Commons:Map resources
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To find categorized maps, atlases, and satellite pictures please see:
- Category:Maps – maps for Wikipedia sites in many languages.
- Category:WikiAtlas – current and historical atlases for many nations and regions.
- Category:Satellite pictures – categorized satellite photos.
See Commons:Threshold of originality#Maps. Use {{PD-map}} on maps. Nearly all non-fictitious maps are in the public domain, unless they contain something copyrightable like a photo, etc..
- Note: Please add more free sites. Resulting maps must be free according to Wikimedia standards.
Anybody can create maps for free at the sites below and upload them to the Commons.
- Datawrapper.de – Create charts and maps with Datawrapper for free. Add an image license, and this template:
- MapChart.net – Create custom maps for free. Use this image license template:
- Special:PrefixIndex/Commons:Map resources. All subpages of this page.
The subpages are a repository of various files useful for creating new maps for various wiki projects. The files in the subpages are not necessarily opened through web browsers since many of them are in graphic applications generic formats, like GIMP.
- Commons:Help desk. You may get a more rapid answer here.
- Commons:Graphic Lab/Map workshop – for help creating or improving maps.
- en:Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop – edits and creates maps on request.
- en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps#Participants – ask the participants for help.
- en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps – ask at this talk page.
- en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration – ask project members for help.
- en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Illustration – ask at this talk page.
- es:Wikiproyecto:Ilustración/Taller gráfico/Peticiones – página de peticiones del taller gráfico de Wikipedia en español.
- fr:Wikipédia:Atelier graphique/Cartes – specific page of the French Graphic Lab for map creation or modification.
- it:Progetto:Laboratorio_grafico/Immagini_da_migliorare – Italian Graphic Lab.
- Category:Maps by source. For many map sources.
- Category:Commons maps – a map work category with many resources.
- Commons:WikiProject Atlas – for working on atlases.
- Category:WikiAtlas Assistance – altas help, templates, progress.
- Commons:Free media resources/Map.
- Commons:Wikimaps.
- Commons:Wikimaps/Resources.
- Category:Blank maps - blank templates for making informational maps. "You can also find blank maps in the category:SVG maps : by easily deleting the additional SVG format information of those maps you will get rapidly a blank map. See Commons:File types#SVG for more info."
- mapfast.co - MapFast. Create beautiful maps instantly. Avoid problems by labeling the column headers in your 2-column CSV file as "location" and "data" before uploading the file. See help with example of a rate map with visible numbers (optional) on the map:
These SVG maps have user-editable sections (any text editor) to allow creation of more maps on more topics. Just paste in a list of states and values. See examples at Category:English-language SVG choropleth maps of the United States with visible numbers. Made with templates. Feel free to create map templates for other countries too. Cmglee may be able to help with that.
| Version 2: Convert a US list/table to a state-by-state data map. With examples and step-by step instructions. Example: |
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| Simple map below with state names and colored states. See its talk page. |
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3 SVG file checkers are listed below. Use them on SVG maps (like the ones in the previous section). Some text editors such as en:Notepad++ will both edit SVG files, and show line numbers. File checkers list errors by line number.
- en:Wikipedia:SVG help#Testing for problems - Here they are:
- WMF Labs SVG check. Among other things it will tell you if there is a font that does not exist on Wikimedia wikis. And it will show you what the map may look like on the Commons without having to upload it permanently first. It depends on if the software versions are the same. Commons rendering can be different from what a map looks like in a browser before uploading.
- Commons SVG Checker. If checking via file name do not include "File:"
- w3.org validator. Upload file. Don't use Commons file URL.
- en:MOS:COLOR - Many file checkers to upload map to.
- en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Colors
Color blindness:
- Coblis — Color Blindness Simulator - Colblindor. Easy to use.
- Color vision deficiency emulator. Easy to use. Upload a PNG/JPG/JPEG map. Download a PNG map from various-size links on Commons SVG file description page. After uploading to the emulator save the "All" tab with all the test results compiled on one page. That way you can compare different images. The emulator will stop working if you try to upload too many images, especially the same exact image, because you forgot what the results were.
Contrast checkers:
- WhoCanUse. Who can use this color combination?
- WebAIM: Contrast Checker.
- Colour Contrast Check -snook.ca.
Wikipedia help:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Colors
- Wikipedia:Colour contrast
- Help:Link color - some map overlays have links.
- Help:Using colours#Schemes for colour-blind readers
- Help:Table/Advanced#Colors in tables. Contrast tools and more.
- Meta:Category:Wikimaps – Meta-Wiki category for many map resources.
- meta:WikiMiniAtlas – draggable, zoomable, and clickable geocoded maps.
On mediawiki.org – MediaWiki.
- mw:Maps – catalogs tools, extensions, projects, help, and more.
- mw:Category:Map extensions
- mw:Help:Map Data
- mw:Wikimedia Maps
- mw:Help:VisualEditor/Maps
- en:Category:Maps
- en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps – Much info and many links. List of all subpages.
- en:Wikipedia:Maps for Wikipedia - many links.
- en:Wikipedia:Graphics Lab - various workshops. One is for maps.
- en:Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop
- en:Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Resources
- en:Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Resources/Tutorials/Map tutorials
- en:Category:Wikipedia geography work groups
- en:Category:Wikipedia maps – the map work category at English Wikipedia.
