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Michigan ancestry map[edit]

Much better! Thanks - JohnInDC (talk) 21:04, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I took a look at your user page - nice collection. Allow me to offer that some of your other maps would be similarly improved by confining portrayals of obviously land-based characteristics to land. Absent some clear indication from the Census Bureau, for example, that MSAs are intended to include substantial adjacent (and uninhabited) water area, I think the western Michigan MSA map should confine the MSAs to land. JohnInDC (talk) 13:50, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I understand your concern, but the Census Bureau does seem to make it clear that the MSAs include the water area. At the links below, the area of the Holland-Grand Haven MSA is stated as 1632.0 square miles, which includes the Great Lakes water area. Similarly, the area of the Muskegon-Norton Shores MSA is stated as 1459.3 square miles.

http://www.2010census.biz/compendia/smadb/TableE-13.pdf

http://www.census.gov/compendia/smadb/TableB-01.xls Phizzy (talk) 14:58, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've updated the Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland CSA map. The borders are still defined out into Lake Michigan, but I've only highlighted the land in red. Does that look better? Phizzy (talk) 15:01, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good grief, you're right. The MSA is *intended* to extend into the water. All I can say to that is, it looks screwy.

Hey, how about if you lighten the red shade over the lake area, so that the land portion is red and the water portion is more pinkish / translucent? That would convey that 1) the MSA does literally include the water area (which strikes me BTW as totally stupid given what an MSA is supposed to reflect) but 2) you recognize that water is not the same as land. It also avoids the visual problem of making the state look like it actually *does* extend into the water there.

I liked the revised version - that little change makes it look like some care went into it. Funny how a subtle thing can make a difference like that. JohnInDC (talk) 15:12, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:MichiganIndianTribes.svg[edit]

Please see the talk page for serious concerns raised about this map. Rmhermen (talk) 19:04, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:MichiganIndianReservations.svg[edit]

See Image talk:MichiganIndianReservations.svg. Note: if using a GIS product, try using the na99_d00.shp available through the US Census Bureau. It will have all of the IRs and most of the TDSAs. CJLippert (talk) 14:19, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Where to get coverage files?[edit]

Where can I get GIS shapefile coverage files showing Michigan's State and County boundaries across the Great Lakes, at a resolution range of 12K to 75K? I went to Michigan's Geographic Data Library (MiGDL) and found all sorts of coverages, but not the boundary coverages I was looking for. Point me in the right direction. Thanks. CJLippert (talk) 01:20, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

US-Canada border maps[edit]

Hello! I left a suggestion at Image talk:US-Canada-Border-Provinces.svg. Since you're the image author, I thought you might like to check on it. Amorim Parga (talk) 02:55, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

hello, my fellow cybercitizen of the michigan internet protocol region[edit]

my e-mail is on g-mail, and is yosef.garibaldi.

thanks for the maps, i hereby award you with the michigan region cartographer of merit digital merit decoration. i'll hear from you later, perhaps. any tips or links on how to best make a text-based game would be appreciated. (all i have now is a text editor made of Turing code -- i have learned basic network theory, and am planning on using an array with 515 elements for the first level, the array data will point to the possible array elements, and the keyboard and a text-based mouse cursor will add more interactivity to the ascii graphics and radar.) have a happy year 5769. (since the events of the Sefer Yetzirah, of course) Yosef.garibaldi (talk) 22:08, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikilink Barnstar[edit]

		The Wikilink Barnstar
		To Phizzy: the PRISMATIC REFRACTOR OF THE LIGHT, for a conspicuous diligent and worthwhile contribution to Wikipedia and its List of lighthouses in the United States by height‎, and for thereby bringing together many widespread and missing links, lights and pertinent information, particularly on our Michigan lights. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 01:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC) Stan[reply]

Sorry for the late response, but thank you very much! Phizzy talk 02:38, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lighthouses[edit]

Thanks for your fixes to Lighthouses in the United States. In the future, would you please add an WP:edit summary so other editors can more easily figure out what you're doing? Thanks. —EncMstr (talk) 19:06, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Most Populous Village[edit]

