Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:1922 Index of Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.jpg

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Reason

Index to the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India (1922). The survey had great scientific and popular accomplishments, namely being one of the first accurate measurements of a section of a longitude's arc, other measurements that led to the development of the theory of isostasy, and the measurements of the height of the Everest, K2, and Kanchenjunga (3 of the highest mountains in the world). FP on Commons.

Articles in which this image appears

Great Trigonometrical Survey

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps

Creator

Government of India, uploaded by Shyamal

• Support as nominator – A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 15:59, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose – Extremely complex map lacks readily accessible visual information. – Sca (talk) 13:22, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Excellent EV, the first of its kind, and the map project became a stepping stone in the understanding of Earth's crust (isostasy). Bammesk (talk) 14:01, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 19:49, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. MER-C 20:01, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.6% of all FPs} 14:02, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. High-quality scan, encyclopedic information, appropriate lead image for a notable subject. The opposition above enunciates clearly my reason for cutting back my participation in the FPC process: too many participants care only about pretty pictures of charismatic megafauna and postcard landscapes, pushing out the encyclopedic but non-photogenic images. If you want that, go to Commons; they have their own FPC whose rules don't focus as much on encyclopedic content. This sort of image is exactly the sort of thing we should be including here, to differentiate Wikipedia FPC from commons (or would, except that commons actually passed this image already). —David Eppstein (talk) 20:54, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support I'm not sure what "readily accessible visual information" the picture is lacking; I mean, it's obviously a map of India. Photogenicity is in the eye of the beholder (e.g., people really into cartography might like a wall poster of this); more importantly for our purposes, its encyclopedic merits are clear. XOR'easter (talk) 22:54, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:1922 Index of Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:51, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]