Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Resources/Tutorials
- Note: For help with image creation and editing ask at Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop.
Map-related subpages of the Graphic Lab
- See also Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources for more resource subpages on various topics.
- Conventions
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Conventions - already 6 conventions available, some strongly supported by specific teams.
- Main resources
- Tutorials
- media:Tutorial-cartography_(basic).svg - Tutorial for beginner on using inkscape (done a 90%), download, open in Inkscape, and do the exercises.
- Optimizing relief
- PDF conversion to SVG
- PDF conversion to SVG/Adobe Illustrator
Some map-related tutorials in the process of translation into English can be found here:
Map resources
- Category:Maps - to find categorized maps.
- Category:Wikipedia maps - a work category concerning maps.
- commons:Commons:Map resources - links to map resources across various Wikimedia projects.
- commons:Category:Commons maps - a Commons work category concerning maps, templates, etc..
- commons:Commons:Project Mapmaking Wiki Standards — Mostly dead
- Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image workshop
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps#Participants
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration
- fr:Wikipédia:Atelier graphique/Cartes - Specific page of the French Graphic Lab for map creation or modification.
Other
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The overall category for working on maps is Category:Wikipedia maps. For categorized maps themselves see Category:Maps.
See also the many resource and help links here:
- meta:Maps
- meta:Map generator
- meta:Geographical data
- meta:Wikiatlas
- Category:Maps
- Category:Wikipedia maps - for map work, help, templates, etc..
- Portal:Atlas/ Wikimedia Atlas
- Upload, to upload your free work.
When adding maps to articles, you have two options; you can add a separate map, or add a geo-referenced template that links to several maps depending on the reader's preference.
- Blank resources
- Commons:Map resources - sources for maps, help, tools.
- Source materials (up to date?)
- Wikipedia:Blank maps
- User:Brion VIBBER/Maps and images for Wikipedia (out to date page, no longer needed)
- Libre Map Project boundary maps - Blank boundary maps for all 50 United States including state, county, and county subdivisions in PNG and SVG formats. (helpful)
- See also
- Location maps (2008 international recommendations for location maps)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Cartographers (Table with ancient or current cartographers)
- Help map makers
This page is a collection point for map resources for use in Wikipedia. The overall category for working on maps is Category:Wikipedia maps. See also Commons:Map resources. For categorized maps themselves see Category:Maps. To access all the subpages of WikiProject Maps go to Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps.