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usage of France location map-Regions and departements.svg

Eric, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Corp., will be reusing your France location map (France location map-Regions and departements.svg) as part of a PowerPoint presentation entitled, ‘An Overview of Population Health Management,’ which will be given to ~1200 health care professionals as a speakers’ engagement over the course of 2 years. The presentation will be given in the US in English only. It will be stored on a password-protected Merck site (www.merckspeakerservices.com) for only contracted and approved key opinion leaders to access (~12 KOLs) for a period of 2 years. Amanda

Thank you for the information. Sting (talk) 19:27, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Image Reproduction Message

Dear Mr. Gaba,

I'm writing to thank you for allowing your images to be reproduced. A student from Williams College, a non-profit educational institution, used your image of Socrates in the Louvre for a TEDxWilliamsCollege presentation. You can contact us at:

880 Main Street, Hopkins Hall 4th floor, P.O. Box 676

Williamstown, MA 01267 USA

Thanks again,

Madeline Vuong PR Intern Communications Office Williams College

Thank you for the information. I'm glad to know this image is used for educational purpose. Sting (talk) 19:30, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Use of Africa relief map in Social Studies textbook for Zambia

Dear Eric I found your relief map of Zambia on Wikimedia Commons and saw that it was licenced as CC-WP-SA (which therefore includes commercial use). I trust, therefore, that it will be acceptable to use this map for free in a Social Studies textbook for Zambia, which I am handling as a freelance editor for Oxford University Press in South Africa. We are trying to keep the book as affordable as possible for Zambian learners.

I look forward to hearing whether you will allow us to use this photo in the tectbook!

Thanks and best wishes Linda Bredenkamp

Answered. Sting (talk) 19:42, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

France map

Hello Eric

As you have specified, I am letting you know that I would like to use your picture "France location map-Regions and departements.svg" for use on the English language 'Championnat National' Wikipedia page to display the location of the clubs on a map. My username is Patsd4. Thank you for your consideration.

Thank you for the information. Sting (talk) 19:44, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

File:SPLIT-Hebrard overall color restitution.jpg

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El Chivo 2 (talk) 17:34, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

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El Chivo 2 (talk) 17:35, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Question about reprinting one of your figures

Hi Mr. Gaba,

I am currently writing my undergraduate geology thesis and was wondering if I could have permission to reprint a slightly altered version of your plate tectonic figure (specifically the section over Asia) that i found here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics and here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Tectonic_plates_boundaries_detailed-en.svg

I would also like to print it on a poster that will be hung for about one year in the hallway of my university's geology and physics building. I will not be presenting the poster to a large audience, however it will be visible to anyone who visits the building.

I can assure you that your work will be fairly credited. Please let me know if this is okay. I look forward to hearing from you.

Best, Julia user:Jcarrizosa

Hello Julia. Thank you for the information. I'm glad to know that this map can be helpful for your student work. Sting (talk) 19:51, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Your rights

Hi Eric. Please take a look to File:Placa de Anatolia.png. It does not seem to be a own work, but a derivative one of yours File:Tectonic plates boundaries detailed-en.svg. Gustronico (talk) 18:25, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Well, I've just realized that user Daroca90 has created many other "own works". Gustronico (talk) 18:37, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Italy topographic map-blank.svg

Dear Eric, thank you! I've just made a derivative from your map. There is a problem, while trying luxo's derivative upload tool I got this error ("this file has been nominated for deletion!"). I tryied to reformat the license template of the file, but did not work. May be you're more expert than me (of course you are, I'm not expert at all!) and would take a look at this problem. Since your map is a splendid starting base for other works, it would be nice having luxo's upload working fine on it. Again, thanks. -- Fulvio ³¹⁴ 08:02, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

A message to Wikimedia Commons user: Sting regarding his copyrights

I am writing because I want to use this picture in the book I am writing. I wrote a letter about it, but I am not sure I want it to be posted here for everyone to see.

Hello.

May be you can indicate what picture you want to use. I'll be glad also if you can tell me the title and subject of the book you're writing.

Anyway, you're authorized to freely use the picture I created as long as you credit me as the author in your publication.

Greetings. Sting (talk) 23:39, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Je veux des photos de forêt please merci

THANKS!

