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Related WikiProjects

The parent of this WikiProject is the Geography WikiProject. WikiProject Maps also is a management type WikiProject for pictorial representations displayed within Wikipedia. The following illustrates the position of WikiProject Maps within the Wikipedia WikiProject lineage:

– Lineage of WikiProject Maps
  • Creation/improvement of pictorial representations displayed within Wikipedia
  • Acquisition of pictorial representations displayed within Wikipedia
  • Distribution of pictorial representations displayed within Wikipedia
  • Monitoring of pictorial representations displayed within Wikipedia

WikiProjects that have made use of geographical maps include:

Conventions for visa policy maps

Hello, WP:MAPS. I am currently working on the visa policy of Nauru, and I was wondering if there was any conventions on the colors would be? It seems like the other visa policy articles have a lot of different colors, and I just wanted to be correct. Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael Jester (talk • contribs) 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Shetland islands

just dropping a quick note here as I was asked to look at this Talk:Shetland#Need_better_map_image - looks like it ought to get a combination of File:Wfm_shetland_map.png and File:Shetland_UK_location_map.svg — Preceding unsigned comment added by EdwardLane (talk • contribs) 1 November 2014 (UTC)

Please assess

Please assess Fictitious entry. Thanks! 11:32, 3 October 2018 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Asianflavoure (talk • contribs) 4 October 2018 (UTC)

2021 Blank map with national borders?

Is there updated 2021 version of this blank map with national borders (good for Paint)? What is origin of this map? I couldn't find it in Commons:Category:Blank maps of the world and its subcategories. The other question is how to edit it expect Paint? Eurohunter (talk) 19:10, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That appears to be derived from File:A large blank world map with oceans marked in blue.PNG. I don't fully understand the second question, any image editor should work. What do you want to do exactly? CMD (talk) 02:13, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Chipmunkdavis: Thank you. If you want to colour Canada or Russia it is a lot of work with slands in Paint (to point and chceck actual map of Canada or Russia borers). Is it the only way? Eurohunter (talk) 09:27, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Back in the early days before svgs became more widespread there used to be many maps which used a png which had lines connecting all islands together, but I can't find an example now. An alternative would be to use a simpler map, or if you just want to highlight countries but aren't able to make an .svg, then asking at Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop. CMD (talk) 09:40, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

SVG Locator maps of seas

Currently, virtually all of the locator maps of sea are PNGs or JPEGs.

I have created a set of SVG maps of most of the seas and would like to contribute them to Wikimedia (under the standard license (CC BY-SA 3.0)). However, I'm not sure how best to proceed.

I created the maps for the purposes of the Anki Ultimate Geography deck, so I chose the style of the maps to fit in with that of the maps already used there. The vast majority of the maps previously present there were taken (obviously in compliance with their license) from the German Locator map project, and in particular the SVG 16:9 locator maps of countries, (for example Belarus in its region) hence I followed their stylistic and mapping choices:

  • Using the Winkel Tripel projection.
  • Including country borders (despite the focus of the maps being on the seas!).
  • Including a mini-map.
  • Using the same colours for coastlines, country borders, seas, land territories and the mini-map.

The main independent choice was choosing a colour for the highlighted seas. AFAICT there are no specific guidelines in the Locator maps design recommendations regarding the marker colour for water bodies. The generally recommended dark red marker colour looked extremely weird for seas, so I chose a dark blue (#4790c8).

(As background: "Anki Ultimate Geography" is a flashcard deck for the open-source, spaced-repetion system, Anki. Its purpose is to help people learn the locations, capitals and flags (where appropriate) of various geographical areas — countries, regions and seas.)

The maps are generated from Natural Earth Data's shapefiles, mostly using mapshaper, via a horribly messy web of scripts (available here). In general, where possible, I aimed to follow the IHO's 1953 "Limits of Oceans and Seas" to determine the extent of the seas (the data in the shapefiles was mostly, with a couple of exceptions, consistent with these definitions). Occasionally I instead followed the IHO's 2002 draft of "Limits of Oceans and Seas".

The generated maps are available here (a couple of them in the "original" SVG, the remainder converted to PNG — git wasn't too happy with a larger number of the relatively heavy SVG files). (I obviously have all the SVGs on my computer.)

The World Map including "marked up" sea and ocean areas, equivalent to World location map (W3).svg is here.

My main questions are:

1. What naming scheme should I follow for the maps? (Would "{name of sea} in its region" be OK?)

2. How should I categorise them? (e.g. should I add them to this category?)

3. The SVGs are pretty large (~ 5 MB). Should I try to reduce this (e.g. removing the extent of countries, which is nice-to-have in case somebody wishes to edit one to highlight both a given country and a given water body, but not exactly essential for the maps-as-they-currently-are)?

4. As described above, the stylistic choices were based on the SVG locator maps for countries, rather than on the existing PNG locator maps of seas. I think having such a set of maps which highlight seas in the political context (country borders) is valuable. However, it might be worth also creating a set of SVG maps that are very close to the existing PNG ones, so that they could be drop-in replacements. (That would involve copying the colour scheme (possibly with changes?) and the choice of "cropping" (what areas other than the seas themselves, are visible. Some of the PNG maps have slightly fuzzy choices regarding the extent of the seas, in some cases (e.g. Celtic Sea), so IMO it would probably be best not to copy that. As the current PNG images are extremely light, it might also be worth more aggressively optimising the size of the SVGs.) If some other style (colours/choice of projection) would be desirable I could also probably do that, relatively easily.

(I had also commented on the corresponding Talk page, but didn't get a reply, probably because nobody read the talk page.)

Aplaice (talk) 13:38, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Lighter relief map for Portugal

Currently, Module:Location map/data/Portugal uses File:Portugal location map Topographic.png as its relief map, however, wouldn't it make more sense to use File:Reliefkarte Portugal.png? The current relief map makes labels hard to read, and changing the map to the lighter version would make it the same as the majority of other relief maps used for other locations. Aris Odi ❯❯❯ talk 05:57, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Update: In fact, maybe this shouldn't just be about Portugal, shouldn't every country use the same style for their relief maps? Aris Odi ❯❯❯ talk 06:42, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that most country map templates do use the lighter style. I'm gessing the darker style is older, as it seems to only be used for a few smaller countries, like Antigua and Barbuda, Portugal, Uruguay, Saint Lucia, and Senegal. Justin Kunimune (talk) 14:03, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like some countries lack a file with the newer style of relief map, while others have one but they're not being used in the module yet. I'm wondering, would it somehow be possible to get every country a map in the newer style? Aris Odi ❯❯❯ talk 09:03, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Reorganising

Hello everyone! I thought I'd drop a courtesy notice that I hope to reorganise some of the pages on this wikiprojects and add breadcrumbs, etc to make everything easier to navigate. Just dropping a note in case some things are moved around. Cheers, — Berrely • Talk∕Contribs 14:47, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting inputs

Greetings

Requesting (brainstorming) inputs regarding Manual of Style proposal @ Chronological listing of coastal townships

Thanks and warm regards

Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' (talk) 10:12, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Looking for archive of all currently existing maps

Hello, for research purposes I have been looking for an archive of all Maps used on historical articles on Wikipedia. They are enormously helpful however due to the scale of my research project it would be much faster if I could look through an archive of the maps used to demonstrate changing borders of nations over the millenniums! Thank you

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