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Teofilo (talk) 20:17, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Teofilo (talk) 20:18, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Utilisation de vos cartes[edit]

Bonjour,

J'ai lancé un projet de réseau de wikis pour la recherche et l'innovation (WICRI). Ce projet s'appuie fortement sur l'expérience Wikipédia, avec des extensions (wikis sémantiques) et la notions de réseaux de wikis thématiques ou régionaux. 

 http://maquettewicri.loria.fr/fr.wicri/index.php5?title=Accueil

Nous sommes en train d'y installer les modèles associés et sommes amenés à utiliser fortement vos contributions iconographiques. Voir par exemple : 

 http://maquettewicri.loria.fr/fr.wicri-t-eau/index.php5?title=Lac_Majeur

Nous sommes au tout début de ce travail et dans un premier temps cherchons simplement à importer des pages de Wikipédia, avant de définir nos propres adaptations.

Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus vous pouvez me contacter à Jacques.Ducloy@loria.fr (j'ai bcp contrinué à WP il y a quelques années mais n'ai plus trop le temps, si vous voulez me contacter, il vaut mieux utiliser mon adresse mail)

Félicitations pour vos travaux

Jacques Ducloy

Ducloy (talk)

Madagascar relief map[edit]

I saw that you made this relief map of France. Could you please make make a relief map for Madagascar? Thanks you. – VisionHolder « talk » 02:45, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind. Someone jumped in and created the relief map. Thanks anyway. – VisionHolder « talk » 03:51, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the maps![edit]

Hi Eric Gaba-

My name is Ariel, and I am a graduate student in the USA. I will be using two or three of your maps for my master's thesis in geology as well as at a number of presentations (posters & oral). I wanted to thank you for being so prolific with vectorized maps of New Caledonia and the surrounding region. It is exceedingly difficult to find good maps of New Caledonia, and I'm terrible with GRASS GIS. I've only managed to hack out two high res, two-color, local area maps using GADM data in R. Just getting that done has made me understand what you have accomplished with the maps you've created, especially the ones you designed from the ground up.

I also wanted to tell you that Dr. Peter Bird of UCLA was my very first professor of geology! He taught me Introduction to Geology the year after he published that gigantic world tectonics map you vectorized. What a small world.

~Ariel Stewart

Answered. Sting (talk) 00:24, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Malpighia glabra[edit]

Eric,

Je suis l'éditeur de base de données Fitoterapia.net. Dans nos dossiers usine de joindre des photos qui sont généralement le mien. Onglet de Malpighia glabra ne disposent pas et nous avons inclus un de ses propres: http://www.fitoterapia.net/vademecum/vademecum_plantas_ficha.php?remedio=740 http://www.fitoterapia.net/vademecum/plantas/FOTOS/Malpighia_glabra-Eric%20Gaba.jpg

S'il le juge opportun, nous apporter les modifications que vous spécifiez. Merci beaucoup pour votre collaboration,

Cordialement,

Bernat Vanaclocha

Miletus bay silting map[edit]

Hi Sting,

ich habe heute einen Part deiner Map "Melitus Bay Silting" in meine Website http://www.heinzalbers.org/priene.htm übernommen. Merci beaucoup!

--Heinz Albers (talk) 13:39, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Quality Image Promotion[edit]
Your image has been reviewed and promoted

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Comments Great valuable panorama, very informative. Meets the criteria for QI, imo.--MrPanyGoff 08:30, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File:Egypt relief location map.jpg[edit]

Hello! Some changes in Egypt: Gouvernorat de Helwan became part of Gouvernorat du Caire and Gouvernorat du 6 Octobre became part of Gouvernorat de Gizeh. File:Egypt location map.svg is already updated. Regards, NNW (talk) 16:06, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File:France relief location map.jpg[edit]

Hi. I used the map of France (with some overlaid text) in the following webpage: http://www.memoryofcolors.com/blog/2011/04/bigouden-2007/ I have linked back to this page within a WordPress comment. Thanks for making the map available. VdHamer (talk) 22:29, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

use @ mountwiki.com[edit]

Hi,

Mountwiki.com is pleased to be able to use your topographic images (for example: http://www.mountwiki.com/wiki/view/Breithorn). We are of course citing you as the source of the images!

