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Hi, I noticed you updated a few of my presidential election maps with new color schemes and a key. I want to say thank you, as they look much better now! Keep up the good work! Best, Incognito melon (talk) 19:05, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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Hi, I saw your awesome election graphics and wanted to ask you a question about it. I am currently working on building a dataset for Province (ADM1) level national elections results. (This is in the context of helping my professor investigate the influence of foreign aid on election results of the governing party in the receiving country). I was just working on getting the provincial election results of Algeria and from what I could tell there is only official pdf's in arabic with the election results on a province level. So I was wondering if you transcribed those pdf's into a database or if you used some other source for your graphs. I would be so thankful for a response. C. Invidiae4 (talk) 15:01, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

I just took pictures of the pdfs tables on my computer with my phone using the GoogleTranslate app. Wowzers122 (talk) 04:53, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

County maps

Hi, I am wondering how you were able to combine the shapes (paths) for the presidential election map without altering other borders. Whenever I try to combine paths, especially for Maine (which simply is much more detailed than the rest of the states), Inkscape automatically deletes some and it shifts the shape into being altered. And I wonder how you might select multiple paths at the same time when grouped. I used to be able to do this, but I cannot do it now. I know you can do it while ungrouped, but it only makes all the shapes go awry.

Thanks in advance Illustriousdudeidk (talk) 03:32, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

@Illustriousdudeidk: I just do path -> union on my selected shapes. The only time I have problems doing this is when multiple shapes are stacked on each other, like in South Carolina and Louisiana. Wowzers122 (talk) 13:55, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

I understand, but in the case of Maine, there is so many paths it takes forever to combine them one by one. It really is absurd how insanely detailed Maine's islands are compared to the other states. Did you ungroup them before path->union by any chance?

I used to be able to just use a mouse and hold and expand and it'd automatically select all paths within the box, but now I can't do it. Illustriousdudeidk (talk) 13:53, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

@Illustriousdudeidk: Which map are you talking about? I've never had this problem, idk what to tell you. The files I get from the atlas already have the islands unionized with their mainland county. There shouldn't be more paths than there are counties. Sounds like the paths were fractured. A workaround would maybe downloading the state files, changing to the same projection, and inserting Maine into the county map. Wowzers122 (talk) 14:05, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

I used QGIS to put it on the map and then put it onto Inkscape. For some reason, none of the counties are unionized and are all individual shapefiles if they have any separate pieces. Did you export as all vectors or simplified geometries? Illustriousdudeidk (talk) 15:08, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

@Illustriousdudeidk: Vector Wowzers122 (talk) 15:15, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure if there is a setting that I clicked on QGIS where it breaks it down by each polygon. I'm pretty sure I didn't since all my other projects with exception of the congressional district maps were all in one path.

Every single island is it's own path when I export as svg from QGIS. Illustriousdudeidk (talk) 15:34, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

I downloaded the full file from the atlas. Illustriousdudeidk (talk) 16:04, 10 June 2025 (UTC)