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SHOW HN2013
157points
51comments
#109of 1,739 in 2013
Top 7%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
1 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 18 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score -0.55.
Execution: 0 for, 12 againstIdea: 0 for, 5 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Great effort and nice work
From 2 comments
Great effort! Unfortunately, you're likely to get a bunch of requests for changes since there are a bunch of places where geo-political boundaries are murky at best. For example,…
xfax on HNNicely done! Minor things, but I was surprised to find Russia in 'Asia' folder. In most cases (sport for example) it's considered Europe.
isalmon on HN
Objections
Map accuracy errors: wrong borders for Austria, India, Rwanda, Virgin Islands and Florida
From 4 comments
Great effort! Unfortunately, you're likely to get a bunch of requests for changes since there are a bunch of places where geo-political boundaries are murky at best. For example,…
xfax on HNThe map for Austria (https://github.com/djaiss/mapsicon/blob/master/europe/at/1024.png) doesn't depict Austria, but its state Carinthia…
bodnerdan on HNAlso this isn't Rwanda: https://github.com/djaiss/mapsicon/blob/master/africa/rw/256.png (can't figure out yet what is actually is...)
rowanseymour on HNThe icon for VI (US Virgin Islands) shows only one of the three islands (St. Thomas). St. John is incorrectly included with VG (British Virgin Islands), and St. Croix appears to…
nandhp on HN
Images are not true maps and not in vector format
From 4 comments
I'm not sure that you know what the word map actually means. This is a free collection of country images, or silhouettes, but only in the loosest possible definition of the term…
nathanb on HNI think if you read all the comments you'll realize why you couldn't sell these. They aren't maps, they are riddled with errors, they are not even in a vector scalable format.
hnriot on HNWhy not vector format?
rkv on HNWhy not vector/SVG?
jeffpersonified on HN
Political boundary and continent choices are contested
From 3 comments
Great effort! Unfortunately, you're likely to get a bunch of requests for changes since there are a bunch of places where geo-political boundaries are murky at best. For example,…
xfax on HNNicely done! Minor things, but I was surprised to find Russia in 'Asia' folder. In most cases (sport for example) it's considered Europe.
isalmon on HNas a chinese, I don't understand why you make China and Taiwan separately.
youknowwhoami on HN
Requests
Provide SVG vector versions
From 3 comments
Why not vector format?
rkv on HNWhy not vector/SVG?
jeffpersonified on HNI prefer SVG because of Inkscape. Hopefully you can find separate states / municipals / counties from the original file I submitted...
jjsz on HN
Fix missing territories such as Alaska, Hawaii and Borneo states
From 3 comments
I don't see Alaska and Hawaii in the namerica / us
humbyvaldes on HNMY only shows peninsula Malaysia - missing the Borneo States...
djfergus on HNThe icon for VI (US Virgin Islands) shows only one of the three islands (St. Thomas). St. John is incorrectly included with VG (British Virgin Islands), and St. Croix appears to…
nandhp on HN
Questions
Why are Taiwan and China shown separately
From 1 comment
as a chinese, I don't understand why you make China and Taiwan separately.
youknowwhoami on HN
Alternatives named
Wikimedia Commons SVG maps by country
From 2 comments
How is this better than existing projects like Wikimedia’s vector maps? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_maps_by_country
Samuel_Michon on HNI prefer my maps in SVG. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_maps_by_country
dc_ploy on HN
Natural Earth data
From 1 comment
Yeah, IMO Natural Earth[0] data is much more valuable, and easy to get into any format one could need. Countries would be covered by the "Admin 0 – Countries" file[1].…
seszett on HN