Utilisation[edit]

Bonjour monsieur Gaba,

Je suis un étudiant du Québec, et pour un de mes projets, j'utuliserais une de vos photos. ( celle avec une vue aérienne des invalides )

Bien entendu je vais indiquer que c'est vous l'auteur (de cette façon : © Copyright Eric Gaba)

Est-ce que vous me le permettez ?

Merci !

Scotland map[edit]

Hi there,

I would like to use your image of Scotland, Scotland_map-en.jpg, for commercial purposes in my mobile app. Assuming I credit you in my "About" section, would this be acceptable?

Please contact me at ian@designiscentral.com if you have any concerns.

Thank you, Ian

Utilisation de cartes[edit]

Bonjour, je souhaiterais utiliser une de vos cartes (carte topographique des Pyrénées Atlantiques)pour illustrer mon futur site consacré au Pays Basque. J'attends votre autorisation. Cordialement Hervé

For your information[edit]

I noted your unacceptable current behavior at COM:AN. Calling someone "Kacke" isn't the way to go. -- ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼ 苦情処理係 18:34, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]


@Sting, though I usually disagree with Niabot over many issues, your comment "You might be a ..." at FPC is clearly understood as a personal attack and is inacceptable. I strongly recommend you to remove this sentence. --Túrelio (talk) 18:45, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki creative commons mapping tool[edit]

Hello, Yug told me that you are one of experts of Wiki Commons mapping community. I be very happy if you have to time to examine ShareMap community creative commons mapping tool. Yug already shared his opinion, but I want to gather as much community experts as I can. Look at ShareMap discussion page.

Regards --ShareMap (talk) 15:58, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

/* Province de Liège */[edit]

Hallo, je suis un historien allemande, qui travaille sur les châteaux belges. J'ai l'idee de faire une carte géographique avec la position de châteaux pour la province de Liège comme une carte se existe pour des châteaux allemands. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Karte_Mittelrhein.png J'ai aucun idee comme faire. Merci verweis=Portal:Burgen und Schlösser --W.Mechelke (talk) 16:02, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Demande d'autorisation pour utilisation d'une de vos images[edit]

Bonjour,

Actuellement étudiant en école d'ingénieur, j'aurais aimé pour mon rapport de stage illustrer la localisation des différentes succursales de l'entreprise dans laquelle je travaille. Ayant recherché pour se faire une carte de France, j'ai découvert votre travail ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:France_location_map-Regions.svg?uselang=fr ).

M'autoriseriez vous à réutiliser cette carte (dans le respect de la licence Creative Common)?

La modification que j'y apporterai serait le simple ajout de quelques villes. La carte serait ensuite incluse dans mon rapport, remis à l'école en fin d'année.

Vous remerciant d'avance pour votre réponse.

Use of Peloponnese map[edit]

Sir, I am a zoologist. I am writing a paper on a insect species living in the Peloponnese and I'd like to use your Peloponnese blank map to show the places where this animal is living. The paper will be published in the scientific journal of a museum, as a non commercial publication. The picture will be credited as "Courtesy of Eric Gaba" or "Courtesy of Eric Gaba, available on Wikimedia Commons". Please get in touch with me for any communication. Thanks, Marco

News pour l'été 2011[edit]

Salut Sting,

Je viens de voir que tu es encore actif (Sud Soudan). L'archange cartographe est toujours là : ]

GIS on wiki

J'en profite pour te signaler cette initiative: en:Template:Digital_cartography_tutorials. je pense que tu l'as vu, mais je te la signale pour être sûre. Mon objectif est double :

  1. proposer une alternative à GRASS, qui m'a toujours effrayé, et
  2. pousser la communauté anglaise vers des cartes de qualité GIS, aspect où ils sont très faibles.

