Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Survey of Palestine

Survey of Palestine edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 19 Sep 2020 at 15:36:08 (UTC)

Original – Combined high resolution Survey of Palestine map

Reason: Meets all 8 of the WP:FP? criteria, and represents the highest resolution 1:100,000 Survey of Palestine fully combined map available anywhere. The stitching of the 24 underlying maps has been done to a high technical standard, as has the georeferencing. The map is of great encyclopaedic value, representing the territory of Mandatory Palestine immediately prior to its dissolution into Israel and the Palestinian territories and the dispersion of the Palestinian refugees.
Articles in which this image appears: Survey of Palestine
FP category for this image: Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps
Creator: Survey Department of Palestine (stitched by DutchTreat)

Support as nominator – Onceinawhile (talk) 15:36, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Caution: this image is 450 MB and 300 Mpx. MER-C 17:11, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – EV? – Sca (talk) 22:21, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Sca: I have amended the nom text above to make this clear. Onceinawhile (talk) 13:44, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I fail to see the point in this technical exercise in cartography. – Sca (talk) 21:23, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Sca: This has created the only highly detailed map of Mandatory Palestine, and it happens to be at the exact moment of its dissolution. Do you also not see the point of these four FPs: File:Daedongyeojido-full.jpg, File:Turgot map of Paris - Norman B. Leventhal Map Center.jpg, File:USPostRoadMap1804.jpg, and File:Waldseemuller map 2.jpg? This historical and encyclopaedic import of this map is on par with all of those. Onceinawhile (talk) 21:30, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A suggestion: how about a JPEG version with a file size of about 70 or 80 MB? It's not easy to open at 424MB. Bammesk (talk) 02:55, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Created a JPEG version with a white background. This file is around 60 MB. Let me know if you want any other changes - DutchTreat (talk) 10:34, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, much easier to open (with some additional minor artifacts at magnification). I did some spot checks and couldn't find any serious alignment problems. The rectangular grids don't always line up, but that seems to be a feature of the maps, not necessarily an alignment problem. I am Ok with supporting either the JPEG or the PNG, one is easier to open and the other has higher quality. I wait to see if others find any problems. Bammesk (talk) 03:16, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Bammesk (talk) 19:50, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose for now - the stitching is not quite right in places. MER-C 16:32, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @MER-C: would you mind pointing out exactly where? Just in case there is a misunderstanding here, e.g. with the intended grid-shift at the top. Onceinawhile (talk) 21:19, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There's a bunch of discontinuities across y~18800, particularly near the left hand side. These are mostly contours that are duplicated or terminate. If the map is actually like that, then please say so and I will withdraw my oppose. MER-C 16:23, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@MER-C:, @Onceinawhile: - Please find a close-up view of the coordinates (040, 070) at pixels y~18800. The original scans for 14Rafa and 17Nitsana have mismatched contour lines. For example, the diagonal line from SW to NE at (040,078) is only part of 17 (lower image), not part of 14 (upper image):

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Survey of Palestine 1942-1958 1-100,000 14Rafa, close-up at 040,075

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Survey of Palestine 1942-1958 1-100,000 17Nitsana, close-up at 040,075

- DutchTreat (talk) 13:07, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK, fair enough. MER-C 14:30, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.5% of all FPs} 18:03, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 18:06, 13 Sep!ltember 2020 (UTC)
Support. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:14, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I have produced a new version of the file with tighter cropping. Due to the size > 100 MB, I am unable to update the original version. Should it be uploaded under a new file name and the nomination process continue with this new file? - DutchTreat (talk) 20:30, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- You want commons:User:Rillke/MwJSBot.js Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.4% of all FPs} 02:42, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Adam Cuerden Thanks for the tip. I uploaded improved versions using User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js which is based on User:Rillke/MwJSBot.js - DutchTreat (talk) 12:03, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Survey of Palestine 1942-1958 1-100,000 sheet index georef.png --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:43, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]