Template talk:European Union Labelled Map (blue)

message: In the current version, font size is too small for "Member states", "Candidates", and "Croatia". In mac browsers, the text degenerates. —Tokek 13:54, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Font size too small

message: Why aren't the candidate countries shown on this map any more? And why do I seem to see double when I look at the template page? Caveat lector 13:10, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Candidates and presentation 

message: I just noticed my edit unwittingly reverted the last editor and feel I should give some explanation. The thing is, I'm not sure the naming is inconsistent. All countries are given their conventional short forms: France is the conventional short form used for the French Republic; Ireland is the conventional short form (and only official name) of Ireland. The conventional short form used for the Czech Republic is the Czech Republic. Czechia isn't really standard at all. --Lo2u (T • C) 00:42, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Czech Republic 

message: Looking the map even with a magnifier, I have a difficulty to find the Greek islands, especially those of the Aegean. So, I was wondering: Don't they belong to the EU?!
Excuse me for the wording. I do not want to belittle those creating this nice animated map, but I would like to have some comments on this particular issue. Is there something wrong with my vision? Am I missing something? Do I fail to understand something?--Yannismarou (talk) 23:36, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Shrug. It was probably created from some blank map (can't identify which exactly, there are several at :commons:Category:Blank maps of Europe), and the creator of either the blank map or the derived one didn't bother about such details. Several of our blank maps there are not very good about islands. It's not extremely important for the purpose of this particular application, of course, but sure, at least Rhodes and Lesbos are large enough to make their omission something of an oversight. You can always go and grab some of the other maps and re-do the animation on that basis (:File:Blank map europe.png or a cropped version of that would work.) Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:16, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It also doesn't show the Aeolian islands, many of the Hebridean islands or the Lofotens. I don't think anything POV is meant by that omission, it's probably just a matter of small land masses not being visible at the map's current scale. -- ChrisO (talk) 07:52, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not say that there was a POV intention, but the omission is a fact. Now, I am not a specialist in maps (this is a problem!), but with some guidance and instructions I would like to have a look and see if indeed the islands are not visible in the map's current scale. For instance, Zakynthos is visible. Why not Lesbos, Chios, Rhodes and Corfu as well?--Yannismarou (talk) 08:04, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, they are obviously really not there, in this electronic file. It could be an effect of the software that scaled down the coastline from some larger model and ironed out small items in the process, or it could have been a manual intervention of the editor, who felt those spots were too small to bother coloring them. Who knows. Note that most Aegean islands would have been hardly more than one or two pixels, and with the coastline contour drawn around them there would be no visible space left to fill in a colour. Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:16, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The Greek islands?

message: I found this map confusing at first because I didn't notice the year number in the corner and did not realize it's an animation.  To clarify this, could someone change the single year number to a timeline of year numbers?  This would make it very clear that it's an animation.  Here is my ASCII art depiction of my recommendation for clarity:
 <..*......*....*..*.*.*.>
           ^
         1973
The year indicator moves horizontally as the map animates.  Tempshill (talk) 17:59, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing at first 

message: I see the names of the countries written in different colors. Switzerland, e.g., green, the EU countries black, many others blue, and Serbia orange. Does it show like this also for others, or is my browser freaking. Tomeasy T C 15:11, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Different colors 

message: What is the purpose of the italics and the blue links? I don't see any particular relationships between each type of formatting. Chipmunkdavis (talk) 17:28, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Italics are non-EU states, I would say. No idea why some are blue. The colors should be unified if there is no reason to have a difference. Tomeasy T C 20:20, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writing formatting 

message: There is a great error as far as Cyprus is concerned. The entire territory of the Republic of Cyprus is part of the EU, not only the free one. Please fix the map so as the northern turkish-occupied part of the island (where only the application of the acquis communautaire is suspended) to be seen in blue. Thank you in advance.87.202.139.116 (talk) 00:31, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cyprus 

message: I'm not sure how this works, but B&H isn't clickable, perhaps due to size, please if you have the know-how do something about this...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.36.175.70 (talk) 01:10, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  B&H link 

message: Where is the Faroe Island!!? - User:Liturin 13:11, 18 January 2014
:Hi Liturin. Welcome to Wikipedia. If you have questions or comments about an article or template, please add it to the relevant wp:talkpage and not to the article or template where it might be visible to the public-at-large.
:The Faroe Islands are on the map but given the area covered by the map and the size of the islands they only occupy seven pixels. They are also coloured grey as they are outside the European Union which obviously make them harder to see. — Blue-Haired Lawyer t 16:36, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faroe 

message: Would it be possible to change the chronology so Algeria leaving the EU at the 1962 independence is included? As it is now, one gets the impression that it left in 1973.
Also, would it be possible to change the geographical area covered so the map could show (a corner of) Greenland joining with Denmark in 1973 and leaving in 1985 (after the 1979 autonomy)?
With those changes it would be perfect. --Thathánka Íyotake (talk) 23:30, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Algeria and Greenland