Pour l'instant les apprenants les plus sérieux on été Bourrichon et Otourly, 2 francais.... (how is it possible !??) puis MissMJ, qui a corrigé mon 'anglais'. On vera ce que cela donnera, j'espère que les anglais s'y mettront. : ] !

GIS out of Wiki

Autre ground breaking news, c'est l'émergeance de ShareMap.org . C'est un travail très impressionnant, un google maps pour wikipedia, qui pourrait avoir des conséquences très importantes si bien mener. Òh, dernière infor, je suis de retour en France pour un an, vers Bayonne ou Paris. On sait jamais, cela pourrait être une info utile. Bonne route à toi : ] Yug (talk) 11:20, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

gdaldem for entire world[edit]

Hello, Yug told me that you experienced with gdaldem tool, so maybe you can answer me on two questions related with creation entire world shaded relief map

  • How to show depression as depression not in blue like ocean?
  • How to show artctic and polar regions in white (with other palette) - I want to achieve similar effect that on Google Maps Terrain View

Can you share with me you your gdaldem shaded relief pallette? I want to compare it with mine (build upon WikiMap convention)

I am using ETOPO1 Bedrock data.

Regards --ShareMap (talk) 21:42, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Sting, thanks for reply I am trying to create good looking shaded relief topographic background for entire world. This background will be available in ShareMap as a alternative to the satellita view (NASA WorldWind) and Street View (Open Street Maps) - so backgrounds will be similiar to Google One - sattelite, road, terrain. This background then will be included in SVG files (because it will on the free license). I thing that you are right that ice sufrace will be better than bedrock. I thinked about problem with depression and I thing the solution will created three layers with transparency that will be put together

  • World overlay (everything under 0m alt is treated as depression)
  • Oceans in "water platte" (mask from Natural Earth)
  • Glaciers in "glacier palette" (mask from Natural Earth)
  • Lakes and rivers in "water platte" (mask from Natural Earth)
  • Hillshade

Masking means that everything except masked area will be set as transparent I think that this can be simplified when we use depression areas at mask, but unfortunately i think that it is not available --ShareMap (talk) 18:50, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Using photo of user Sting[edit]

Sting,

I will be using Gazelle_SA342M.jpg‎ (800 × 303 pixels, file size: 169 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg).

I shall have your name credited (Sting).

Thank you for the image.

You may reach me

John

You're welcome. Sting (talk) 03:19, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

attribution letter - request to use your image - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Socrates_Louvre.jpg[edit]

Dear "Sting" hello,

My name is Lily Yudinsky, I am a visual researcher for The Center for Educational Technology (CET) ,a NGO dedicated to the advancement of the education in Israel. CET operates a website. The URL is: www.cet.ac.il We are now writing learning textbook : The Middle Ages for 7th grade for highschool pupils in Israel. I would like to let you know that we are going to use in the printed textbooks and also in their on-line versions in the web and in CET's History site and CET's Virtual Library – your photo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Socrates_Louvre.jpg

We shall of course give you a credit as the photographer of this photo.

Thank you very much for sharing your beautiful photo.

I thank you in advance for your kind help and cooperation.

Sincerely yours, Lily Yudinsky Photo Research and Resources Center for Educational Technology (CET) P.O.B 39513, Tel Aviv 61394, Israel

You're welcome. Glad to know this photograph mine is usefull for you. Sting (talk) 21:29, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Carte avec indicatrix de déformation de Tissot[edit]

Bonjour, Félicitations pour ces excellentes cartes. C'est exactement ce que je cherchais pour illustrer un chapitre sur un livre que je suis en train d’écrire dans lequel j’essaie de raconter un voyage virtuel d'échelle, de l'atome à l'univers. Je vais utiliser 2 cartes, l'une la projection cylindrique équidistante, l'autre avec la projection de Mollweide, avec les indicatrix de déformation de Tissot. Je n'oublie pas de mentionner l'auteur. Cordialement,

Olivier Domarle

Merci. Je suis content de savoir que ces cartes vous sont utiles. Sting (talk) 11:52, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Using your photo - File:Socrates Louvre.jpg in a History learning textbook for 7th grade students[edit]

Dea Sting,

We are goint to use your photo File:Socrates Louvre.jpg in a History learning textbook for 7th grade students in Israel. We shall give your a credit as the photographer of this image as you adked. Thank you for sharing your photo. Best regards, Dvora Gruda.

