User:Seth Ilys/Dot Project

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Sometime early in 2004, I made a dot-map (example) showing the location of my hometown: Apex, North Carolina. Then I decided, what the heck, since I've done that and have the graphics program open, why don't I make maps for every town in the county. That afternoon, I did about a third of the state and it didn't make any sense to stop there, so, like Forrest Gump, I just kept on running. Eerily enough, other people started running, too, and before long nearly all of the User:Rambot U.S. census location articles will have maps.

[edit] Remaining (unclaimed) states:

[edit] Status:

North Carolina: begun 19 March 2004, finished 26 March 2004
Alabama: begun 26 March 2004, finished 30 March 2004
Oklahoma: begun 5 May 2004, finished 7 May 2004
Hawaii: begun 10 May 2004, finished 11 May 2004
Iowa: begun 31 March 2004, finished 15 May 2004
Alaska: begun 7 May 2004, finished 13 May 2004
Maryland: begun 15 May 2004, finished 18 May 2004
Utah: begun 19 May 2004, finished 20 May 2004
New Mexico: begun 26 May 2004, finished 3 June 2004
West Virginia: begun 25 May 2004, finished 4 June 2004
Tennessee: begun 8 June 2004, finished 12 June 2004
Texas: begun 12 June 2004, finished 27 August 2004
North Dakota: begun 19 June 2004, finished 21 June 2004
South Dakota: begun 21 June 2004, finished 26 June 2004
Kentucky: begun 30 August 2004, finished 8 September 2004
Wyoming: begun 8 September 2004, finished 15 September 2004
Florida: begun 15 September 2004, finished 22 October 2004
Idaho: begun 25 October 2004, finished 27 October 2004
South Carolina: begun 30 October 2004, finished 18 December 2004
Michigan: begun 1 January 2005, finished 10 February 2005
Southern California: begun 10 February 2005.
Colorado: begun 26 March 2005, finished 6 April 2005
Georgia: begun 8 April 2005, finished 22 April 2005
Montana: begun 27 April 2005, finished May 2005
Virginia: begun 15 May 2005, finished May 2005
Illinois: begun 9 June 2005

And other folks are joining in on the fun, too!

Vermont: completed March 2004 by User:Redjar
Connecticut: begun May 2004 by User:Plutor
Washington: completed May 2004 by User:Bumm13
Nevada: completed May 2004 by User:Bumm13
Missouri: completed June 2004 by User:Catbar
Delaware: completed May 2004 by User:Bumm13
Arizona: completed July 2004 by User:Catbar
Ohio: completed August 2004 by User:Catbar
Louisiana: completed October 2004 by User:Catbar
Oregon: completed November 2004 by User:Bumm13
Wisconsin: completed January 2005 by User:Bumm13
Kansas: completed January 2005 by User:Catbar
Arkansas: completed February 2005 by User:Catbar
Northern California: completed February 2005 by User:Bumm13
Rhode Island: being done by User:SPUI, along with road maps for Rhode Island State Highways - all incorporated cities and towns done, will do more detailed maps of each, including dots for villages, later
Nebraska: completed October 2005 by User:Bumm13
Minnesota: completed November 2005 by User:Catbar
Pennsylvania: started October 2006 by User:Ram-Man: 17 of 64 counties - ~27% completed

[edit] Remaining states with space-filling townships:

Because New England municipalities are "space-filling", dot-maps aren't exactly appropriate for these states

Pennsylvania

I live in Pennsylvania, and townships can for the most part be treated as towns. A dot map would probably be sufficient in most cases. I personally live in Aston, PA, which is a township, but everyone uses the shortened form of the name. Even if a township and the town center proper happen to not be the same, it wouldn't be a problem with the scale that the dot maps are using. — Ram-Man ^{(comment) (talk)} 16:30, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to be working on doing the townships, CDPs, and boroughs of Pennsylvania. -- RM 17:37, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

New York
Massachusetts - Image:MA towns.png is a basemap, if anyone wants to go from there
New Hampshire
Maine

[edit] Towns missing articles:

If you come across a town from a state or county I've completed above which needs a map, just list it below, and I'll make it... umm... eventually.

[edit] Alabama

[edit] Alaska

Tolsona, Alaska

[edit] California

Sea Ranch, California

[edit] Colorado

[edit] Florida

[edit] Georgia

[edit] Hawaii

[edit] Idaho

Atomic City, Idaho

[edit] Illinois

[edit] Iowa

[edit] Kentucky

[edit] Maryland

[edit] Michigan

[edit] Montana

[edit] New Mexico

[edit] North Carolina

[edit] North Dakota

[edit] Oklahoma

[edit] South Carolina

[edit] South Dakota

[edit] Tennessee

[edit] Texas

[edit] Utah

[edit] Virginia

[edit] West Virginia

Pea Ridge, West Virginia

[edit] Wyoming

[edit] See also

Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Requested and orphan maps

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