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The aim of WikiProject Maps is to improve the quality of maps across the Wikimedia Foundation. The Maps for Wikipedia page is an overview of different formats and tools for maps available on Wikipedia. The Map conventions page provides advice for creating and improving maps. The Map workshop page can be used to add your map requests and your ...
The tutorials below follow the training of a hypothetical new map maker: the deeper you go, the more complexity and beauty you find. Demonstration of how an SVG map is built layer by layer: 1.Valley; 2.Plain; 3.Hill; 4.Rivers; 5.Troops; 6.Moves; 7.Text; 8.Locator map; 9.Legend. Topographic map with English information on it.
Inset maps may be used with in locator maps so that the location can be seen in a wider context; the subject being located within larger-scale map (the local map), accompanied by a smaller scale map of the country or wider region (the wide map). Two versions are commonly seen: The wide map in an inset within the local map;
This page provides conventions for the creation of location maps . Location maps are an extremely light and chartjunk -free style. They focus on the subject, most of the time a country, and its official borders and subdivisions borders. This style purposely uses soft and print-friendly colors to ease the superimposition of labels or dots, as ...
WikiProject Maps/Conventions. Since we love map making for its clarity, Wikipedians developed several local cartographic styles over the years. Summary tables of each major map convention used in Wikipedia, across all languages. While the conventions are strongly recommended, cartographers are free to fit their specific needs.
In cartography, a map projection is any of a broad set of transformations employed to represent the curved two-dimensional surface of a globe on a plane. [1][2][3] In a map projection, coordinates, often expressed as latitude and longitude, of locations from the surface of the globe are transformed to coordinates on a plane. [4][5] Projection ...
Creation: Historical maps are conveniently derivate from country or wider area Location maps. The map maker have to color the background (ocean, land, rivers, subject area) to the Locator maps conventional colours. To create up on areas, the map maker is suggested to use Areas maps colours. For labels and icons, please see below.
Critical cartography. Critical cartography is a set of mapping practices and methods of analysis grounded in critical theory, specifically the thesis that maps reflect and perpetuate relations of power, typically in favor of a society's dominant group. [1] Critical cartographers aim to reveal the “‘hidden agendas of cartography’ as tools ...