Hello Rbrausse! I'm trying your QGIS tutorial (I'm really interesting, even if I already don't have enough arms…). To create Relief and Minimap groups it's okay, but I have a file named All_MAMMALS_OCT2012.shp and I think I guess why QGIS fail to add it How can you keep just one species from this file? Is there another file to upoload, a way to split it? Best regards, Totodu74 (devesar…) 21 janvier 2013 à 17:53 (CET)[répondre]
Give it at try, both shape files worked on my machine. QGIS will be _slow_ when you use a shape file with multiple layers (i.e. species), so using the terrestrial (or marine) subset of the ranges is a Good Idea(tm). Rbrausse (d) 21 janvier 2013 à 18:13 (CET)[répondre]
Oh Good Idea(tm), but I tried another : I loaded the map once, but I "un-ticked" the layer MAMMTERR then saved my project, and the file seems to load quickly now. Now I think I just have to send the query then tick the box. Your tutorial is really good, thanks a lot for your work, and your teaching. Totodu74 (devesar…) 21 janvier 2013 à 20:16 (CET)[répondre]
You're welcome ! (and it would be a shame to ignore the data treasure IUCN gave us with the spatial data archives)
I'm curious about Givet's (French) version of the tutorial he promised/announced some time ago : He's using a different method, combining QGIS and Inkscape for his maps. Rbrausse (d) 21 janvier 2013 à 20:55 (CET)[répondre]
Sorry, I realized it shortly after I made the mistake but wasn't able to correct it as of 3 or 4 edit conflicts in a row. I didn't suppressed your comment on purpose, honestly! rbrausse (d) 9 avril 2013 à 15:14 (CEST)[répondre]
Thanks for your imports ! I'm only checking data, and planed to import later what can be done.
Nothing related to that: do you need some bot help for distribution map? I can easely build you a list of reptiles taxa without distribution map and associate with it the ReptileDB/UICN distribution range.
The only reason was your comment « quelqu'un comprend l'hébreu ? » - this is just another Wikipedia project (JAWP) and 99 % of the important techniques and templates are language independent (though the right-to-left script is driving me crazy....) ;)
And thanks a lot for your offer, but at the moment my family-by-family approach is working fine. If you're willing to shepherd your bot in the direction of map data/article matching: The only reliable source for informations about existing shapes is a dbf included in the ESRI archive. rbrausse (d) 10 avril 2013 à 21:37 (CEST)[répondre]
I think english translation for « c'est de l'hebreu pour moi » is « it is all Greek to me », which was a kind of joke .
haha! In German we use Spanish for this kind of saying: "Das kommt mir spanisch vor" :)
About the map/article mapping: The ESRI archives include a .dbf, described in the metadata document. I think a good way would be pre-filtering for 'PRESENCE' = 1 (IUCN's data is IMO not very accurate and it gets worse for species not known to be extant past 1980) and match the remaining unique 'BINOMIAL' fields against RDB and/or your article base. rbrausse (d) 10 avril 2013 à 22:16 (CEST)[répondre]
Well, that's simple! What data do you need on the output? . The goal is so to generate a list of species that has a "PRESENCE=1" in the DBF file (for reptiles) and that are present in RDB (and so on WP:fr), and if it can help I can add other fields (i.e. the subspecies if mentionned, and/or shape ID…). Just ask Hexasoft (discuter) 11 avril 2013 à 14:16 (CEST)[répondre]
no subspecies for reptiles (at least for now, no idea if IUCN will provide more detailed data in future releases) :)
the other fields except BINOMIAL and PRESENCE are either GIS-specific (SHAPE_*) and of no use in a text-centered view or of unbelievable bad data quality* (e.g. YEAR, CITATION). Sorting according the higher taxas (with Projet:Herpétologie/Classification ReptileDB 2 as framework) would be helpful as it allows to select manageable mapping tasks.
*) excellent example for the shit-in-shit-out mantra of data processing
Hehe. Note that the filtering is very "low": I found 15743 entries in the DBF file, and only 94 are not "PRESENCE = 1". If I sort by binomial name I get 3086 entries, which seems a little "high" as RDB don't have so much species… I will treat the data to have a clearer vision of its content. Hexasoft (discuter) 11 avril 2013 à 21:01 (CEST)[répondre]
I thought the latest release of RDB includes nearly 10000 species? (And one IUCN map for every three species I see in your genera articles feels about right) rbrausse (d) 11 avril 2013 à 21:31 (CEST)[répondre]
wow, this is great! (only 1480 shapes left to process :)) The Science of Discworld IV is a good read. The book even includes the Librarian rbrausse (d) 11 avril 2013 à 22:10 (CEST)[répondre]
I am currently working on Eublepharis macularius. The range map we have for this species for now is pretty bad. As I noticed that you're kind of a big boss for making beautiful distribution maps, could you make a new one for the leopard gecko? It is not listed on the UICN red list but I've uploaded two maps that I illegally took from my books: [2] and [3]. Please let me know if you can do that (if not,never mind!). Thank you! Goodshort (d) 3 juillet 2013 à 00:35 (CEST)[répondre]
hmm, tricky...
freehand drawing is absolutely not my field of experience, but I'll try it. Could you provide me with authors and titles of the "decentralised backup copies" (:P), so I can attribute the distribution source?
The result is in general similar to both maps you provided, but I excluded the uncertain area in Iran (similar to all my maps) and simplified the overall shape of the inland range (both for copyright and credibility reasons).
As soon as I know about the data source I'll upload the beautyresult to Commons.
Sorry, I didn't notice that you had responded. Thank you very much! The two sources I used are :
(fr) Olivier Antonini, Le gecko léopard, Animalia éditions, , 136 p. (ISBN2-915740-78-X), p. 9
(en) Hermann Seufer, Yuri Kaverkin et Andreas Kirschner (éditeur), The Eyelash Geckos, Karlsruhe (Allemagne), Kirschner & Seufer Verlag, , 238 p. (ISBN3-9804207-8-7), p. 111
Hello,
are you still around? (you don't contribute here for a while). I hope you are fine.
A user is writing an article and is looking for a repartition map (and all distribution data is available). Can you do that for us? If not I can build my own, of course, but you are a "professionnal" of the distribution map .
ha! you're too impatient! :P and thanks for the tip - I'll dig out my most polite vocabulary (*ahem*) and beg the admins for an exemption ;) rbrausse (d) 1 octobre 2013 à 21:46 (CEST)[répondre]
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