File talk:BlankMap-World-v3.png

Discussion from w:Image talk:BlankMap-World-v2.png

Ok Ive put together Image:BlankMap-World-v2 one click countries.PNG. Maybe I was going too far with French Guiana and Greenland but some of the other areas look ok -- Astrokey44|talk 04:00, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't mind lines (ones on my forehead notwithstanding!) but I'd be cautious about using this map – there are any number of territories (e.g., in the Caribbean, Oceania) that might require lines to the their parent countries. E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 00:30, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

I took out the cross-continental lines for this reason, and also it would be impossible to link all the countries with their colonies since the lines could not cross each other for the one click thing to work -- Astrokey44|talk 23:02, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Agreed ... MUCH better! I would not hesitate to use this map. :) Thanks again! E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 23:18, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I've made three very minor tweaks to the map:

• (1) I corrected (I think) the interlining of Bougainville Island, which is part of Papua New Guinea, not the Solomon Islands.
• (2) I've tweaked the interlining of w:Vancouver Island on the west coast of w:Canada (parallel with its southern border). I was also going to reconnect what I thought might be the w:Queen Charlotte Islands due to their westerly distance from the w:North American Pacific coast; however, due to their northern position, it is arguably (as was/is now) w:Prince of Wales Island, Alaska in the w:Alexander Archipelago.
• (3) I've restored the separate enclave of w:Nakhichevan. Kaliningrad is different since its interlining with w:Russia is, distinctly, in the w:Baltic Sea. However, interlinings on land (with the one colour) give the impression that N. is connected with w:Azerbaijan on land when it isn't.

Make sense? Again, great work! E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 23:58, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

ok 1 and 2 are fine, but w:Nakhichevan really bugs me. I think it should be removed completely - the map is not supposed to be totally geographically accurate to the last detail but give a general idea of where countries are for the purposes of showing statistics etc. There are some maps of the world which dont show it at all such as [1]. Its also smaller than currently depicted - its less than 1/5 the size of w:armenia and only 1/15 the size of w:azerbaijan (5500 km2 compared to 29,800km2 for armenia and 86,600km2 for azerbaijan) - I think since the map sets out to be a 'one click' map people would understand that its not shown. -- Astrokey44|talk 00:55, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Great; noted. On the one hand, it's just one more click like an island and N. is larger than the microstates encircled (>=2 500 km²); given the above, on the other hand, I'd support nixing N. from the map. If it remains, though, it should be separate and not connected/interlined to A. I'm sure someone will note N.'s exclusion – I once got into a discussion about the unity of Denmark on the map, ironically – but you can't please everyone all the time! :) E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 01:05, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

One last thing: I'd suggest renaming it something simpler – like Image:BlankMap-World-v3.png – and placing it. :) E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 00:01, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

The new name sounds good but images cant be moved on commons to a different name can they? -- Astrokey44|talk 00:55, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't think you can – I wish! You might just want to reupload the map and tag the prior one for speedy deletion (or similar) as a dupe. E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 01:05, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok Ive done this and also removed N. from the map -- Astrokey44|talk 02:24, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Greenland

There is no line between Greenland and Denmark. —the preceding unsigned comment is by 128.200.6.146 (talk • contribs)

there was on the first version but it was thought it would be best only to show territories joined that are close/on the same continent - otherwise it gets too messy and probably would be impossible to do anyway with all of them (falklands, french guiana, some european territories in the caribbean and the pacific). --Astrokey44 04:38, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Armenia

Why is Nakhichevan a part of Armenia? Someone should change this. Thanks. --Ahmetyal (talk) 15:17, 8 August 2011 (UTC)