Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Conventions/Location maps
This page provide conventions for the creation of location maps, a extremely light and charthink-free style, use especially in geolocalisation infobox. Location maps focus on the subject, most of time a country, and its official subdivisions. This style is on purpose using soft and print-friendly colors, as well as non-CIA based colors.
These maps are often use as background for png locator maps to enlight the place of a major sub-division's in a country. They may also be use as background for exchange maps, or as an administrative layer up on topographic maps by keeping the borders only.
Convention
| Subject | Colorimetry (RGB/hex) |
|---|---|
| Subject's area (country, province) | Template:Couleur |
| Other lands part of the same unity | Template:Couleur |
| Outside area | Template:Couleur |
| Lake's caost, rivers, sea coasts, hydronyms | Template:Couleur |
| Ocean, sea, lacke | Template:Couleur |
| Toponymes | Template:Couleur |
| Border. Labels (country/state/province's name) | Template:Couleur |
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Naming (upload):
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Motivations
Dans la mesure où les cartes géographiques servent de base à la réalisation de nombreuses autres cartes, il est plus particulièrement important qu'elles respectent une certaine uniformité d'apparence. De plus, de telles cartes servent à la géolocalisation et apparaîtront dans l'infobox de nombreux articles ; cette convention contribue donc à l'harmonisation de l'apparence des infoboxes.
History
This convention take its source in the CIA-style from the CIA World Factbook previously upload on wikipedia, but have involved toward a web-friendly, screen friendly, and wiki-specific style. Hard talks on the several wikipedia have eventually lead to this current style.
Currently, the German team is working, continent after continent and country after country, to provide a complete set of SVG location maps, respecting this standard.
Exemples
Image:Savoie_department_location_map.svg is a rigorous up to date example of this style. But this convention are follow by a noticeable number of maps (see Commons:Category:Maps).
