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Re: Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

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Post by tokai »

MengerSponge wrote: post #47
dylan604 wrote: post #45

What happens if there are multiple cities with the same name. Maybe this is a US specific problem, but there are many states with cities of the same name from another state. As a few examples: Salem, OR and Salem, MA Portland, OR and Portland, ME Springfield, IL and Springfield, MO Dallas, TX and Dallas, GA

Don't even get started on American cities named after world cities: Paris, Munster, London, Toledo, Memphis, Athens,...

Every country has those. There was some that found it very funny when Russia occupied New York last year (or last year again?).

Re: Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

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Post by fat_cantor »

dylan604 wrote: post #45

What happens if there are multiple cities with the same name. Maybe this is a US specific problem, but there are many states with cities of the same name from another state. As a few examples: Salem, OR and Salem, MA Portland, OR and Portland, ME Springfield, IL and Springfield, MO Dallas, TX and Dallas, GA

If you just type "Salem" for the city, it just picks one and goes with it. If you type "Salem, Oregon" vs "Salem, MA", it gives the desired result (at least for the cases I've tried), and then uses your input text as the caption.

Re: Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

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Post by Footprint0521 »

arnavpraneet wrote: post #28

what are the blue dots? (not water bodies i think?)

I was curious about this too and it’s actually a bug— these blue dots are random parks or park features. Most parks are polygons, but less than 5% or them are points from volunteer mappers who didn’t make them polygons and so these stray points seem to slip through and get plotted as the matplotlib default color…

If only I knew this before I printed it out and attached it all together with rasterbator lol

Re: Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

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Post by netsharc »

tokai wrote: post #51
MengerSponge wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't even get started on American cities named after world cities: Paris, Munster, London, Toledo, Memphis, Athens,...

Every country has those. There was some that found it very funny when Russia occupied New York last year (or last year again?).

Even the name "New York" is a reference to an existing city...
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