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Comes with map data derived from two public domain databases. United Nations Cartographic Section has many free maps in PDF format, at least some with the layers intact. However most UN maps are under UN copyright, so check before uploading. See here for their policy, this page about requesting permission. USGS Maps. Every USGS topographic map ...
Free for personal and commercial use, no attribution required. Devostock.com – Over 160,000 free professional images for commercial use. Flickr Public Domain Search – About 6 million Public Domain images (link is to search filtered by "CC0", "No known copyright restrictions" and "U.S. Gov't Works"). Includes British Library.
Maps are useful in presenting key facts within a geographical context and enabling a descriptive overview of a complex concept to be accessed easily and quickly. WikiProject Maps encourages the creation of free maps and their upload on Wikimedia Commons. On the project's pages can be found advice, tools, links to resources, and map conventions.
Image:Map of USA-bw.png – Black and white outlines for states, for the purposes of easy coloring of states. Image:BlankMap-USA-states.PNG – US states, grey and white style similar to Vardion's world maps. Image:Map of USA with county outlines.png – Grey and white map of USA with county outlines.
This work has been released into the public domain by its author, CIA.This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: CIA grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
OpenStreetMap (abbreviated OSM) is a free, open map database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration. [4] Contributors collect data from surveys, trace from aerial photo imagery or satellite imagery, and import from other freely licensed geodata sources.
You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses ...
Fictitious entries on maps may be called phantom settlements, trap streets, [14] paper towns, cartographer's follies, or other names. They are intended to help reveal copyright infringements. [15] They are not to be confused with paper streets, which are streets which are planned but as of the printing of the map have not yet been built.