What a RAD map of Alaska and the continental USA. You are credited where we have used it in preparing for our group service trip. Thanks for sharing! Bree Camas, WA

Thank you. You're welcome. Sting (talk) 01:13, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Via Egnatia map

Many thanks for doing such a good map for the Via Egnatia. I will be using it when I teach on St Paul's letter to the Philippians tomorrow – with attribution, of course.

Kind regards,

Tony Watkins

Thank you Tony. You're welcome. Sting (talk) 01:13, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Map of Villereversure in relation to France

Thank you for providing the map. I am using it on my family tree to identify where an ancestor originated. You have been credited as you requested.

Best Regards

P A Boen

Thank you P. A. Boen. You're welcome. Sting (talk) 01:14, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi

Hola nuevamente. Somos una organización de educación y conservación ambiental localizada al sur de Puerto Rico www.ATABEY.Info.. Usamos el mapa como herramienta educativa en diversos programas e iniciativas. Actualmente nombramos en el mapa algunos lugares de alto valor ecológico, tales como bosques y reservas por ejemplo, y adicionalmente traducimos la información del inglés al español. La imagen la reproducimos en un rompecabezas, se ve muy bien y permite que los usuarios tengan una experiencia interactiva inusual. Reproduciremos estos rompecabezas y los distribuiremos solicitando un donativo para recaudar fondos y comenzar el desarrollo de un centro ecopedagógico. A la imagen añadimos la mención de usted como autor y dirección de este mapa en Wikipedia. Esperamos nos pueda enviar una notita como respuesta a efectos de mantenerlo en récord. Muy valioso su trabajo, lo preservaremos como CC. Un placer y le motivamos a qué continúe desarrollando mapas como este. Un abrazo solidario. 18004016740

Mucho gracias! Sting (talk) 01:16, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

File:Diane de Versailles Leochares 2.jpg

Hi Eric, I will be using this image in an essay to be published in a small-run independent journal. I can send you more detailed info once it is released. Thanks for the image.

All best, v. sming

File:Corse region relief location map.jpg

Bonjour, Je tenais à vous informer que j'ai réutilisé le fichier pour en faire une carte de ligne ferroviaire : . Merci à vous et bonne journée ! Math (d) 13:47, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Awesome

Great work

Administrative division of Egypt

Dear Sting, as it seems, were the boundaries of the Egyptian governements changed around 2011, most drastically in the Red Sea, Aswan and New Valley Governorates (Red Sea and New Valley lost area to Aswan), but also in other areas.

Some official web sites documenting the new boundaries are here:

• [1]
• [2]
• CAPMAS pages

User:NordNordWest already put new SVG maps here (those with "(2011)" in the file name).

I still need to ask you to put the new boundaries on the location map, thank you.

Greetings,--Ratzer (talk) 08:19, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Hello Ratzer. Thank you for the information. I updated the map.

It is really difficult to find references about the new shape of the boundaries: except the links you give there are very few maps on the Web with the updated boundaries. Even the GADM shows the old shape. Googling for a while I didn't find any textual reference about the modification of the shape of the Governorates. Greetings. Sting (talk) 20:19, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Sting, thank you for the map updates. I also found it unsatisfactory that no textual information about those boundary changes appears to be online. However, colleague RolandUnger on the German Wikipedia knows more about it, and mentioned that the boundary changes are documented in Presidential Decree 114/2008 and Decree of the Supreme Council of the Amred Forces 63/2011. By the way, the new boundaries are also shown at Citypopulation.de, which is not an official webpage, but which in this case refers to CAPMAS. Most insterestingly, this map not only shows the governorate boundaries, but also the level below (districts or markaz). Greetings,--Ratzer (talk) 09:17, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Big lake in the in the southeast of Costa Rica?

There's a big lake on your Costa Rica map ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Costa_Rica_relief_location_map.jpg/1024px-Costa_Rica_relief_location_map.jpg ) at approximate 9 / -83.25. I cannot find this lake in other maps. I can just find this confluence in that region: https://www.google.com/maps/@9.0094233,-83.2178926,3879m/data=!3m1!1e3

en:El Diquís Hydroelectric Project, obviously still in the planning stages, map showing the area to be flooded, I presume.--Ratzer (talk) 20:04, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

You're right, looks like the Vmap-0 data isn't very much accurate. Thanx for pointing my attention on this point. I'm already preparing a new version. Sting (talk) 13:29, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

BTW, this was not my contribution, but of IP 132.230.69.46 who forgot to sign. I only added the explanation, but the IP did not respond anymore. Greetings,--Ratzer (talk) 09:17, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Use of NATO map

We would like to use your map on AB in France pre-1966 for a feature on our site regarding deGaulle's decision to withdraw from NATO. Our site is www.adst.org; we are a small non-profit.

