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re USA map

First of all, great catch on the border there, I'll fix that asap. As for the other, I'll see what I can do but no promises, as I didn't make the line map. What is the purpose of doing it, since they will be pretty small on that map? --Golbez (talk) 15:56, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

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re map updates

Wow, so great to see someone noticing my workd. :) And in fact, you're the first person I can recall who cared about the ''map'' images and not just the ''change'' images. I am updating everything, I'm kind of uploading as I go, the maps will be updated as well. Any issues that pop up should be resolved soon. This third version of the maps is being done in QGIS, so it's all using shapefiles and vectors, much better than my old traced work. Civilian GIS tools have advanced enough since I started this project nearly 20 years ago that it's much easier to use now.

As for the other maps, I'm still figuring out how to handle them. I am definitely going to redo the NW and Caribbean maps; not sure about Pacific yet, as that's already pretty well done and doesn't benefit nearly as much from the new setup, but I probably will since I'm also working on maritime border updates now. --Golbez (talk) 20:34, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

:You can do what you want, but I would like to have a series of maps that shows everything to the same scale. Squee3 (talk) 02:18, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
::So to be honest, when you said "to the same scale and same aspect ratio," my mind only saw, "same image size". So I made sure they were the same dimensions! Because then it's easier to make GIF frames, which is my next project! Which is different than scale, of course. Whoops.
::That said, before going back through and trying that out I suppose I should ask why? What is the benefit you're anticipating from this? --Golbez (talk) 02:10, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
:::And since I used the same scale for NW NA as I did for Central NA, and probably will do for the Caribbean, then it is indeed just the Pacific scale that stands out. However, any attempt at matching scale would require either: 1) Truncating the map to just Hawaii; 2) Including everything in its own insets, but considering some of them are many times larger than Hawaii [like the TTPI] and already can consume a huge part of the map area, that doesn't seem like the best idea; or 3) creating an image roughly 4x larger in each dimension, making it somewhat useless. I don't like any of these options. --Golbez (talk) 18:20, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

I've redone Canada and the CSA entirely within QGIS, and I think I feel much more confident with it, and my ability to pipe out everything in the same scale is more doable. :) --Golbez (talk) 02:03, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

All of this is on the menu; however, this year has been hell. --Golbez (talk) 01:48, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

I got stuck on working on the colonial maps. Thanks for reminding me. --Golbez (talk) 19:39, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Hey I just wanted you to know that I've actually started building a new version of the maps; I'm a few weeks in and up to 1805, so it's a little slow, but it's happening, and I'll be absolutely sure to run a version of the maps at as equal a scale as I can do. Expect an update in a few weeks. :) --Golbez (talk) 20:02, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
:Since October I've made it up to 1946. I'm expecting to finish this run in a few weeks, so hopefully I'll have the images done then. --Golbez (talk) 19:12, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

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re maps

Yep, those are still on the way. The frame maps (the ones that show how it looked during a period of time, as opposed to the change maps which are the highlight of the article) are the background of all the changes, so most of that work has been done; I just need to some final massaging. As for the Pacific stuff, same deal, and question: Were you wanting the same-scale for both the frame maps and change maps, or only one? --Golbez (talk) 21:09, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

So, would this work? :File:Test file for unscaled Pacific map.png ↗ I set the scale to the same scale as the central maps (from 34000000 to 14425714), which was a shift of 2.36, and enlarged the canvas appropriately. Everything else is completely unchanged - all the labels and callouts are in the same place. If this looks good I'll fire off a full run. --Golbez (talk) 14:46, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

:You want them to be the same scale - i.e. the camera is placed the same height above the earth, so the speak - but also the same physical size, if I'm reading you correctly, but that can't be done, since the area of the Pacific is much larger. Logically, you can get either a similar physical size (which is what I go for normally, well close to it - I exported all my maps at 300 dpi), or a similar scale, but not both at the same time. --Golbez (talk) 02:27, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
::If you want it done of the Hawaii maps, then ... well first of all, that would be three maps at most, right? since those are the only changes that happened around Hawaii? I suppose I should ask what the purpose of these is for? --Golbez (talk) 02:22, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
:::There are plenty of maps of Hawaii on the internet, I see no reason why mine needs special treatment. If zoomed in on Hawaii it loses anything that makes it part of this project, it's just ... a map of Hawaii. Those exist. I'm going to again ask what this is for. --Golbez (talk) 03:18, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
::::Not a bad idea, but I'm going to again ask what this is for. --Golbez (talk) 19:46, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
:::::So it's a nice-to-have, rather than something with a specific intention, like an article or project. --Golbez (talk) 01:38, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
::::::I never said you were a nuisance, any negative comments were from someone else. If it was for a project then I would prioritize it, but just for pretty/nice to have... I have a lot of other aspects of it to work on before that. Wait a year or two and I actually intend to have a full website with images, references, shapefiles, for all the borders on this, and that might be more amenable to this. --Golbez (talk) 02:51, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
:::::::All of the map generation is now done in QGIS, are you familiar with that or other GIS software? --Golbez (talk) 18:19, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
::::::::I just upgraded to 4. --Golbez (talk) 19:37, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
:::::::::I'm sorry, I can't really help you get set up with it. Essentially the website I'd be working on would handle that. --Golbez (talk) 00:22, 22 March 2026 (UTC)
::::::::::It -is- prioritized, it always was. That's the schedule. Look, I can truncate Hawaii for you, I'll throw up a quick rescale (not resize) of NW and Caribbean, [though I'm in the middle of resizing the Caribbean map to include the full gulf (so I can do the MX/US maritime borders) so I won't do any big changes there] I'll get you reasonably close to what you want, but then I need to dip out. --Golbez (talk) 16:29, 22 March 2026 (UTC)
:::::::::::Projections are set. --Golbez (talk) 17:52, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

Your transcription updates at Talk:Yemenite Hebrew ↗

I'm letting you know that I've archived the section Talk:Yemenite Hebrew#Suggestion for transliteration? ↗, which can now be found at Talk:Yemenite Hebrew/Archive 1#Suggestion for transliteration? ↗. As an archived thread, it should no longer be edited.

However, it was already brought to your attention in 2019 that the section really didn't belong there and that you should stop editing it. This was announced at the top of the collapsed box that User:ToBeFree wrapped around the section to preserve it but keep it hidden, in response to a complaint ↗, {{tq|This is not a sandbox nor a general information page. You may like to use Special:MyPage/sandbox ↗, and see Help:Userspace draft ↗. Also see Talk:Yemenite_Hebrew#Edits_in_the_talk_page ↗. Thank you.}}

I'm not sure what your intention has been all this time, but with you repeatedly editing the section over the course of nineteen years, including eight years after the last signed contribution to it, it appeared you've been using it for a purpose that talk pages aren't meant to serve. It also had the effect of causing the page to appear repeatedly in the watchlists of users who watch that article even though you weren't making any changes that there was any reason for anybody to respond to. Hence the complaint: another user felt that it had reached the point of disruption. Further, it became apparent to me that something was going on (which led to my further investigation) when I saw that in the last 11 days, you've twice changed an example word, "eight", to "there" and then, twice, changed it back. Largoplazo (talk) 23:09, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

:Thanks for the ping! 2019, it's been a while. Weird. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 05:56, 23 June 2026 (UTC)