- en:Category:Cartography – categorized Wikipedia articles on cartography.
- en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Source materials – many source materials.
- en:Wikipedia:Creating route maps from OpenStreetMap data – a tutorial for making line maps.
- en:Wikipedia:Creating shape maps from OpenStreetMap data – a tutorial for making shape maps.
- en:Wikipedia:Image source files - see maps section.
- en:Category:Mapping templates
- en:Category:Graphic templates – some map templates, too.
- en:Category:Wikipedia template categories – Some map-related templates here.
- Note: See also the user-editable map section higher up.
- Category:Map tutorials
- Image:Tutorial-cartography (basic).svg – learn quickly how to draw SVG maps.
- Commons:PDF to image files – many free maps from the UN and elsewhere are in the PDF format.
- en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/PDF map conversion to SVG
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- Category:Commons geocoding
- meta:WikiMiniAtlas – draggable, zoomable, and clickable geocoded maps.
- Geographic coordinates, geotagging and geocoding.
- de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en. International cooperation for coordinate mapping. See also:
- en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates
- en:Category:WikiProject Geographical coordinates
- en:Category:Coordinates templates
Please upload more free maps to Commons. Resulting maps must be free according to Wikimedia standards.
- Wikitravel: Category:Maps – {{CC-by-sa-3.0}}.
- Map Library (MapLibrary.org) [1]. Africa and Central America. "The Map Library is a source of public domain basic map data concerning administrative boundaries in developing countries." {{PD-MapLibrary}}.
- CIA reference maps: [2]. Public domain info: {{PD-USGov-CIA}} and {{PD-USGov-CIA-WF}}.
- United Nations Cartographic Section Web Site: [3]. Public domain info: Commons:Copyright tags#United Nations and {{UN map}}
- Maps and Graphics library [4] of the United Nations Environment Programme.
- Government Maps [5]. Paul V. Galvin Library at Illinois Institute of Technology. {{PD-USGov}}.
- U.S. Library of Congress maps: [6]. Public domain info: [7]: "The maps in the Map Collections materials were either published prior to 1922, produced by the United States government, or both (see catalogue records that accompany each map for information regarding date of publication and source)." Publications of the U.S. federal government are in the public domain. {{PD-USGov}}.
- planiglobe online map creation Generates maps from public domain data. Postscript and Adobe Illustrator versions can be downloaded. {{Planiglobe}}.
- For a variety of U.S. federal government image license templates see: Commons:Copyright tags#United States.
See Public Domain.
- Create Custom Map - MapChart at mapchart.net – see Terms of service. Use {{Mapchart.net}}.
- Perry-Castañeda Library – the Map Collection [8] is in the public domain (see FAQ: [9]): "Most of the maps scanned by the University of Texas Libraries and served from this web site are in the public domain. No permissions are needed to copy them. You may download them and use them as you wish. We appreciate credit to "University of Texas Libraries" as the source of the scanned images. A few maps are copyrighted, and are clearly marked as such."
- Map Maker Trust [10] – "The Map Maker Trust is a source of free map data and mapping software for developing countries. The idea behind the Map Maker Trust is that the lack of good, simple maps is a serious obstacle to development in all kinds of fields, from health care to urban management, from de-mining to environmental protection. The Trust's purpose is two fold: to make public domain mapping data more readily available for developing countries, and to provide free, easy to use software to facilitate map making by non-experts."
- Note: Use {{PD-map}} for maps. Regardless of other claims, nearly all non-fictitious maps are in the public domain, unless they contain something copyrightable like a photo, etc..
These resources may need further clarification. If you upload images from these resources to the commons, then there is a possibility that they may be put up for deletion. Consider this an opportunity to show that they are truly free images, and that they can be used both non-commercially and commercially. The Wikimedia Commons also requires that the images can be modified without asking permission (derivative use). To prove all this you may have to contact the resource and send their reply to the VRT.
- UC Atlas of Global Inequality – home page [11]: "The Atlas of Global Inequality explores some aspects of inequality using online, downloadable maps and graphics. All these materials can be used freely providing they are attributed to the UC Atlas of Global Inequality." University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Free blank maps of countries and continents at geography.about.com: [12]. Overall map portal at geography.about.com:
- Maps of Canada and Atlas of the World maps. Online Historical Map Digitization Project Publisher queries and map re-use information
- Sources of public domain maps. Public Domain Sherpa.
- Public Domain – Copyright Guide – Research Guides at Library of the Marine Corps. See the map links and sections.
See:
6.9–11
11.1–13.5
13.6–16.0
16.1–18.5
18.6–21.0
21.1–52.0
On the file description page there are several examples of map legends:
See also:
- Template and instructions to convert a US list/table to a state-by-state map. It uses a horizontal legend bar.
See Template:legend on Wikipedia, and {{Legend}} on the Commons.
One way to determine the exact color is via freeware IrfanView. Open image. Then:
- Edit menu > Show Paint dialog > click on the eyedropper > click somewhere in the image > click on the color at the bottom of the Paint dialog > Write down the Red, Green, and Blue color numbers (RGB).
Convert RGB colors to hex color or color name (if there is one):
- Categories
- Category:Commons resources
- Category:Locator maps
- Category:Location maps
- Category:Maps by type
- Category:Historical maps
- Category:SVG maps
- Category:Map pointers
- Category:Graphic_Lab_tools
- On Wikipedia