Thank you,

Chris Sibilla

You're welcome. Thank you for the information. Sting (talk) 16:59, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Africa map (used to create an Partition of Africa map)

Hello We used your Africa map ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Africa_location_map_without_rivers.svg ) in our project here: http://www.infoescola.com/historia/partilha-da-africa/

Credit was given along with proper license (CC-BY-SA). Thank you!

Obrigado pela informação. Fico feliz saber que este mapa serve para seu projeto educacional. Sting (talk) 17:08, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Richard Ansdell, The Fight for the Standard, 1847

Dear Erica Gaba,

The Battle of Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell To be published by HarperCollins Publishers, September 2014

This is to confirm that HarperCollins will be reproducing the painting by Richard Ansdell, The Fight for the Standard, 1847, inside the above book due for publication in September. I established that the painting is on loan to Edinburgh Castle from the Royal Hospital Chelsea who own the work. Both have kindly granted permission to reproduce the work and the following credit line will appear amongst the list of illustrations:

The Fight for the Standard by Richard Ansdell, 1847. Painting hangs in The Great Hall, Edinburgh Castle. Reproduced by kind permission of Royal Hospital Chelsea. Photograph courtesy Eric Gaba, Wikimedia Commons

Thank you very much for making this work available for use.

With very best wishes,

Mel Haselden Picture Research (on behalf of HarperCollins)

Julia Koppitz Senior Editor HarperCollins Publishers 77-85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith London W6 8JB

Thank you for the information. I'm glad to know this reproduction is useful for you. Sting (talk) 13:18, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

use of map

Hello, I have placed a copy of your map of Via Egnatia on a page of my travel blog here: http://aroomnearthebazaar.ca/istanbul-1/traces-of-byzantium-2/

Hope this is the message you requested.

Peter Grant

Thank you Peter. I'm glad to see that map can illustrate your website. Sting (talk) 13:21, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Québec map

Hi M. Gaba,

I'd like to use the Québec map for a course, if possible. Thank you,

Anne Fugère

Answered. Sting (talk) 13:29, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Use of image

Hi, I've used an image made by you at http://vici.org/vici/10674/Therme_%28Cahors%29 . Merci beaucoup! --René Voorburg (talk) 11:54, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

use scottish map

Dear, I would like to use your scottish map for a design project on whiskeys. Is that allright? And how can I download it. greetz, Renee

Hello Renee.

Yes, you are authorized to freely use that map as long as you inform the credits of the image.

To download the full version of an image, go to its description page here on Wikimedia Commons. Right-click on the link “Original file” located just bellow the image and then click on “Save target as...”. I hope this helps. Sting (talk) 12:25, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Authorization

Oi, Eric! Como podemos ter a sua autorização para reproduzir a sua foto:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pra%C3%A7a_3_Poderes_Bras%C3%ADlia_panorama.jpg

... em um livro didático de circulação nacional? Por favor, entre em contato comigo

Hi, Eric! How can we get your authorization to reproduce your photo:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pra%C3%A7a_3_Poderes_Bras%C3%ADlia_panorama.jpg

... on a didatic brazilian book? Please, mail me

Respondido. Sting (talk) 01:21, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Greenland map

Dear Erik,

I would like to use your Greenland map for a book about the Earth and climate change. Can you provide me with a high quality version of that map? Of course it will be acknowledged as you specify.

With thanks, Milton Cole Penn State University Physics Department

Answered. Sting (talk) 12:12, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Use of Map in academic presentation

I would like to use your map for a US Army War College presentation I am making as a student for one of my classes.

Thank you, COL Chris Lackovic USAWC AY-15 Seminar 12

112 Forbes Ave. Carlisle, Barracks, PA 17013

Good day sir,

I'm glad one of my maps can be useful to you for educational purpose. Thank you for the message. Sting (talk) 11:52, 24 November 2014 (UTC)