Vancouver photos to look at: [2], [3], [4]

Aaand...since you've taken an interest in Edmonton...[5]...Pretty dense, eh? A lot of peopl don't know that about E-town! Keep smiling, ee ^talk 23:06, 10 November 2008 (EST).

[edit]  !Docent¡

You seem to know a lot about Vancouver, have you considered becoming a Docent? I think you'd be a fantastic docent, really! Keep smiling, ee ^talk 00:21, 11 November 2008 (EST).

Thanks for the words of encouragement. I'll think about it. Shaund 02:32, 11 November 2008 (EST)

[edit] edmonton map

3 points about the edmonton map:

• 1 - Beautiful work - really it is fantastic! You should finish labelling the streets.

Noted, although some streets won't get labelled because of space constraints. - Shaund

• 2 - This is the actual sign for Highway Two - it's changed : [6] but still good. Also, you should put NW against all the roads except Ellerslie which would be SW. Remember quadrants!

OK, I'll look up the quadrants. Although why would they all be NW or SW, shouldn't there be NE and SE too??

Re the QE2 highway, that image has copyright issues. If there's one floating around that is public domain or compliant with WT licensing standards, I'll use it. - Shaund

• 3 - how do you get those colour things with matching the map for the district. Eg Central is purple so under its descr there is a purple thing. An example is Copenhagen.

It's the region list template. I was going to do it the next time I revised the map, but you can jump in and set it up now if you want. Shaund 23:49, 11 November 2008 (EST)

Thanks for the work, I really do appreciate it!

Keep smiling,

ee ^talk 20:45, 11 November 2008 (EST).

Some more edits I noticed are: 76 Street is actually 75 St. You should label Sherwood Park Freeway (the part of Whyte Ave that is yellow road). Put in Groat Road (the part of St Albert Trail south of Yellowhead, labell that). Also label 82nd St. and extend it to around 137 Ave. Also 170 St between Whitemud and St Alb Trail should be yellow, as it is a small freeway. You might want to label it with the "2" also as that section is apart of Highway Two ... although it kind of is a bit iffy in exact markers but basically it's that so you should label it that. Also the "2" Highway south of Whitemud (Calgary Trail) should have the QEII logo I showed you all others are the regular 2. Other than that, just the other points I've said and good job!

Thank you! Keep smiling, ee ^talk 13:54, 13 November 2008 (EST).

Hey EE, thanks. Other than QEII logo, I'll try to work those in. Just so you know - the QEII logo isn't compatable with our licensing (i.e., it's not Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike) so I can't include on the map (it would be a possible copyright violation). Cheers. Shaund 00:00, 14 November 2008 (EST)

Aiiight! Keep smiling, ee ^talk 00:41, 14 November 2008 (EST).

[edit] VCR

Hi there, I saw you said that Vancouver article isn't good to look up. You said it's messy and stuff, I don't get it, it seems like a pretty darn good article(S) to me. Very well done. I definitely look up to it (for Edmonton, Calgary). Keep smiling, ee ^talk 20:50, 12 November 2008 (EST).

Vancouver is definitely a good article and it's cool that you look up to it for Edmonton and Calgary. I believe I was referring to something specific -- the See and Do sections. The main article isn't supposed to have all those listings since Vancouver is a huge city, and sometime in the near future I'll be replacing them with a summary like Chicago has.

And thanks for the links to the pictures of Vancouver and Edmonton. There's some very cool shots of the two cities (and pretty much everywhere I guess) on Flickr. Although I strongly suspect some of them have seen time in Photoshop (like mine do occasionally :) ) Shaund 01:04, 13 November 2008 (EST)

Oh, alright I get it. Do you like the colour thing I did? Glad you like the pictures! They do look nice! Keep smiling, ee ^talk 10:32, 13 November 2008 (EST).

Yes, thanks for adding the region template! Shaund 00:01, 14 November 2008 (EST)

Hey no problem! Keep smiling, ee ^talk 00:41, 14 November 2008 (EST).

[edit] SHAUND!

Heya mate! I'm guessing you are Shaun D., right, I'm just guessing! Anyways, I want to give you a barnstar! Why? Well you've done a lot of work to Vancouver, and it is a good job, you've done a fabulous district overview map for Edmonton, you've done small stuff for Edmonton, your very friendly and helpful to me! So YOU DESERVE IT:)! Keep smiling, ee ^talk 17:14, 14 November 2008 (EST).

[edit] photo

photo link to your vacation travels thing doesn't come up fro myour UserPg. Keep smiling ,ee ^talk 22:18, 14 November 2008 (EST).

[edit] admin

I've nominated you for admin-you deserve it! Check this page for your nom! Let us know if you'd accept! Keep smiling, ee ^talk 23:15, 14 November 2008 (EST).

[edit] Edmonton Wikitravel Press

Hey Shaund, I am discussing with Jpatokal over doing a book for Edmonton on Wikitravel Press, I thought you might be interested in helping me with it. Would you be? Lemme know. Keep smiling, ee ^talk 12:52, 15 November 2008 (EST).

Also you'd need to convert the district map to fit the book, please? It may be a bit difficult, BUT Peter can probably help you. KEep smiling, ee ^talk 14:22, 15 November 2008 (EST).

I saw Peter's comments, that shouldn't be a problem. Shaund 14:38, 15 November 2008 (EST)

Awesome, Shaund, you're great! Thank you so much for everything! Keep smiling, ee ^talk 14:40, 15 November 2008 (EST).

[edit] edm, ab dotm

I recently nominated Edmonton for Destination of the Month. I KNOW...another Edmonton thing...I think it does have good chances. I'd love your thoughts. Keep smiling, ee ^talk 23:51, 16 November 2008 (EST).

Also, you'd be interested in this[7], macsya fall in love with Vancouver! Keep smiling, edmontonenthusiast [ee] ^.T.A.L.K. 19:06, 17 November 2008 (EST).

Oh and there some small things for the Edmonton map to change (some are in my talk pages). Here i modifyed this and the green areas you need to add more parks, check google to make sure they are place correctly, or, if you can Open Street (but don't count on it:)). Keep smiling, edmontonenthusiast [ee] ^.T.A.L.K. 19:15, 19 November 2008 (EST).

Image:Murparks.PNG Silly moi, I forgot the link.

Ah, your comment makes more sense now. I was wondering what you had modified :-) Shaund 01:41, 21 November 2008 (EST)

Thanks for your kind words on Edmonton DotM. Keep smiling, edmontonenthusiast [ee] ^.T.A.L.K. 09:58, 20 November 2008 (EST).

LOL. --ee.

I was wondering if you knew where Jim was? He hasn't been around since last month! Keep Smiling, edmontonenthusiast [ee] ^.T.A.L.K. 17:23, 22 November 2008 (EST).

[edit] Thanks for Istanbul

Thank you for moving the 'see' listings of Istanbul into appropriate district articles.--Vidimian 07:18, 21 November 2008 (EST)