User talk:Hessophanes/Regiohashing

Suggestions & Comments

May I suggest adding the data for Category:New Brunswick, Category:Nova Scotia & Category:Prince Edward Island next? They have their own maps on the category pages, so would be easy to add. Category:Rhode Island would be easy too. :)

Sure, but I really like recognizable shapes, so I'd first create a map of Canada (as the toplevel region) and then add its subregions bit by bit. I see that Robyn has created a map for British Columbia as well, so we already have 5 of 13 in easily convertible format... we can make the subregions as small as anyone likes (e.g. Australia:ACT is only two grats), but I'd like to make the regions large enough so that you know which part of the world you're looking at without knowing the URL. That said, I'm not very satisfied with Germany, because it looks quite distorted (due to its average latitude of 50N)... I'll build a Europe map soon, I guess. Hessophanes 11:09, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

1) Very nice work. As soon as my personal regional data doesn't look as pitiful as it does now (only 3 graticules) I'll add it to my page. 2) For people having problems recognizing the country: You could write the region and subregion names somewhere on the top. 3) If you build a Europe map, will Europe be a region or will it just be the background picture? Europe-Germany-Niedersachsen would be 3 different levels, this would probably mess up your code. 4) Difficult question: What are the borders of Europe to the east? a) Leave out Russia (except for the Kaliningrad region) and Turkey. Easy to make the file but there will be complaints. OR b) Turkey up to the Bosporus, Russia up to the Ural (Geography of Europe or the picture here). Danatar 18:37, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Heh, thanks - my list of visitied graticules is even shorter, but I had to create an example... - Well, I already had something like (2) in mind (I have mentioned the flag idea in the format description on the page itself), but I'm slowly running out of space up there with all the counters (oh, reminds me, I should upload my new version, I've implemented half of my current todo list while I was off). There are other possibilities than the top bar, though. (3) would need some reorganization in the code, but I've been pondering this for some time, too, so I've always made sure that it wouldn't be that hard to change. The problem is that there probably is no fixed hierarchy structure that would suit everyone - for Europe, nation:state or (for smaller nations) only nation would be enough, whereas North America needs at least one level more to give its regiohashers a fair chance. I haven't decided yet how I'll implement this and am open for recommendations (rephrase subregion= to accept subregion=subregionA:subregionA1:subregionA1a, drawing the borders in different colours, and counting the remaining graticules for the smallest subregion that hasn't been completed yet?). (4) is another tricky problem; I'd stop at the Ural Mountains, I guess. Russia would be split then, but I don't think this is a problem (unless someone wants to try to complete Russia). Hessophanes 22:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

I am so pleased with how the Australian version of this turned out, it's just great. I'll be on hand to help create more of these, as I think it really would be sweet. I'm working on NZ now, but that'll only take a day or two, so if you have sections of Europe or somewhere else you want done, let me know. If you don't I'll just start with...South America? Regards, Wol -- UnwiseOwl 03:49, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi! NZ will definitely be a great addition. I can't work on the tool at the moment because I have to meet a crucial deadline later today (and there's still a lot of coding to do), but I'll work on my agenda once I've found a bit of free time. All the encouraging remarks prove that my mind isn't completely insane (yet). Thanks! Hessophanes 23:17, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

South America is done (User:Joannac/South_America and User:Joannac/South_America2). My wiki page wouldn't save if i put them all into one page. Hopefully this is clear enough for you to parse, like you did with the Australia map? --joannac 10:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

I just noticed: REGIOhashing? Missing an 'n' there in the title... - Wmcduff 00:58, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

I'd say it stands for regio-nal, instead of region. Might be a germanism, we've got a lot of regio and interregio trains here. -- Relet 01:07, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

regio, regionis (f), latin for region, area, domain - Danatar 09:04, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Those crazy Australians have been at it again. I hope you find User:Joannac/North America‎, User:Joannac/North America2‎ and User:UnwiseOwl/Canada to your liking.

Regards, UnwiseOwl 09:12, 24 October 2008 (UTC) (on behalf of Joannac as well, of course.

What happens if we fix an error in these maps (for example, I just added a Canadian grat that had been missed)? Should we leave a note here for you? --joannac 21:59, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Howdy, Hessophanes. After a relazing couple of days, Joannac and I have been back at it. Good luck with User:Joannac/Africa, User:Joannac/Africa2, User:UnwiseOwl/Africa and User:UnwiseOwl/Africa2. Asia could take us a while.

Regards, UnwiseOwl 12:21, 28 October 2008 (UTC), on behalf of himself and Joannac.

Hessophanes, don't forget to add the Svalbard, Jan Mayen, Franz Josef Land and Novaja Semlja parts from my first Europe map to the world map. But don't use all of the first map, there were errors in the southern parts. Danatar 13:52, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey Hess, I think you need to add another digit to the top left...We seem to be maxed out in the world map. Sorry 'bout that. - UnwiseOwl 01:43, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

State Of Development

Just a short heads-up for all you industrious continent mappers: I'm currently reworking the code to support arbitrary region nesting and to keep prerendered maps in RAM across CGI invocations, so I can't include any more maps until the code is in usable shape again. Just pile up the finished maps on my verandah; your work is not in vain, it just might take a few days longer. Thanks!

Ok, I really have to remove Imagemagick from the pipeline. While I'm looking for the best way around it, I couldn't refrain from teaching my tool how to glue all the parts together to form a world map. (There is no query parameter yet for this because it would take ages on the server I'm hosting this.) Enjoy!