User talk:Citynoise

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[edit] Feel like helping?

Hey, I'm nearing completion of the Yavapai people article (it's in my sandbox right now), and would really like a map showing preconquest territory. A book I have has one, but I presume it's copyrighted. So, if you could either replicate it somehow, or even tell me an easy way to do that, it would be MUCH appreciated. Cheers! Murderbike 22:31, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Cool! I don't have access to the book anymore, but I'm gonna try to get a copy of it, and when I do, I'll scan it and send it to ya somehow. Thanks for the response! Murderbike 21:26, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Major endorheic basins

The two maps Image:Ocean drainage.png and Image:Major endorheric basins.png are really great maps, I would like to have an image of the basin in Arabia in large resolution, or maybe the map in SVG.

I am building a theory that the story of Noah probably happened in that basin, that way it would make more sense! The basin would get filled up with 40 days of rain (in a way that Mesopotamia could never do) and building an Ark there is even more remarkable than on the shores of two great rivers. --DelftUser 14:48, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Boston area income.gif

It says this map is copyright 2006 with no sign whatsoever of CC-BY-2.0. Can you explain? gren グレン 01:58, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Ah, okay. You had put "MUCH larger version of this" which led me to believe it was the same exact map just larger. I was going to convert the TIFF to a reasonable size and upload it but I didn't think it was under a free license. I have updated the image page to hopefully make it more clear.
Could you possibly upload a version where the key is actually readable? I can't even tell what the income levels are being represented. gren グレン 03:21, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of world's largest domes

Hello. I am pretty pissed by your amateurish changes. Who do think you are? Chainsaw citynoise? You cut out half of the contents and mutilated the other half. In case, you do not know, I am the one who devised and started the page, and believe me it took me quite some time to gather the material and order it in a sensible matter. So, you better make a careful case of what you are doing here, or otherwise I see no choice other than to revert your mutilations. Best wishes Gun Powder Ma 11:58, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Added your name to the Cartographers's list

I've added your name to Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Cartographers. --DelftUser 20:08, 15 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Missed this heading the 1st time around

For the "Indian stream map" 68.39.174.238 13:19, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
For the "Indian stream map" 68.39.174.238 13:19, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Non-Hispanic White Map Request

Citynoise, do you think a Non-Hispanic White population map would be more representative of the "White American" population? A vast majority of Hispanics identify as "White" for the census, so it might be good to tease out this group if you are going to have a "Hispanic" population map. Let me know what you think. --Bfraga 18:43, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I'm thinking a Non-Hispanic White map would be pretty easy to create. I do a lot of work with the census (particulary census 2000), and almost all figures given down to the "place" level include non-hispanic white as distinct (now, non-white hispanic would be much more difficult, as would non-hispanic black, etc) since it is quite clear that this statistic is useful for many purposes, including civil rights legislation. In 1990, when "Hispanic" was distinguished as an "ethnic group", they did something similary, albeit less widespread. In 1980, the first time "Hispanic" was used as a category, the non-hispanic white population was not disaggregated, making almost all of those figures extremely difficult to analyze, forcing a person to look at the breakdown of the self-reported race of those who marked "Hispanic", then subtracting those who mark "white". I'm not absolutely sure where you're getting tract data broken down by race (I'd actually like to know for my own research), but I'm thinking it's probably there. Who knows though, the race/ethnicity seperation can be extremely cumbersome for particular ethnic groups. --Bfraga 06:27, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
EDIT: I just checked American FactFinder, and found that you can actually see the non-hispanic population broken down by race right down to the census tract level. See what you think. --Bfraga 06:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

That "Geolytics" package sounds interesting. Do you think Stanford has a partnership with the company as well?

In regards to the "White American" question, the reason for using non-hispanic white as an indication of "White" america is because for most civil rights purposes in order to designate a segment of the population which has historically been discriminated against as a "non-white" group. For example, when you use the map you currently have, Mexican-Americans are included with "Whites." This group, as an example, has been singled out in the southwest for decades as an inferior "ethnic" group (or even racial group, most famously in the 1930 census, where Mexican was a race along with White, Negro, Indian, Hindu, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese). This would seem to imply that some believed "White" to be a superior ethnic group. However, the census calls "White" a racial group. Although it is interesting to see how many "Hispanics" identify as "White", this is really beside the point of most uses of census data related to the Hispanic population. Indeed, something like 48% of Hispanics identify racially as "White", and about 42% identify racially as "Hispanic" by selecting "Other" as their racial group and then writing in a Hispanic national origin or pan-ethnic label. I guess in the end it's up to you. Most of the work done regarding modern demographics (post-1990 census) uses non-Hispanic White figures instead of "White" figures. My opinion is that it's misleading to say "White" without stating that it includes Hispanic whites, simply because that accounts for something like 6-7% of all of those who identify as White. Ah, long comment, I apologize. Let me know what you think. --Bfraga 06:57, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] STANDING OVATION

The map of Indian Stream is the prettiest thing EVER!! Great work. jengod 03:36, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gini graph

