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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. Each convention has its own sub-page, containing: An introduction explaining the style objectives and the most convenient way to create a such map.
The process of supplying freely licensed maps for direct use in Wikipedia articles is important to make the articles complete, especially for offline versions. A complementary effort, however, is adding latitude and longitude coordinates to articles about geographically fixed entities. This enables readers to click through to find maps of the ...
During much of the latter 20th century, this was the primary goal of academic cartography, especially the Cartographic Communication school of thought: to determine how to make the most efficient maps as conduits of information. Clarity, the degree to which the map makes its purpose obvious and its information easy to access. Clarity can be ...
The table above has links to various tutorials and resources which can help in the creation of Wikipedia maps from digital georeferenced data . Layers: . NASA topographic data ; . NaturalEarth political divisions and watersways ; . OSM roads and urban areas ; . Shaded relief (processed) ; . Specific projection. a.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to cartography: Cartography (also called mapmaking ) – study and practice of making and using maps or globes . Maps have traditionally been made using pen and paper , but the advent and spread of computers has revolutionized cartography.
During the first half of the 20th century, cartographers began to think seriously about how the features they drew depended on scale. Eduard Imhof, one of the most accomplished academic and professional cartographers at the time, published a study of city plans on maps at a variety of scales in 1937, itemizing several forms of generalization that occurred, including those later termed ...
Costing 350 guilders for a non-coloured and 450 guilders for a coloured version, the atlas was the most precious book of the 17th century. However, the Atlas Maior was also a turning point: after that time the role of Dutch cartography (and Netherlandish cartography in general) was finished. Janssonius died in 1664 while a great fire in 1672 ...
A medieval depiction of the Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography and using his second map projection. The translation into Latin and dissemination of Geography in Europe, in the beginning of the 15th century, marked the rebirth of scientific cartography, after more than a millennium of stagnation.