Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/John Rocque's Map of London, Westminster, and Southwark

John Rocque's Map of London, Westminster, and Southwark

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Original – A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark: a map of Georgian London to a scale of 26 inches to a mile, surveyed by John Rocque, engraved by John Pine, and published in 1746.

Reason: High quality reproduction of this notable map.
Articles in which this image appears: John Rocque's Map of London, Westminster, and Southwark, 1746, John Rocque
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps
Creator: John Rocque

Support as nominator – MER-C 11:08, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support I do love a massively large map - Howard🌽33 11:24, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Visual information is not readily intelligible to general readers/viewers. – Sca (talk) 13:20, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support – to zoom in I had to see it at the source link here: [1]. It's impressive. Or access the individual sheets via the article: [2]. Bammesk (talk) 16:09, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow. -- Sca (talk) 16:50, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

We judge images at full size. Bammesk (talk) 17:20, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mild oppose in current form I like the content, but comparing to Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Turgot map of Paris (2), the main image there is an assembled continuous image with the margins between sheets removed, which seems to me the best way to present this content to a general audience. Unless there's some reason the same couldn't be done with this map, I'd suggest that this is not an optimal version of this map to promote, and we should wait for/produce that version. TSP (talk) 19:29, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think the edges line up tightly enough for the stitching to be feasible. Bammesk (talk) 04:33, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 07:46, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 07:48, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:07, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – The title "Featured Picture" is taken from the main page's daily heading Today's Featured Picture. (See the Main Page.) At Wiki, Featured Pictures (so labelled) don't appear anywhere other than on the Main Page. -- Sca (talk) 14:32, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
That was called Picture of the Day for years. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 03:43, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Yann (talk) 20:31, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:John Rocque's map of London and Westminster, 1746, all sheets.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:57, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]