Nice picture! Thanks for the contribution. Afelton 23:41, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

How did you find/calculate the US Gini previous to 1967, when the US Census Bureau first published the stat? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.42.174.215 (talk) 19:24, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

I used data from the World Bank. I have a copy of the raw data which I’m happy to share if you’d like, but since you didn’t sign your comment I can’t contact you.. alas! Citynoise (talk) 19:34, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kudos, and map request

Hello Citynoise. Saw your map of The Republic of Indian River. Excellent job! Minor suggestions: (1) could the lines of the British and American claims be overlaid, or placed on a separate mini-map, to give historical context. (2) Could a couple of present-day towns/villages be included, to give context for modern-day readers. These could include Colebrook (sp?) NH, something in VT and ME, and something in QC. Chartierville, La Patrie and maybe Lac Mégantic and Armstrong spring to mind. Are there any present-day villages actually in the Indian river area? Having driven through the area, all I remember is a state park (and a herd of moose in the road!).

Now, for the request. I have recently added map requests for the defunct Republic of Madawaska, that I think would be up your alley. I have found some historical maps showing the area, but as the Republic was never a formal entity, the area the so-called Republic covered is somewhat vague. Certainly it included present-day Edmundston NB, and Madawaska ME, and probably most or all of the Madawaska River basin. I have some historical maps of the area, if that would help, but am not much of a cartographer myself. Let me know if these would help, and I'll upload them into the Commons. Thanks, and feel free to contact me on my talk page. Esseh 21:50, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your maps

I am very impressed with your maps. Would you tell me the type of program you used to make them?

[edit] Image:Boston area income.gif listed for deletion

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[edit] Image:Geoid height red blue.png

That's an interesting map. Which meridian is it centered on? Eyeballing it, it looks to me likes it's a little east of 0°, but I could be mistaken. And what is the projection used? I'm also interested in where you got your data and how you made the map. Thanks. --Kbh3rdtalk 17:38, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Image:Boston T undistorted.gif

I have tagged Image:Boston T undistorted.gif for deletion since it is a poorer quality version of your image Image:MBTA Boston subway map.png. Hope you don't mind. Dread Pirate Westley•Aargh 15:18, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Income donut maps

Hi, I've noticed your income donut maps and was wondering if you could grant permission for use of your Detroit map. Thanks.--Loodog 01:03, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jefferson Territory map

Hi, thanks for the map. Is it supposed to go that far north? It has part of Washington territory. And why is there an exclamation point? --AW (talk) 21:22, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. I think you went too far north though, it says "north to the south line of Nebraska and north line of Kansas" but you went a bit past that, into Nebraska. --AW (talk) 20:13, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
I think it might go too far west too, it says "thence along said line between Utah and Kansas territories, to where said line strikes New Mexico" too. --AW (talk) 20:14, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Here's what I think it should look like, following the directions in the Wikipedia article [1] --AW (talk) 20:18, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh, yeah, you're right! Didn't read far enough. --AW (talk) 20:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Caspian Sea

Hi Citynoise,

The ocean article does say that "Geologically, an ocean is an area of oceanic crust covered by water. ... From this perspective, there are three oceans today: the World Ocean and the Caspian and Black Seas". The Aral Sea is a lake geologically because it is a continental depression filled with water, which is quite different from the Caspian, which is a remnant of the world ocean which got isolated when Africa collided with Eurasia. Its twin, the Black Sea, was not connected to the World Sea until 7000 (?) years ago (the connection, by the way, is over land), and over the past few million years the Mediterranean Sea was also sealed off at the Straights of Gibraltar a couple times. Sometimes people describe them as being giant lakes at those times, but I don't know if they mean this seriously, or if it's poetic license for a lay audience. (The Mediterranean is sometimes poetically called a lake today, and more often people have spoken of saline lakes on the ocean floor as the Mediterranean dried up.) Analogously, the Atlantic Ocean has been called the Great Lake, with Europe and America being on opposite shores. The Caspian is called an inland sea (ocean sea vs. inland sea), but almost never a "lake". If we take the definition of a lake being a body of water surrounded by land literally, then the world ocean would also be a lake, since it is bounded on all sides by land. (Mathematically/topologically, there is no difference between the world ocean and the Caspian.) Of course, that's not what people mean when they say that, but it does show how slippery definitions can be. It's kind of like arguing whether Pluto is a planet.

The geological definition is less ambiguous than most. I left the Caspian in the Lakes by Area article for comparison, or for those who want it to be a lake; maybe we could do something similar for the Lakes by Volume article? kwami (talk) 00:23, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tropical cyclones 1945 2006.png

Very nice picture. :) The only problem I can see with it is that it is very hard to distinguish between stronger storms (Categories 3, 4 and 5 in the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale) because they are all similar shades of red. In order to get around that, we developed a color scale for use in Wikipedia, and we have it on Template talk:Storm colour. Would you mind reuploading the pic using that scale, to see if it is easier to distinguish between different storm intensities? Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 19:34, 15 March 2008 (UTC)