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2. Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps - Wikipedia

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   WikiProject Maps encourages the creation of free maps and their upload on Wikimedia Commons. On the project's pages can be found advice, tools, links to resources, and map conventions. The project suggests some web-friendly map conventions that may help to make maps more readable.

3. Wikipedia : WikiProject Maps/Conventions/Orthographic maps

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   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

4. Wikipedia:Blank maps - Wikipedia

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   Image:BlankMap-World.png – World map, Robinson projection centered on the meridian circa 11°15' to east from the Greenwich Prime Meridian. Microstates and island nations are generally represented by single or few pixels approximate to the capital; all territories indicated in the UN listing of territories and regions are exhibited.

5. Template:Continents of Earth - Wikipedia

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   Template documentation This template's initial visibility currently defaults to autocollapse , meaning that if there is another collapsible item on the page (a navbox, sidebar , or table with the collapsible attribute ), it is hidden apart from its title bar; if not, it is fully visible.

6. World map - Wikipedia

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   A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection . Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth.

7. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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   Projects the globe onto an octahedron with symmetrical components and contiguous landmasses that may be displayed in various arrangements. 1975 Cahill–Keyes projection: Polyhedral Compromise Gene Keyes: Projects the globe onto a truncated octahedron with symmetrical components and contiguous land masses that may be displayed in various ...