Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Conventions/Orthographic maps

This page provide conventions for the creation of orthographic maps. Orthographic maps display a country (or set of countries) on a globe representation of the world. Like location maps, orthographic maps are very basic, and should not have, or have very few labels. Maps should be centred on the subject of interest.

Usage: These maps are often used in country infoboxes Template:Infobox Country to demonstrate where a country is in the world..

Where: these maps can be found on commons, Grey-green_orthographic_projections_maps.

Convention

Convention for orthographic maps.

Subject	Colorimetry (RGB/hex)
Toponymes (names)	#000000 R:0 G:0 B:0
Subject's area (country, province)	#336733 R:51 G:103 B:51
Subject border	#335033 R:51 G:80 B:51
Other areas part of the same political unity	#C6DEBD R:198 G:222 B:189
Claimed areas	#73CD73 R:115 G:205 B:115
Outside area	#CDCDCD R:205 G:205 B:205
Other borders	#646464 R:100 G:100 B:100
Ocean, sea, lake	#FFFFFF R:255 G:255 B:255
Border of the globe	#AAAAAA R:170 G:170 B:170
Naming (upload): File:{Country name in English} (orthographic projection).svg Or possibly File:{ISO 3-letter Country code} orthographic.svg
Further needs: Dimensions: 550x550 pixels. Border of the globe: 1.5 pixels. Latitude/longitude grid: .3 pixels in black with 77 in the transparency value. Coasts and borders of countries: .3 pixels. Legend: not needed. Scale: not needed (since misleading). Scale is non-linear across the globe Projections: Orthographic projection Gradient: File:Orthographic gradient.svg

Motivations

To identify where a country is, with respect to other nearby countries that the viewer may know about.

History and current work

The first of these maps was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by User:Ssolbergj in 2008.

This conventions are from Commons:Grey-green_orthographic_projections_maps, although maps are not [yet] consistent in presentation style and must be discussed to improve it.

• The surrounding area colours were taken from Commons:Template:EU-SVG-en.
• The gradient, border of the globe, and the colours of the latitude/longitude grid, was taken from the original files created by User:Ssolbergj.
• The outside land color were dicussed here and here, and are open for coments.

Examples

Examples

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  Othographic projection centred on New Zealand
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  Orthographic projection depicting Asia
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  Othographic projection centred on Chile
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  Othographic projection centred on China
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  Othographic projection centred on Madagascar