You're welcome. Glad to know this photograph can be helpfull for students. Sting (talk) 17:42, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

using your photo - File:Socrates Louvre.jpg[edit]

Dear Eric Gaba,

I would like to let you know that we are going to use the photo in a history textbook for 7th grade school students and in its on-line version.

Thank you very much. Best wishes. Dvora Gruda. dvorag@cet.ac.il

please complet the maps of my county , i dont see the morrocan sahara ![edit]

please complet the maps of my county , i dont see the morrocan sahara !

colonial africa map[edit]

Howdy,

I'm using your map of colonial Africa in an online course I'm creating for an online high school world history course in Virginia. Thanks for the great map!

niels miller

Thanks for the info. You're welcome. Sting (talk) 13:54, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Are you kidding me?[edit]

Dans le cas où tu ne comprends pas ce que j'ai écrit obtenir un traducteur possédant une connaissance de "svg", s'il te plaît.

The files I tagged contain raster elements which they obviously should not contain. This is easily verifiable with three mouse clicks. I honestly don't know what else to say. I would like an explanation. If you don't understand what I wrote get a translator. Answer here, please I watch the page. Otherwise I will get even more pissed off than I already am. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 14:49, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Wow!! That's really a very “kind word” as introduction for someone whose actions show that he doesn't understand what he's doing and from a ”contributor” who doesn't even have a user page.
First, don't try to change the roles because the one who made destructive edits is you, so those who should be ”pissed off” are all the real contributors who spent hours or days creating maps or other images for the whole community as well as the same who are in position to ask for explanation as your behavior is not constructive but destructive.
Yes, you don't know what you're doing or don't care because you edit without discrimination or trying to understand what's in the files:
  1. Where is it written that a SVG file must only contain SVG material?
  2. It's not because a SVG map has a raster image embedded in it that turns it no more a SVG map;
  3. ”The files I tagged contain raster elements which they obviously should not contain”: it shows again that you didn't even try to understand why there are raster elements in those SVG files;
  4. You delete from the description pages the category SVG maps... and replace it with the one of the common raster maps while they are SVG files;
  5. You delete from the description pages the template ”translation possible” where there is not one single reason to do so: the text in those maps is vector, easily translated, so you made this without giving the slightest look to these files;
  6. If you have problem with raster images embedded in SVG files, complain to the software editors (for example) and ask them to delete this functionality, not here.
As you write (if I understood well) that you knew what you were doing, I can only see your edits as vandalism (deleting the “Translation possible” template being only one obvious and screaming example).
Therefore I will ask you to stay away from those files and stop your undiscriminated modifications. Next time I may only be as polite as you were. Sting (talk) 23:09, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pretty impressive. The namecaller complains about politeness. Tell me: Why are there raster elements in those SVG files? I'm not going to answer the rest due to lack of relevance. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 06:41, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

  • I removed the SVG cats because these are not real svgs espacially in the case of maps there the whole backgrund is raster. So the cat is misleading.
  • I removed translation possible because the files should be fixed before they are translated.
  • Further information.

--Cwbm (commons) (talk) 10:21, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

I've reverted the removal of the raster layer from some of these files. I'll start slapping protection on these files if you don't start discussing this (and stop the name-calling). The raster data in these files is one, subsidiary, element of the map (the shading of the relief), and removal of it degrades the output quality.

