Communities

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps
• Wikipedia:Graphics Lab | commons:Wikipedia:Graphics Lab
  • Map workshop
• meta:Wikimaps User Group active in 2021. As of 2022-10-29, no activities in 2022.

Dashboard

• /dashboard status of requests

Help

• Conventions: SVG template with icons; Location maps; Locator maps (blank); Orthographic maps; Area maps

• Wikipedia:Maps for Wikipedia more on {{ Maplink}} automating and other discussions

• Icons to use with {{ Maplink}}

Books

• Garfield, Simon (2012). "On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does". Profile Books.

Discussion

• Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Using maps as sources from 19 March 2023

CRS

• North American Datum - NAD83 zone 18 N for New York City
• Gall–Peters projection#Peters world map controversy
• Gauss-Kruger coordinate system also known as Transverse Mercator projection - delivers high accuracy in zones less than a few degrees in east-west extent.

Tutorials

• Wikipedia:Creating route maps from OpenStreetMap data using {{ Maplink}} with OSM data including routes. See New River (Belize).
• User:JaneVannin/translations/topographic translation from fr-en (last updated in 2011-12-18)
• steps for creating from DEM files in NASA SRTM format using 3DEM and GRASS GIS software
• Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Resources/Change the colors of a country

People

• Harrison, Richard Edes (1901–1994) scientific illustrator and cartographer
• Berghaus, Heinrich (1797–1884) German cartographer, surveys of Prussia
• Horthemels,Louise-Magdeleine (1686–1767)
• Kaufmann, Obi (b. 1973), author and illustrator of The California Field Atlas
• Lambton, William (c1753–1823)
• Malègue, Hippolyte Hippolyte Malègue (Q55837130) missing Wikipedia article as of Jan 2023

Best examples

• 
  Carte comparative des principales altitudes de la France par département by Hippolyte Malègue (Q55837130) (1897)
• 
  map of the villages of Veur and Leidschendam (NL) province of South Holland, Netherlands (1812-1819) by Dl. Munro van Filpen & Willem Jacob van Campen (Q98520516)
• 
  Great Trigonometrical Survey by Lambton
• 
  Hadrian's Wall on Ordinance Survey (1964, 2010)
• 
  Harrison's World Island (1944), maps in Fortune and published works at "David Rumsey Map Collection".
• 
  NYS relief from topography: ETOPO1 by National Atlas
• 
  Port-Royal-des-Champs, 18th-century axonometric plan engraving by Horthemels (c. 1710)
• 
  Trans-Karakoram Tract, map of Kashmir region created by US CIA (2004); altered by Fowler & fowler
• 
  map of Trier and surroundings (1692) by Nicolas de Fer
• 
  Yellow River#Characteristics basin by Pline representing Yellow River (Q7355)

• The Klamath River from The California Field Atlas by Kaufmann (non-free image not allowed outside of article)

Tools

• bboxfinder.com bounding box
• Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) - toolbox for Earth, Ocean, and Planetary Science, see paper "The Generic Mapping Tools Version 6" Wessel (2019) doi: 10.1029/2019GC008515
• GeoJson.io - building and testing geojson
• commons:User:ShareMap
• mapshaper from "Scale and generalization". axismaps.com.
• Gunn Map - creating thematic maps from loaded data
• NASA WorldWind

Templates

• {{ GL Map reply}}  - helpful reply to requestor
• {{ Map}} - replace the {{ Information}} in summery that gets applied by upload wizard
• {{ Map conventions}} - footer for WP Map pages
• {{ Annotated image}} -

Terms

• Fluvial processes, see Gulch
• Gazetteer - dictionary
• Gulch - needs more details, plus topo map. Add topo maps from Canada's National Topographic System (NTS). See listing of gulches in Canada "Geographic Terms". geonames.nrcan.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2011-09-26.. There are 3 types listed in this source:
  • Type 1: Deep, steeply graded, V-shaped valley. Examples: Grub Gulch, B.C., 53°02′N 121°42′W / 53.033°N 121.700°W / 53.033; -121.700 (93 H/4); Gold Bottom Gulch, Y.T., 63°54′N 138°59′W / 63.900°N 138.983°W / 63.900; -138.983 (115 N & O); Bears Paw Gulch, Man., 49°39′N 98°53′W / 49.650°N 98.883°W / 49.650; -98.883 (62 G/10) and Arch Gulch, N.S., 45°21′N 64°52′W / 45.350°N 64.867°W / 45.350; -64.867(21 H/7)
  • Type 2: Narrow cove with steep shoreline. Examples: Guys Gulch, N.L., 49°33′N 53°49′W / 49.550°N 53.817°W / 49.550; -53.817 (2 F/12); Bear Gulch, N.L., 49°44′N 56°48′W / 49.733°N 56.800°W / 49.733; -56.800 (12 H/10)
  • Type 3: Saltwater channel. Example: Camp Island Gulch, N.S., 44°53′N 62°09′W / 44.883°N 62.150°W / 44.883; -62.150 (11 D/16)
• Hogback (geology), for example in Colorado Dakota Formation and Grand Hogback, draw 3D diagrams
• Slough (hydrology) wetland, could feed into a lake

North America

USA Regions

• Northeast /usa-region-ne

Iowa

• Iowa Great Lakes

- East Okoboji Lake: OSM Way (113411373) - West Okoboji Lake: OSM - Spirit Lake

North Carolina

• Durham: Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Durham, Durham County, North Carolina.

