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English: Blank world map in Robinson projection centered at 10°E, with national borders. As a template for making new maps, this file has many options for configuring disputed areas, circles for small jurisdictions, and coloring jurisdictions and borders. Instructions are in comments in the SVG code of the file.
Image:BlankMap-World.png – World map, Robinson projection centered on the meridian circa 11°15' to east from the Greenwich Prime Meridian. Microstates and island nations are generally represented by single or few pixels approximate to the capital; all territories indicated in the UN listing of territories and regions are exhibited.
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.
feature: which geographic objects should be displayed (corresponds in the map data to the name of the field under the objects field). The default is value countries. ids of geographic entities: The actual parameter names depend on the base map and the selected feature. For example, for the above mentioned world map the ids are ISO country codes.
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 available for free download from the Internet Archive. OpenStreetMap - CC-BY-SA 2.0 vector map data collected by GPS; The Map Library - Maps for
This template is used to display a clickable world map to help users navigate a large list of countries by continent. Include the following where you want the map to appear: {{world image map}} The image map assumes that in-page links to all the continents exist, e.g., #Africa, and in some cases, individual countries, e.g., #Canada.
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We can start from pre-existing SVG maps, some samples, with the links below (in Commons) where you can find many others, this (due to the indexation deficits inherent in the large number of existing files) it is better to do a search from the Search Wikimedia Commons input: