User talk:Metropolitan

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 01:39, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For your great work creating and updating the File:COVID-19-outbreak-timeline.gif. SirEdimon (talk) 01:41, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

File:COVID-19-outbreak-timeline.gif

Hello. Will you continue updating the animated map of COVID-19? If not, in which program do you update the map? Thank you --Robins7 (talk) 12:45, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ping @Robins7: Unfortunately, this is getting impossible at this stage. Nearly all European countries have confirmed cases, including San Marino, Monaco, Andorra and Vatican City. There's no space left.

The map consists of daily SVG images produced on Inkscape and then compiled as an animated GIF. If anyone wants to give it a try, I'm open to upload sources, however, there are more than 50 SVG files, is there any way to post a zip file on Wikipedia? Metropolitan (talk) 11:38, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

How about only updating the shade of colour of the less infected countries, but still focusing on the main ones (PRC, Japan, Italy, South Korea)? Thank you for your input! Nadzik (talk) 14:45, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ping @Metropolitan: I agree, that would be cool or we could also have a key of the number counts by the side of the map, say where Hawaii is. The map would be certainly hugely helpful, and we very much value your input!! Hope you continue to update it, mate. That'd be super! Thanks so much. Ericgyuminchoi (talk) 02:04, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

File:COVID-19-outbreak-timeline.gif (2): per capita

Thanks for the timeline gif! Very nice work.

Any chance it could be adapted to "per capita"? I know, media likes to impress us with figures showing that countries like the US or India are hugely affected, but obviously more interesting would be infection rate in proportion to population size. Of course that brings up the question if countries or regions should be looked at (e.g., China was never a hotspot, although Wuhan was)... but I guess that would be too difficult to manage.

[If you should not be interested in working with the file anymore--do you know if anyone else is "semi-officially" now? I know the mentioned file does not see much work these days, but not sure if there is some derivative somewhere, with more activity??]

Thanks a lot in advance, Ibn Battuta (talk) 06:59, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I doubt it would be meaningful as the timeline only pictures the two first months of the pandemic in January and February 2020, back when there were still only a handful of cases. I believe other contributors worked on up-to-date per capita maps since then (see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_by_country_and_territory). Cheers. Metropolitan (talk) 11:44, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - yes, that was what I was looking for. I hadn't realized it already existed (although I liked the animated approach ;-)). Cheers, Ibn Battuta (talk) 21:48, 1 June 2021 (UTC) 21:48, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]