User:Rarelibra

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This user comes from the United States of America. This user is a Sergeant First Class in The United States Army. 25 This user has set foot in 25 countries of the world. This user has created 500+ maps for Wikipedia This user has a page on Wikimedia Commons. This user is a Wikipedian cartographer This user is a Freemason. Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit This user is an alumni of Delta Chi ΔΧ This user is an alumni of Theta Tau ΘΤ Warning to Vandals: This user is armed with VandalProof. This user is interested in maps. en This user is a native speaker of English. es-3 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español. pl-2 Ten użytkownik posługuje się językiem polskim na poziomie średniozaawansowanym. W This user is a Wisconsin Badger. UIUC This user is or was a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign MBA This user is an MBA student. LFG This user spends entirely too much time playing Guild Wars. This user is of German ancestry. This user is of English ancestry. This user is a member of WikiProject Africa. This user is a member of WikiProject Turkey. This user is a member of the WikiProject Norway.

Click HERE to see the maps I have created for Wikipedia

Contents 1 About Me 1.1 Awards 2 Travels 3 Current Projects 4 Notable Contributions 5 Undeniable Facts

[edit] About Me

I became wikified in December, 2005.

I am a cartographer by trade, and I am always interested in maps - seeing them, creating them, etc. If anyone ever needs assistance in creating or locating a map, simply send me an email via Wiki (or leave a note on the discussion page) and I will be more than willing to help. I currently work as a GIS Manager for an international telecommunications company. In addition, I am also a volunteer GIS Technician for the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group, focusing on editing the Second Administrative Level Boundaries (SALB) for various parts of the world.

I am a "career military" person. I have spent 20 years serving with the military, including 8 years in the United States Marine Corps and 12 years in the United States Army - Reserve and National Guard. I have deployed a total of 4 times throughout my career to various places around the globe.

[edit] Awards

• "Best Cartographic Product", 1998 Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Conference, San Francisco, California
• 2nd Place, 2002 MapInfo MapWorld Conference, San Diego, California
• "Map of the Week", Directions Magazine in April, 2003

		The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
		For your many maps, I award you with this Barnstar OrbitOne [Talk

		The Original Barnstar
		For your hard and amazing work to supply maps to Turkey articles Thank you on behalf of WikiProject Turkey! Baristarim 19:34, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

		The Mapmaker's Star
		For consistently adding more and more administrative-level maps that are high quality for Wikipedia 130.126.146.133 21:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Travels

• Countries I have visited:
  

(including and )

• Countries I am visiting in the near future:
  

 (Apr 2008)   (Sep 2008),    (Jun 2009),  (Jun 2010)

• Countries I would like to visit in the future:
  

• I wish to one day

Walk on the Great Wall of China (planned - in 2008)

Ride the Trans-Siberian Express (planned - in 2009)

Visit Iguassu Falls

Explore Macchu Picchu

Visit the Taj Mahal

Tour the fjords of Norway

Meditate at the Holy Land

Go fishing in Alaska

Visit the Berber culture in Morocco

Go on safari in the Serengeti

Bungee jump off of the bridge near Victoria Falls

Take a walk along the Skeleton Coast in Namibia

Go hiking and have a Forst beer with Icsunonove in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol

• Favorite places

Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic

Krakow, Poland

Copenhagen, Denmark

Barcelona, Spain

Munich, Germany

Paris, France

[edit] Current Projects

I specialize in working on administrative-level mapping for a variety of countries throughout the world. I have uploaded a photo (seen on the right) of the database I am working on (and updating on a regular basis). If you wish to contribute to this, let me know!

• I finally finished a custom map of the districts of Adygea for User:Ezhiki. Check it out! I am always willing to do this kind of work for anyone.

Current working on:

• Russia - 3rd level raions (districts) for all of the various okrugs, krais, oblasts, and republics.
• Indonesia - 2nd level regencies (kabupaten) and municipalities (kotamadya), and 3rd level sub-districts (kecamtan) - administrative boundaries, maps to appear soon
  

• Huge project to create maps for the arrondissements (329 total) and cantons (3,879 total) of France.

• Creating maps for:

1. Territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2. Districts of Somalia
3. Municipalities of Angola
4. Municipalities of Zimbabwe
5. Communes of Burundi
6. Collines of Burundi
7. Communes of Niger
8. Counties of Uganda

• Add more maps to Districts of Tanzania if they are not finished

• Also - please note - the digital information is always available to those in need of it - simply contact me to arrange something. And whenever possible - if you have digital copies of a layer/level that I am in need of, I would always appreciate it if I can add it to my database! :) Rarelibra 00:44, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notable Contributions

Article pages created:

Arrondissements of Niger Arrondissements of Senegal Cercles of Mali Collines of Burundi Communes of Benin Communes of Burundi Communes of Niger Counties of Uganda Departments of Burkina Faso Departments of Mauritania Districts of Ghana Districts of Nepal Districts of the Republic of the Congo Districts of Rwanda Districts of Somalia Districts of Sri Lanka Districts of The Gambia

Districts of Turkey Districts and sub-districts of the U.S. Virgin Islands Districts of Zimbabwe Divisions of Cameroon Limet Municipalities of Angola Mukims of Brunei Nahias of Jordan Operation Cajun Fury Prefectures of Togo Regions of Nepal Regions of Turkey Resorts of Suriname Sectors of Guinea-Bissau Somon of Mongolia Sub-districts of Botswana Sub-Prefectures of the Central African Republic Territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

I am also constantly contributing to the Atlas.

[edit] Undeniable Facts

• Bozcaada is "Bozcaada", not "Tenedos"
• Gökçeada is "Gökçeada", not "Imbros"
• Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol is "Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tyrol", not "Trentino-South Tyrol"
• Province of Bozen-South Tyrol is "Province of Bozen-South Tyrol", not "South Tyrol"
• Lake Skadar is "Lake Skadar", not "Lake Scutari"

The proper names are the ones used by such entities as the formal governments by which they are assigned, the United Nations, and other official sources. The latter names have to do with popularity contest and failure to abide by cultural awareness.