Hey, I noticed you were able to answer my question. Exactly how does one use the factfinder so that you can search specifically for Michigan populations ranked by villages, incoporated cities, and townships? --Criticalthinker (talk) 09:54, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe you can use the factfinder in that fashion. I download the full set of vilages, cities, and townships (csv file) from census.gov and sorted it out myself. Phizzy (talk) 18:09, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Misleading graph`[edit]

Hi,

File:Alaska-Size.png is misleading because the flat projection exaggerates the size of Alaska and makes it seem much larger than it is when compared to the US. Could you redo the superimposition using a proper projection? Thanks - Tempshill (talk) 17:38, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is pretty accurate. Compare to the maps at National Park Service website...

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/dena/images/map1.jpg

...the U.S. Marshals Service website...

http://www.usmarshals.gov/district/ak/images/alaska-small.gif

...the U.S. Forest Service website...

http://www.fs.fed.us/r10/ro/ak_overview/trivia/map.gif

...and one prepared by the National Geographic Society...

http://www.flyalaska.net/ak_on_us.jpg Phizzy (talk) 18:38, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ArtPrize[edit]

Hello. I re-started ArtPrize. Whoever deleted it listed it as "not yet notable", arguably true as the exhibit has not started yet. To keep it from being deleted again, I added a New York Times and Chicago Tribune citation to establish "notablity'. I could not find what you originally wrote, so except for the category you added, I did this over from scratch. If you go, please put in a vote for the cast iron armillary sphere! Pustelnik (talk) 20:22, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your recent contribution. Pustelnik (talk) 17:47, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

National Forests Map[edit]

Fixed...terribly sorry about the errors. How's this?

--Connormah (talk) 23:42, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good. Thanks! Phizzy

14:50, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Michigan city population list[edit]

I'm not sure you know, but since Detroit successfully challenged the Census bureau for the 2006 municipal population numbers, what the Census did was simply 'shift' the population from other municipalities in Wayne County to Detroit. So, after 2006, the estimates for anything in Wayne County but Detroit are completely worthless. I just thought I'd give you a heads-up, on this. Perhaps, you can add a note to the page making note of this, as I'm sure people would be shocked to see the huge and unusual drops in population for many of Wayne County's suburbs. --Criticalthinker (talk) 00:49, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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File:USA-Lake-Effect-Snow-Areas.svg[edit]

Hi,

This is a nice diagram but it only is about the US part of the Great lakes Snow Belt. Could you produce a total image, including the Canadian part east of the Huron and Superior lakes? Pierre cb (talk) 04:49, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Forget about this request. I did one myself. Pierre cb (talk) 19:19, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cato June[edit]

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Distinguishing Land from Water[edit]

In the Michigan CBSA maps, you drew a border between the land and water and highlighted them with different color. Where did you get the data that defines the land boundary? I could only get "state legal boundaries (which include the water)" from the census shape files. Thanks. 75.183.96.242 (talk) 02:12, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Customized signatures[edit]

Hello Phizzy,

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Would it be possible please that you review your signature and remove any images that are contained with them. Much regards, Wesley Mouse 00:33, 3 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lake Michigan–Huron[edit]

In case you're interested, there's a POV warrior disrupting the article with spurious tags, since he hasn't been able to get it deleted. — kwami (talk) 18:48, 9 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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USA Lake Effect Snow Areas map[edit]

Could you please revise the Lake Effect Snow Areas map to include Berrian County, MI and Northwestern Indiana? These areas routinely get accumulating lake effect snow whenever the wind is from the NNW or straight North, extending measurable snow well into Jasper and Pulaski counties in Indiana in the latter case. When the wind is from the NNW, it is not uncommon to have heavy accumulations and whiteout conditions in the triangular area formed by Michigan City, South Bend/Elkhart, and Benton Harbor/St. Joseph. (Feel free to fact check archived snow accumulation data) Hagaland (talk) 17:06, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Call for presentations for WCNA 2022 and Mapping USA[edit]

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