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The Graphics Lab is a project to improve the graphical content of the Wikimedia projects. Requests for image improvements can be added to the workshop pages: Illustrations, Photographs and Maps. For questions or suggestions one can use the talk pages: Talk:Graphics Lab, Talk:Illustrations, Talk:Photographs and Talk:Maps.
This specific page is the requests page for the Map workshop. Anyone can make a request for a map to be created or improved for a Wikipedia article. The standard format for making a request is shown below, along with general advice, and should be followed.
You are encouraged to share information and request advice from others. Also see possible conventions toolbox, map tutorials and topographic map tutorials.

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USA/Canada location map request

Article(s)

North American Rugby League

Request

There are numerous location maps of the USA commons:Category:Location maps of the United Statesand of Canada commons:Category:Location maps of Canada but none covering the two countries together. Can someone produce a location map based on the two listed above? -- Nthep (talk) 16:25, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

@Nthep: Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but this map is already on commons. Zoozaz1 talk 16:10, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, Commons:File:USA and Canada on world map.svg might be more what you are looking for. Zoozaz1 talk 16:13, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the links but neither are really what I'm after. The PNG is the right geographical area but needs to be svg and in the "standard" colour scheme. Nthep (talk) 16:30, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Nthep:What about File:North America map with states and provinces.svg? CMD (talk) 12:58, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

thanks, I hadn't seen that one. I'll try it out. Nthep (talk) 12:55, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Request: Adjusting combined British and Mongol Empire map

A map of the British (red) and Mongol (blue) empires at their respective greatest extents

Article(s): List of largest empires
Request: Hello! This map has been used at List of largest empires until Kimand299 noted that The mongol empire never went that far into eastern europe even at its greatest extent and removed it. I think that this would be fixed if the map used the European border from this version of the Mongol Empire map instead of this version, but I'm not entirely sure so Kimand299 may have to correct me on that. We also noted that it's rather difficult to tell that Hong Kong was part of the British Empire without zooming in quite closely, which I'm not sure how best to solve (it is rather a small territory, so maybe it's okay that zooming in to see it is necessary?). There may be other issues that Kimand299 have noticed—I'll let them elaborate on that if that's the case.

Pinging Amitchell125 who created the map. TompaDompa (talk) 00:22, 1 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

I've contacted Kimand299 to ask for any useful comments before proceeding to offer to amend the map. Amitchell125 (talk) 10:57, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Request: svg map of Greece and Turkey

Article(s): Agesilaus II; I'm looking for an extended map of the one displayed above, which would go at least to Ankara. The reason is to show the campaign of Agesilaus II, who moved from Greece to a city near Ankara. I only need a topographic map (no mention of places needed). T8612 (talk) 13:26, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Request: global peatlands map

Article(s): Peat

Although there already is a global map at the peat article, the grida map seems to differ significantly and seems nice and also indicates the countries. Just move over the coloring to a blankmap. GRIDA map is over at Global distribution of peatlands --Genetics4good (talk) 11:22, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Request new svg map of Carpathian Mountains

Major geographic features of Central Europe
Good example of geographic map
Proposed map

Article(s)

cs:Karpaty

Request

There is not good (even svg) map of whole Carpathian Mountains, which could be ease translate to local language -- Pavouk (talk) 20:27, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

For anyone who wants to take this up:
Topography and Bathometry: https://www.lrg.tum.de/iapg/forschung/topographie/earth2014/ — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 09:24, 15 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pavouk I made already a map of the Panonian Basin. If this one looks OK for you I can try to extend or create a similar one for the Carpathians but this will take me a bit of time. --Ikonact (talk) 09:56, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ikonact Wonderful! Just similar + just little territory on the east (Ukraina, Romania) --Pavouk (talk) 10:06, 19 May 2021 (UTC).[reply]

PavoukJust to understand... do you like to have the one on the Panonian Basin extended to the east or you would like to have a new one focused on the Carpathian mountains like File:Carpathians_dem.jpg? That's right that the difference is not enormous but in the second case I will cut the western part a bit :-) I checked and in both cases I have to work on a new map as the one of the Panonian Basin is not easily extendable to the east. --Ikonact (talk) 10:12, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ikonact A new one, focused on the Carpathian mountains (and small surrounded area), like File:Carpathians_dem.jpg may be not so big area around. --Pavouk (talk) 10:18, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pavouk OK. I take that and will be back to you in few days. --Ikonact (talk) 10:22, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Request taken by Ikonact (talk) 10:22, 19 May 2021 (UTC). Pavouk I made a first draft here. It is still a very draft but with it I would like to know if the limits and the map are in line with your expectations. Please let me know any comment you have at this stage. --Ikonact (talk) 21:19, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ikonact South of Carpathian is " 44°22′N 22°06′E " (en:Serbian_Carpathians#Definitions), so its OK, the west is line approximately betwwen Vienna and Brno, see [1], so move map a little to the West. May be the westernmost part is de:Leiser Berge, so about "16° 24′ 0″ E". North and east are OK. --Pavouk (talk) 21:57, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pavouk I updated the map. Let me know if you would like some changes. If the limits and the content are OK, I will start to clean up and annotate. If you wish some more information or other changes, please let me know. --Ikonact (talk) 07:29, 21 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ikonact The Limits are OK. --Pavouk (talk) 07:32, 21 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pavouk I made a first try. Could you please look and tell what you think. As I do not know the subject very well may be you can help with the annotation if you wish to have more geographic names. You can us the button "Add a note" if you wish to annotate directly on the map. --Ikonact (talk) 20:19, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pavouk I saw the comments on the cs Wikipedia. I tried to fix some of them. There is however an issue with the Carpathians label. The svg library in Commons does not support curved labels so there is no way to put the label across the mountain. I can put it more than once in order to cover the mountain area. Regarding the river labels, that's right that they are not readable on small resolution image but the map has a lot of details and it is difficult to make it readable. My advice will be to use this map in high resolution and make another one simpler to show the main objects. If you prefer a different approach for the map let me know.--Ikonact (talk) 21:37, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ikonact Now the map look very good! But I don't know what to do with label "Carpathians". Solution: 1. no label 2. label in curves 3. couple of letters. 4. solution like now 5. colored background

No label: At first glance, it is not clear exactly where the Carpathians are. A description must be given to the map that it is an arch from Austria to Serbia.
Label (title) in curves: it look very good, like map of Caucasus, Géorgie is in curvers. BUT: not good for translation into another language. In Czech (and other languages) "Karpaty" are much shorter than "Carpathians".
Couple of letters. Every letter is new word, so the label is e.g. C a r p a t h i a n s. The label could be in curves. Translation is posible, but I must delete some words. May be it look not so good.
Nothing changes: it is look, that Carpathians are only in Ukraine and north Romania.
make a colored background: like map of Caucasus, there is red "Bassin versant de la Mer Noire". But may be it is not good solution for geographic map and may be it is difficult choose, which area is inside and which is outside. May be just slightly weak and strong transparent colour could look well.

I don't know, what to choose. --Pavouk (talk) 09:15, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]