1913

• Plate 45, image 48
  • White Rock Baptist Church
  • St. Joseph's A.M.E. Church on Fayetteville and St. Joseph St

• Plate 46, image 49
  • St. John's Baptist Church
  • Lincoln Hospital at E. Proctor and Cozart St

• Plat 56, image 59
  • Primitive Baptist Church on E. Pettigrew

1937

• Plate 1, image 2
  • North Carolina Mutual Life on W. Parrish St.
  • Washington Duke Hotel (unknown if related to Black Wall Street?)

• Plate 203, image 67
  • Hayti - district with many black owned business in early 20th century (see article below)

Articles:

• Black Wall Street (Durham, North Carolina)
• Hayti, Durham, North Carolina

Wisconsin

• Lake Superior improve leading photo: Both existing images have cloud cover, view of Earh from ISS and File:LS-MetOp-B.png, replace with Landsat 9 image without clouds

New Jersey

• /world-series-birding
• /nj-hudson

New York

NYC - General

• New York State Birding Trail: list of places "NYS Birding Trail Locations" "DEC Announces Grand Opening of First Segment of New York State Birding Trail". October 7, 2021., create a map for them? It seems like it's a dynamic list, Add to Birding in New York City?

• Council Districts /nyc-council-districts
  • Performance analysis of putting zoom of each district (2 March 2021)

• Historic Districts /nyc-historic-districts

• Monuments /nyc-monuments

• Trees /nyc-trees-by-size

• U. S. Congressional Districts change over time. How to best capture these changes? See New York's 10th congressional district. (a). in Commons, geocoordinates to specific district as Commons Data.map; then (b) in WD use qualifiers to define data ranges for the defined polygons.

NYC - The Bronx

• /wildlife-bronx
• /neighborhoods-in-the-bronx

NYC - Brooklyn

• Coney Island

Use Commons Category:Sanborn maps of Brooklyn > Category:Sanborn maps of Brooklyn published in 1906 (or 1908?)

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1904-1908 at LOC

• Volume 13 sanborn05791_025
  • Sea Gate in plate 1 to 5
  • Steeplechase Park sheet 21 (image 23) Commons
  • Dreamland sheet 24 (image 29) Commons
  • Luna park in sheet 26 (image 33) Commons
• Volume 14

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1915-1933

• not complete at LOC

Atlas of borough of Brooklyn at NYPL Digital Collection

• Volume 3, plates 14, 15, 16 including Luna Park

Wonder Wheel Park built in 1920

• Gowanus Canal

Gowanus Canal development of 1888 map from Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. Sanborn Map Company, 1886-1888: - Volume 1,plate 25, image 51 image 52; plate 26, Image 53 and Image 54; plate 27 image 56; plate 28 image 58; plate 29 image 59 image 60

- Volume 6, plate 138, image 7 and image 8

• Newtown Creek /newtown-creek-brooklyn

• Prospect Park

- Concert Grove Pavilion, 153, East Drive, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, 11225 40°39′34″N 73°57′51″W / 40.65934°N 73.96414°W / 40.65934; -73.96414

NYC - Manhattan

• Bazzini - nut company on 339 Greenwich at Jay street, see map Sanborn Map Company, 1890 - 1902, Vol. 1, (1894) sheet 17
• Land of the Blacks - see my page of maps: /nyc-land-of-the-blacks-manhattan
• Lower Manhattan expansion - maps : /nyc-lower-manhattan-expansion
• Seneca Village - my maps /nyc-seneca-village-central-park

NYC - Queens

• Steinway Village (circa 1880) in Astoria, Queens

NYS

• Rivers and waterways /nys-rivers
• New York State Wildlife Management Areas, need a map? ; List of National Wildlife Refuges of the United States#New York ; Tug Hill WMA in Montague, New York; Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (added 2022-08-10)

Oklahoma

• Greenwood District, Tulsa#Black Wall Street

Asia

Stone Tower

On the Silk Road, Stone Tower (Ptolemy)

1 2 3 4 5

1 Tashkent 2 Daroot-Korgon 3 Sulaiman-Too 4 Erkeshtam 5 Tashkurgan

Tibet

See sample maps on subpage: /Tibet.

Used the Tactical Pilotage Chart Series.

Europe

Croatia

• /zagreb-crnomerec

England

• Domesday Book survey of England from 1086

Italy

• /Venice - Palaces of Venice

Middle East

Survey of Palestine

Select images with annotations:

File:Survey of Palestine 1942-1958 1-100,000 14Rafa.jpg

File:Survey of Palestine 1942-1958 1-100,000 17Nitsana.jpg

Turkey

• /turkey

Oceania

New Zealand

Christchurch

• Christchurch mosque shootings
  • Christchurch Hospital at -43.5344, 172.6255
  • Linwood Islamic Centre at -43.532389, 172.672556
  • Al Noor Mosque, Christchurch at -43.532944, 172.611722

Wellington Region

• Wellington Region request

Follow-up on Old revision of Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop/Archive/Aug 2021#Request: Location Map of Wellington, New Zealand 2021-09-08 from GL/Map Workshop request

Notes