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Wikipedia:Public domain image resources. Public domain image resources is a copy of the master Wikipedia page at Meta, which lists a number of sources of public domain images on the Web. Public Domain images should be marked with the Public Domain Mark 1.0.
These are azimuthal orthographic projections of the Earth from four sides plus the poles. 726x726 pixels, aliased. XCFs have separate layers for water, land, coastlines, political borders, political borders over water (not shown in PNGs), and latitude & longitude gridlines (not shown in PNGs). Image:Blankmap-ao-000 -africa europe.png XCF.
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Redone map based on the borders of the world as of December 31, 1999. 09:58, 19 December 2006: 1,427 × 628 (50 KB) Hoshie: Blank map of the world showing 2000 borders (i.e. before 9/11 and the independence of E. Timor and Montenegro). Based off Image:BlankMap-World.png; as it is PD, this is too.
World map. A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
In creating geographical maps for Wikipedia, it is often useful to have high-quality source material such as blank outline maps, Adobe Photoshop or GIMP -format images with layers, SVG files and so on. If you have such source material that you think may be helpful to other map authors, please feel free to upload it to Wikipedia and list it here.
File:BlankMap-World.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 × 406 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 162 pixels | 640 × 325 pixels | 1,024 × 520 pixels | 1,280 × 650 pixels | 2,560 × 1,300 pixels | 2,754 × 1,398 pixels. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.
Further information: List of historical maps and history of cartography. The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period. The developments of Greek geography during ...