Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Expansion plan of Gothenburg

Expansion plan of Gothenburg

Original - A copy from 1871 of the original proposal to Gothenburg's expansion from 1864, with avenues, boulevards, parks, and monumental architecture.

Reason: High resolution map of the expansion plan of Gothenburg, very high encyclopedic value despite the fact that all text is in Swedish. Many, if not all of, the buildings and areas in this map which are written out have articles in the english wikipedia.
Articles this image appears in: Gothenburg, History of Gothenburg, and Kungsportsavenyn.
Creator: Creator is not credited by any source I know of.

Support as nominator --Krm500 (talk) 03:04, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose because it's really just a decent scan of an old map. It isn't really that exciting in itself just for being old , else we'd be having every scanned in old document featured. Mfield (talk) 04:05, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It's just not an old map, it's a quite unique expansion plan. It is the best preserved unvarying area of 1870–1920 urban planning ideals and architecture in Sweden, maybe even in Europe. --Krm500 (talk) 11:29, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I can see its high encyclopedic value, but it's torn in some places (I think), and it looks like someone spilled an entire coffeepot on it, especially in the upper right hand corner. the faded text also detracts from the value. Intothewoods29 (talk) 17:14, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Faded text? If it help I have it in higher resolution, but the original file is too large for browsers to open I think, and users with low bandwith would have huge troubles viewing it. --Krm500 (talk) 18:02, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - If it's under 20MB, upload it, and see if anyone at the Wikipedia:Graphic Lab can help restore it. Thegreenj 22:08, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose. Definite encyclopedic value. Unfortunately time has not been kind to this map. The decomposition has not been too extensive in the essential locations, so a restoration would be possible (although it would be laborious) but this particular scan is not high enough resolution. The inscription below and to the right of the title is too pixelated to be very legible and the lines outlining the city blocks are incomplete. This is probably a shortcoming of the scanner settings, not of the map itself. So if a better scan is available I would gladly share restoration tips with the nominator and possibly assist with the work. Durova^Charge! 04:50, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose - Not the best scan, but definitely encyclopaedic. --Meldshal (§peak to me) 21:24, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think I have to recant this nomination, when I was about to upload the original resolution of the map I found a copyright claim on the source page. If someone is good at copyright law please contact me at my talk page. --Krm500 (talk) 21:58, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted . --John254 02:12, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]