User talk:Scotthatton

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Opening a hornets' nest, here is a talk page should anybody require one...

Contents 1 Napolitano Award 2 Clapham Junction railway station 3 Igloolik, Nunavut & the Template:Geolinks-cityscale 4 WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology 5 Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can 6 Baylen Leonard 7 Yangon 8 Removal of talk page comments made by others 9 Re:Cape Cross

[edit] Napolitano Award

Hello. I'll restore the article if you can link me to the original article on whatever hosting you have available, in addition to the copyright disclaimer, license under which you release it, or release into public domain. Thank you, --Kuzaar^-T-C- 13:44, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Clapham Junction railway station

Scott, you've just changed the multimap link in the above page to {{Geolinks-cityscale|51.4646|-0.1705}}. Could you help a little: the terraserver aerial photo sucks in compariuson with the multimap version. Are you familiar enough with the template you;ve just pasted in, to make changes to it to give us back the multimap photo (and perhaps GoogleMaps too?). thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

Thanks for the re-work you did on Clapham Junction. I guess there may be an argument - if I understand your comments correctly - for us implementing a scale 8 as well as scale 15 template for terraserver, applying the 8 only where we can. But to my shame I've not got my head around template that inherit parameters, so will probably stick to stealing images from project gutenberg. Good that we have these multiple-link templates such as Geolinks-cityscale, though. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

[edit] Igloolik, Nunavut & the Template:Geolinks-cityscale

I saw that you had added the template and was thinking to use it in some of the other Northern communities. I wondered if you could redo & rename the template to give it a scale of 1:30000 the same as for airports. This would give a good satellite image to most places in the north. I noticed that there is a Geolinks-Canada-townscale template but it is 1:1000 and the satellite image has not been updated for all of the northern communities. As an example Igloolik has a new image but Cambridge Bay is still the older blurry image. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:25, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

OK. All of this is concerned more with the satellite images than the maps. If you go back to Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Cambridge Bay Airport, Igloolik, Nunavut and Igloolik Airport. If you click first on the coordinates in the infobox for Igloolik Airport the resulting map source page is set at a scale of 1:30000. Which actually shows the entire airport and town with a clear image, while the Cambridge Bay Airport is visible but fuzzy.

Now, if you click on the first link ("Maps and aerial photos") in Igloolik and Cambridge Bay the scale shown is 1:300000 on the Igloolik map sources page. The resulting satellite image seems to me to be to far out and I think would look better at 1:30000.

On the next line ("Mapping from Multimap or GlobalGuide or Google Maps") the Multimap looks silly but nothing can be done about that. Both the GlobalGuide and Google Maps look fine and give a good satellite image. The "Aerial image from TerraServer" also gives a really good idea as to the position of the community in its general area.

I didn't see this the other day but the "Satellite image from WikiMapia" is zoomed too far in. With Igloolik you get a street level picture but with Cambridge Bay you actually have to zoom out 2 or 3 times to get an image. This is because Google has redone some of the images in the north but not all.

So what I am asking is would it be possible to redo the template, calling it for example "Template:Geolinks-villagescale", with the first link and the last link at a different scale. I tried myself but couldn't figure out how the scale in the template was arrived at. This would work for all communities in Northern Canada and probably for other villages in other parts of the world. It's not something that needs doing in a big rush as viewers can zoom in and out as required but I just thought it would look better. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:10, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology

Since you are interested in flags and emblems I would like to inform you that the WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology has just been created. Why not take a look? I hope you can join. Inge 20:32, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can

[edit] Baylen Leonard

Hi Scotthatton, sorry for causing inconvenience because of deletion of the article. But half-liner articles are not acceptable on Wikipedia. So, I had to delete the article according to speedy deletion criteria. Regards, Shyam ^(T/C) 15:17, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yangon

Your edit of geo coordinates has disappeared because the page was suffering from vandalism and I had to revert to yesterday's version. I didn't want to fiddle with your template but please feel free to put it back again! Andrew Dalby 14:52, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of talk page comments made by others

Hello, it may not have been your intention, but you removed a comment made by another user (me actually) whilst doing this edit. Please be more careful in future not to overwrite any existing comments on somebody else's talk page. Thanks. :) Bubba hotep 14:04, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Cape Cross

Hi Scott - you wrote: Hi Grutness. I noticed you flagged my new Cape Cross article as lacking references. I can't really see how I could add any! It is that far from Hentiesbaai and it really does have a seal colony. I saw it myself!

'twasn't me! All I did was change {{stub}} to the more accurate {{Namibia-geo-stub}}. The cleanup tag was added by User:Jeepday. As to finding references, googling turns up a few possibilities! Grutness...wha? 22:41, 5 March 2007 (UTC)