User:Dcs002/sandbox02
Crowd disasters[edit]
A crowd disaster is an event in which members of a crowd become injured or killed by the dynamic action of the crowd itself. Examples include stampede, progressive crowd collapse, and crush events. Approximately 20,000 have been killed in such disasters in the past two centuries, including approximately 2,300 who were killed in the 2015 Mina stampede.
Air route of Westray to Papa Westray flight in Orkney, Scotland[edit]
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A map showing the route of the Westray to Papa Westray flight, the shortest airline flight ever, between two Orkney islands. -
Description of second image (if needed)
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Description of third image (if needed; don't request too many at once, though)
- Article(s)
- Westray to Papa Westray flight
- Request
- (I was not sure how I was supposed to fill in the above section, "IMAGE1.EXT")
- I would like a map showing the route of the flight featured in this article. (One editor requested a map, and I agree it would help the article.) Wikimedia has a map of Orkney, but even this is too large to show the route of the flight between the two airports. The two islands in the top-center of that image are Westray (larger island to the west) and Papa Westray (smaller, east). The two airports are at the points where the islands are closest together - the northernmost east-facing peninsula on Westray, and a point almost directly east of there on Papa Westray. I don't know if this image can somehow be adapted or if a new image should be created, but I do think the extreme shortness of the route (1.7 km) would be brought home by a good map, maybe yet another inset in the Orkney map? I think it's key to impress upon the viewer that it is very small on the scale of normal air routes. (The runway at Edinburgh Airport is longer than this entire flight.) I think an outline of the two short runways would help illustrate the scale. (I intend to put the map at the top with the lead and remove one of the other images in the article to keep it somewhat balanced.) Thank you! Dcs002 (talk) 03:29, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
- Graphist opinion(s)
@Dcs002: The map on the right is not exactly as requested. It uses {{OSM Location map}} so can frame any area of map you need, at various scales, and put symbols and so forth on it, but can't do long lines. On the other hand you do also get a link to a full screen zoom-able pan-able map with the key locations on it. You will see from the edit page that it is quite a chunk of template, so you can copy and paste it into your article if it is useful. RobinLeicester (talk) 00:03, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks so much! I will see what I can do with this. I am completely unfamiliar with this mapping system, but it looks like something with a lot of flexibility and clarity. Thanks!