Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Map of Europe, 1921.jpg

Voting period ends on 1 May 2009 at 18:59:31
Map of Europe in 1923

 Comment Although Bacon died in 1921, the map shows the borders of 1923-(1929)-1935, so I will have to change the name at the end of this vote. --Alex:D (talk) 11:44, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Support A fine map of Europe after WWI drawn by G. W. Bacon. -- Alex:D (talk) 18:59, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Support without hesitation --Zakharii 19:30, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Support --Dmitry A. Mottl (talk) 19:49, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Support Speaking as an American whose commonwealth's boundaries have not been redrawn since a minor reshuffling in 1785 (NY ceded Erie County to PA, PA ceded all other land north of 42N to New York), it's fascinating to see the extreme extent to which national boundaries have been drawn and redrawn over the course of the last century in Europe, and how so many nations like Moldova, Belarus, and Slovenia (to name a random few) simply did not exist in the not-so-distant past. Thanks to my daily spaced repetition memorization sessions, I have memorized all of the modern nations and capitals of Europe, so the differences here are fairly easy for me to spot. Even where new nations have not been created, there are still noticeable discrepancies between national boundaries—like the bite Russia took out of Finland during the Winter War still belongs to Finland on this map. Mesmerizing stuff. —Notyourbroom (talk) 20:05, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Support -- MJJR (talk) 21:03, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Oppose - it is a .jpg map and therefore not very precise or easy to change for translation.--Avala (talk) 22:01, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
    •  Info - Please reconsider your opinion, this is an old map! -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 22:40, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Support - Gorgeous! -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 22:44, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Support highly detailed, great quality (JPG is OK because it is a scan, not a new work) --ianaré (talk) 15:25, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Oppose I agree with Avala. For an old work it's not so great, and new work in SVG would be so much more useful. Samulili (talk) 19:10, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
    •  Comment -- !!!  :(( -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 20:25, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
    •  Comment I respect everybody's opinion, but since opinions are formed according to previous experiences I should make a comment. First of all, I would like you to compare this map with several others from the same period. Bacon's map is not just a political one, with borders, rivers and cities, but also a form of art, one of the most beautiful and representative works of cartography of its time. I didn't propose this image solely for its informational value, but also for these other particularities. Note its "warm", harmonious colors, discrete relief hachures and those little details that makes this map special: steamship routes (historically significant) and time zones. I know many would like a dull, "cold" png map - which, no doubt, is preferable in some ways, and can be correct to the millimeter -, but I wouldn't vote for it to become a featured picture though: it's too common and impersonal. Maps these days aren't what they used to be. --Alex:D (talk) 21:28, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
    •  Comment I guess I'm biased... I own a number of books of maps (including this excellent one)... but I don't look at historical maps as being "useful." If I want "useful," I'll type a few words into Google. Maps are extremely complicated works of art. They represent the pinnacle of our quest to understand the world—to pare the enormity of the universe down to a whisper of paper—and may only arise through the cooperation of many arts and disciplines. The precision of the astrolabe and compass, the wanderlust of pathfinders far from home, the ambitions of the global-minded, and the tireless passions of artists all mesh together in one harmonious product. That is why this map—and others like it—deserve to be featured. —Notyourbroom (talk) 01:42, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Support--Mbz1 (talk) 19:46, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Support I do not understand the opposes, but I guess that holds true for some of mine too.
    I support, cause I like the details and it is an old one of countries and borders of yore. Lycaon (talk) 05:35, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Support --Lošmi (talk) 09:15, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Support /Daniel78 (talk) 20:32, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Support --Aqwis (talk) 20:26, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Support -- as re: some of the above objections: it's not just useful as "a map" of europe, post ww1; this is both "map as art" & "map as historical document". it demonstrates the skill of the mapmaker, & what a map really was & really looked like, in that era Lx 121 (talk) 12:22, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
result: 13 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral => featured. Maedin\talk 19:29, 1 May 2009 (UTC)