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Physical map of the world from the CIA World Factbook[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 18 Jul 2019 at 15:47:41 (UTC)

Original – Physical map of the world as of 2016 (SVG)
Reason
This is the highest quality map of the world on Wikipedia. It is an actual SVG map, with vector borders and labels. The elevation illustration, although rasterized, is high resolution.
Articles in which this image appears
World, Region, Geography
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps
Creator
Central Intelligence Agency, US Government
  • Support as nominator – Kaldari (talk) 15:47, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose – too much, and too little at the same time. Viewing the whole, all those names are distracting, while in a close-up look, there's not enough info, and the font is too large. --Janke | Talk 21:07, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • It sounds like you want a dynamically-generated scaling map like Google Maps or OpenStreetMap. Unfortunately, static maps cannot change their information density or font size based on the zoom level, so I'm not really sure how your feedback would be actionable. Kaldari (talk) 19:16, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment – Meh. – Sca (talk) 21:50, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment – I am leaning to support. I don't see big improvements and I think any change will be good and bad depending on who's looking at it. Also, SVGs, fonts, browsers, and operating systems don't always behave well, this coming from CIA probably displays well on most computer platforms. Bammesk (talk) 01:21, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – Any map can be better and different depending on what we want from it. I think this does a good job in the 3 articles listed above. Bammesk (talk) 02:17, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Great at full size, but doesn't thumbnail particularly well. Consider nominating on Commons. MER-C 17:27, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. MER-C 14:27, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Geoffroi 11:22, 13 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support.--Vulphere 18:43, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Map of the world by the US Gov as of 2016 no legend.svg --Armbrust The Homunculus 17:37, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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