Wikipedia:WikiProject Malaysia/Cartography

The cartography department of the Malaysian WikiProject aims to assemble a collection of high-quality maps for use in Malaysia-related articles; both through obtaining existing public domain or free-license maps, and by creating new ones as needed. New maps can be created using the guidelines made ready by WikiProject Maps.

Participants
Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to help the project; you are also encouraged to participate in any of our taskforce or workgroup that might interest you.


 * (coordinator)

Creating maps
The preferred image format according to WikiProject Maps is SVG as it retains the image quality when scaled. It is suggested that maps follow the formatting at WikiProject Maps/Conventions and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia also has a help page to assist SVG users.

Potential sources

 * Commons:Category:Maps of Malaysia
 * WikiProject Maps/Source materials

Map requests
Please leave a map request below and we will try to accommodate your requirements. It should be noted that there is no guarantee that your request will be met, but we will try to get it done to our best abilities.


 * Kuching District area map with distributions into three (3) local authority jurisdictions, namely DBKU, MBKS and MPP. Map source can be obtained from the MPP official website. CoolCityCat (talk) 16:40, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Geographical
Here are lists of geographical maps that are needed for the project.

Blank maps
Ideally blank maps should have borders for subdivisions in the state (ie: district or division borders)

State and Federal Territory locator maps
There is already available locator maps for all states and FT, however those maps have not conformed to the color scheme recommended below.

Locator maps
To have standardization of locator maps you may follow the suggestions below.

City locator
For major towns or cities it is better to use the whole Malaysia map image for the locator. To get locator image, you don't need to create each image for each city, but use Location map template. For Malaysia see: Module:Location map/data/Malaysia.

The format is:

Alternatively, if you want to add a map in the infobox, simply add the parameters below:

Examples:
 * Kuching, lat=1.5544, long=110.3546, without caption.


 * Kuala Lumpur, lat=3.1357, long=101.688, with caption (notice that frame is used if caption is defined).

Advanced usage
Images can be composed into layers, including text. These examples take advantage of Location map+, Location map~.


 * Multiple cities on a map with wikilinks.


 * Using different symbols for non-city locator:

Caveats

Location templates sometimes give inaccurate location of markers if the marker size is large and label may not properly aligned. The marker reference is at the top-left, not at the center. More advanced low-level image composition is given in m:Help:Composite images.

Tools and color standardization
From WikiProject Maps. If your are using Microsoft Paint, on the navigation bar click on "colors" -> "edit colors" -> "define custom colors", then insert numbers under "RGB" below into respective "Red", "Green, and "Blue".

Map templates

 * Reqmap