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There's plenty to be done, and precious few of us doing it, so good luck.

Mayalld 15:11, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Maps

Congratulations on your maps. You don't say what icons you still need. You never know, someone may create them. :) Oosoom ^Talk to me 19:52, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi there. The icons I could do with are: ugLIFT; ugKRZuy; ugddSTRl; ugSRTbr; ugENDEe. That's for starters. Hmallett 22:59, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I can see that ugLIFT and ugSWING have now been added, so I've updated my templates to reflect these changes so far. Hmallett 08:45, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I've done the wharfs. I see you are having a go at images on Commons yourself. Remember to put a copyright tag in or the image will be deleted! I use public domain for canal icons as it makes them freely available for modification without having to worry about preserving the correct attribution or licence tags. And I should point out that the category for canal icons on Commons spells canal with a lower case c (the category is named incorrectly on Wikipedia). Good luck. Oosoom ^Talk to me 09:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointers. Changes made as needed (I think). Hmallett 09:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I've done the building/pumphouse icons. Yiour requested ugENDEe already exists. Is that what you wanted? Oosoom ^Talk to me 09:52, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

ugENDEe does exist, as you say, but that's a transition from in use canal to not-in use canal. What I thought I needed (for the end of the Montgomery canal) was the same icon as uENDEe, but in green. In fact, there was a wharf at the end, so I can create a wghfKBFg and use that instead. Hmallett 10:27, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

The how to that's on yout user page is a good move. Might vbe worth expanding it to include the BS2 - BS5 templates that are needed for more complex cases. Mayalld 06:46, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I'll expand it once I've figured it out for myself! I've not used those templates yet.

BS2 allows 2 icons side by side, BS3 allows 3 icons side by side (I think you get the picture!) Useful for displaying short branches and the lik. Mayalld 11:47, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Copyright

Hi. I think you may need to pay some attention to the correct use of licencing, eg gwhfKBFg.

When creating a new icon from an existing one it is important to preserve any copyright conditions of the original. If the original has a GFDL licence then you need to preserve that GFDL on every derivative icon, mentioning the original author (or all previous authors) - giving attribution. This is a fundamental principle behind GFDL and no work based on a GFDL original can become public domain (unless you are the absolute creator in which case you could republish as PD).

When I create an original I use PD to make this process easier for others, but if I modify a previous work then I have to copy the original licence if it was not PD and credit the author. This is some extra effort but needs to be done. :) Good luck. Oosoom ^Talk to me 08:57, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. Could you please have a look at and tell me if the modified copyright is in the right format? Thanks. Hmallett 09:40, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

There's nothing wrong with putting yourself in as a joint author. I am not sure whether there is a prescribed form, but this is how I did a similar thing: . Oosoom ^Talk to me 11:01, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

{ {UK-waterway-routemap} }

Hope you don't mind. I changed part of the instructions on your user page to show the correct way to put the maps in the category without putting the articles in as well. :) Oosoom ^Talk to me 10:00, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

No problem - I saw your edit to my templates, worked out why, and was going to change my instructions, but you beat me to it!

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Re: Oswestry

The new co-ordinates point to the corner of Cross Street and Leg Street in the town centre... well, according to Google Maps they do. David (talk) 13:10, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Just checked - the other map services point to the same location. David (talk) 13:12, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

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