Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Antarctica satellite globe.jpg delist

Antarctica satellite globe

Well, shiver me timbers. Antarctica is a cold, cold place.

A higher-resolution replacement, suggested by Night Gyr.

"Full size" image, generated by Dave Pape

The resolution of this image is far too low to be a featured picture. It was promoted back in 2004 when the FP requirements were less strict.

• Delist Strong Replace with Davepape's version. - ♠ SG →Talk 19:22, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Outstanding! ♠ SG →Talk 17:37, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keepnewer version is much better.. All I can say is wow. Davepape's version is so much better. NauticaShades^(talk) 20:04, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
• Replace with Image:Antarctica satellite orthographic.jpg, it's higher res but essentially the same image and meets the requirements. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 20:38, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
• Replace per Night Gyr. Davepape.--Andrew c 21:22, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
• Abstaining, as I have another option to throw at you. Neither of the two images really makes full use of the Blue Marble data, which prompted me to make a new one that does. Image:Antarctica 6400px from Blue Marble.jpg is a 6400x6400 orthographic projection of Antarctica; at this size, it's more or less the full 1 km resolution of the satellite data (since orthographic isn't an equal area projection, one can't say that exactly). (FWIW, as far as I can tell Blue Marble Next Generation didn't improve on the resolution of Antarctica, so I stuck with the older data.) --Davepape 08:02, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
• Question. Why is a part of the ocean coloured black in the upper right corner of the continent? It doesn't look like missing data to me as the coastline appears intact. --KFP (talk | contribs) 09:02, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
  • It's in the source image. It looks to me like there was some missing or incorrect data in the land/sea mask that they used to fill the ocean in with a flat blue. I have touched it up manually in response to your & Janke's comments. --Davepape 14:29, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
  • BTW, since I've done a moderate amount of work on this now, if there's any concern about it being a back-door route to FP, I'd be fine with making the new image a separate nom so more people see it and respond. --Davepape 14:34, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
• Replace wit full-res image, but fix black ocean part first. --Janke | Talk 10:28, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Kept, but replaced with full-size version. howcheng {chat} 00:10, 17 October 2006 (UTC)