User talk:Ixnayonthetimmay

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Ixnayonthetimmay, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  IZAK 11:49, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Queen Creek

Very nice work on the Queen Creek page! BJTalk 01:23, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MT Maps

Hey, nice work with the metro Tucson maps. The previous maps I developed on my own, using data from the U.S. Census. The unincorporated areas are Census Designated Places (CDPs). If I remember correctly, I searched the U.S. Census site and eventually found them. I don't know how helpful that is, but let me know if you have any other questions. Good luck! Mxpc05 20:23, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maricopa Maps

I like what you've done with the Maricopa County maps and cities there. I was just wondering where you found the basic Maricopa County map and if they have them for other counties. I would like to do the same kind of image for other cities as well. ONEder Boy 00:52, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the positive response! I am always happy to hear praise for my contributions to this collective base of intelligence we call Wikipedia. To answer your question, the map I made was based on the following file found on the Maricopa Association of Governments website:
I managed to find something similar for Pinal County, but am having a hard time finding other such data for the other counties in Arizona. I am not sure how it works for other states, but I myself am going to start looking on the U.S. Census Website for similar cartographic data.

[edit] Image:Chandleraz_logo.gif and Image:Chandleraz_logo.svg

Hello,

These logos are only allowed under fair use, but fair use is not allowed on Commons. Regards, Yann 23:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unofficial maps project

I really like what you have done/are doing with your maps of locations in Arizona. Realizing how much of a chore it can be (the previous incarnation of the city boundary maps in Maricopa County were my creations) I decided to take a little initiative in helping you out.

I have uploaded map files and redone the infoboxes for pretty much all of the cities and places listed for Yavapai County, trying to keep the maps pretty much to the same standards in terms of colors and linestyles that you set with previous maps. I have yet to categorize them all on the Commons, however, I plan to do that shortly.

I do not know how 'active' you are with this project, but I'm happy to continue helping with the remaining counties. Let me know if you're working on anything currently so I don't duplicate your work unecessarily.

Thanks again for the great contributions!! Arkyan 17:51, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Just as a little update. I got a bit overzealous and did up a bunch of maps for La Paz without checking and realizing you'd already uploaded them! I also have the maps for Mohave County finished (they are on my computer at home and can't upload them until later), as well as much of the work done on Navajo and Apache counties. I didn't see anything uploaded for those. I did notice that in your version for La Paz (as well as it looks like most aside from Maricopa) you're drawing in the outlines for the CDP's as well. For consistency's sake I will do the same with the newer maps, though I'll leave Yavapai and Coconino as-is until I can get around to fixing them later so they all are consistent.
I am wondering if you planned to extend this project in to other states as well? Arizona is definitely a good start due to the small number of counties, although if you were to branch out into other states this could turn in to a long project :) Anyway, excellent work on the maps, keep it up! Arkyan • (talk) 21:34, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you! I still have to credit you with the original idea as well as the formatting for the maps, I just ran with the idea :) There is still a little bit of cleaning up to do, particularly a few small unincorporated (non CDP) towns that could at least use "red dot" maps, but I held off on them because the articles themselves were in rotten shape - see Greer, Arizona for an example. As far as continuing on with other states or at least other cities, I plan to cool down a little bit before picking another direction. I am thinking I might consider moving in to neighboring western states like Nevada or New Mexico, as I'm assuming they should be fairly similar in scope, large counties with lots of open space. As you had mentioned with some potential future examples, such as New York City, individual county maps would be a little inappropriate, not to mention an exhausting project. I did like your idea of possibly branching out to hit some of the other major metropolitan areas - some old raster versions exist for major California cities, some in Florida and perhaps elsewhere, but upgrading to SVG maps is a definite good idea. Perhaps it would be possible to check around for other users who have worked on those and similar maps and see if a more broadened method of attack is called for, perhaps even an official project? Either way, I plan to "rest" for a short period before taking on any more maps. Thanks again for the help and input and most of all the inspiration! Arkyan • (talk) 06:56, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
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