Maybe it could be handled as SVG elements, but it isn't in these files. That means {{BadSVG}} may be appropriate, depending on if it can be replaced with a fully-vectorised version without quality loss. It is translateable in current form and being fully in SVG is not a necessary condition for translation, "This SVG file uses embedded text that can be easily translated into your language" is true of these files.--Nilfanion (talk) 10:46, 8 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I hadn't realized that raster data was the shading of the relief. If I had I obviously hadn't removed it. My mistake. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 11:43, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Nilfanion for your external point of view and bring back some order.
Cwbm: your bad faith equals the lack of consideration for others contributions, taking radical actions without trying to get the minimal understanding of those files and deleting elements basing your edits on your sole opinion. Sting (talk) 14:45, 8 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for use of your photo.[edit]

I'm updating old articles in my blog and added one of your photos to an old article. It's here: http://rbellew.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/premature-hard-drive-failures/ Nice photo!

Thanks! You're welcome. Sting (talk) 11:38, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

plate tectonics map[edit]

Dear Sting,

I have used your map (a vision of consummate beauty!) as a referential appendix in my 1st year (2500wd) geology essay.

I have given you full in-text and bibliographic credit for your superb compilation; and [you have]at the same time, set the anti-wiki academic faculty alight!

Sensational work,

Biggest Thanx. Evan Thomas (Melbourne, Australia)

Thanks you very much for this very nice support! I hope being able to contribute usefully for much more time, not only here on the Wikipedias, but also for people all over the World like you. That's the best consecration a contributor can receive. Sting (talk) 22:49, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dymaxion Map[edit]

Hi,

I was wondering how you created the Dymaxion SVG map as used in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map I want to create a more elaborate map with rivers, country-borders, capitals etc. However Dymaxion is not a typical projection and none of my usual mapping tools do support it. I'm looking for a way to transform the naturalearth shapefiles (http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/) into a SVG dymaxion map, if you have any pointers, please let me know.

regards, Steven

Hi Steven.
Yes, there are very few GIS software able to handle this peculiar projection. I found the Virtual Terrain Project's site which edits the free VTP application that re-projects in the Dymaxion one. As its name says, it's not a GIS software but handles these data.
As there are two and a half year I created it I don't remember exactly how I did, but I think I wasn't able for example to draw the grid line in VTP so I opened the data in Global Mapper, kept the Geographic projection, exported them with the grid lines into a format handled by VTP, re-projected them in Fuller's one and then exported the map (directly as image, in svg? - I don't remember -).
Hope this helps. Sting (talk) 11:17, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Israel relief location map-blank[edit]

Hello Eric, we need a map to show the general location of Jerusalem on its page in the infobox at En.WP. Right now there's a map of the city streets because there's a dispute that editors won't resolve. Some don't want it in a map of Israel and others don't want it in Palestine. It's not easy to get cooperation at this point.

I think just the terrain in your map (blank) would do the job well but I couldn't get your original one to leave out the Israel boundaries.

So I made a copy of it and named it File:Dead Sea terrain location map.jpg. When I tried it on the page it shows an error. There maybe be something in the naming or info in it that I'm not understanding.

If you have some advice or know that it's a simple problem to fix the Dead Sea map, it could help us. This way it won't say Israel anywhere on it. Or alternately, if you have another suggestion.

Many thanks, --MichaelNetzer (talk) 23:20, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I responded to your message on my talk page. Thanks. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 07:22, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I couldn't agree more. There's a lot of heat around Israel right now and it's growing. We solved the problem with a compromise I drafted based on other maps. It's works fine. Thanks for the good help, I understand the templates a little better now. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 22:13, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Leros, le Meandre et Milète[edit]

Je vous remercie de votre carte archéologique de Milet et du Méandre depuis l’antiquité à nos jours. Je compte l’utiliser pour des raisons éducatives pour les habitants de Leros sur leurs publications "Nouvelles de Leros". Bien à vous, Michel Xilinas

Paris ?[edit]

Salut Sting, Je viens de me souvenir que tu passes sur Paris en "novembre-Decembre". Je suis sur Paris juqu`au ~20, fais moi signe quand tu passes sur Paris, histoire de faire une discussion. Salutation. -- Hugo / Yug

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