User:Roke/maps

''Note: If you can improve or update any maps I have posted you are free to do so. If you disagree with any, you are free to replace, remove or delete them. This is a free encyclopedia after all. If you need assistance for editing images, try the folks at the Graphic Lab/Map workshop or WikiProject Maps as I have been inactive here.''



Maps
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 * For awesome map resources, see Blank maps and  WikiProject Maps. For other mapmakers on wikipedia, see Wikipedians/Cartographers

Any requests for maps can be left on my talk page. Otherwise try WikiProject Maps/Requested and orphan maps or add to an articles talk page.

If there is any way which you can improve these maps feel free to do so - after all they are GNU licenced. If there is anything which you feel needs fixing feel free to alter the map yourself (save copy, edit and upload under "upload a new version of file" - it is better to do this than upload at a different filename because it is useful to see different versions together and a file's history. The exception is where it is figures for a year, in that case it is better to preserve a historical version of figures for one year and have a separate file for the next year. Also another exception is where there is some other difference in the data which justifies having separate versions). Although it might be better to ask me on my talk page because I still have the original files which I made the maps so most things are easy to change. Alternatively you could make your own map. as long as its better :) - the most important thing is to have a better encyclopedia.

Adobe Illustrator is a great program for making maps, though I am still more familiar with Corel Painter and Photoshop. If you are looking for a free program, try GIMP or Inkscape which are also good. If you're going to make maps whatever you do don't make them in jpeg format! It really wrecks flat areas of color. jpeg works with photos not with illustrations. (I made this mistake with my first maps here see above) For maps save in preferably png, svg or if you have to gif. Also its best to use colours which are somewhat de-saturated/greyer - for some maps a saturated colour works to put emphasis on one area but generally it looks awful to make a map with all bright colours. The exception to this is that sometimes on a world map where colors denote a scale for countries its ok to have some bright colours because you want the colors to be distinguishable from each other.

Note that some of these maps may have been altered by other editors.

Also if you're going to post a comment on maps/images on wikipedia, i think its usually better to comment at Wikimedia Commons when thats where the image is stored. When you upload images to commons you can easily check a box to watch the page, but you do not watch the discussion pages at the same time at wikipedia. An uploader of an image to commons may not be watching the discussion page for the image on wikipedia if that makes any sense. I have added many of the image pages at wikipedia to my watchlist but not all of them, so I may miss comments if theyre at the wikipedia talk pages. -->

Atlases
recommended atlases


 * Black, Jeremy. 2001, DK Atlas of World History Dorling Kindersley, New York ISBN 0-7894-4609-X
 * Haywood, John 2001, Cassell's Atlas of World History Andromeda Oxford Ltd, Oxfordshire ISBN 0-304-35757-X
 * Overy, Richard, 2006, The Times Complete history of the world Times Books ISBN 0-00-774629-6
 * Overy, Richard, 2003, The Times. Mapping History. History of the 20th century. ISBN 0-0071-6637-0
 * The Times History of Europe 3,000 years of History in Maps, 2003 Times Books ISBN 0-0071-3161-5
 * Kinder, Hermann and Hilgemann, Werner, 2003, Penguin Atlas of World History, Penguin Group, London ISBN 0-141-01263-3
 * McEvedy, Colin. 1982, Penguin Atlas of Ancient, Medieval, Modern and Recent History, Penguin Books, Middlesex, England ISBN 0-14-0708-34-0
 * Swift, Michael 2006, Mapping the World, Chartwell Books Inc. ISBN 0-7858-2074-4
 * Philip's Atlas of World History, 1992, Philip's ISBN 0-540-05677-4
 * Yenne, Bill 2005 Atlas of North American Railroads, MBI Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, ISBN 0-7603-2299-6


 * 1923 Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd general history atlas
 * 1912 Cambridge Modern History Atlas

map colours
I try to use the standard WikiProject Maps colours where possible:

Names

 * Chinese (simplified) - 地图
 * Dutch - kaart
 * French - carte
 * German - Diagramm
 * Italian - carta
 * Japanese - 地図
 * Korean - 지도
 * Polish - mapa
 * Portuguese - mapa
 * Russian - карта
 * Spanish - mapa
 * Swedish - karta