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Image:Newworldmap-alt.png – Version of Image:BlankMap-World-alt.png, but with bodies of water coloured blue and white land masses. 1488 x 755. Image:BlankMap-World-v2.png – Version of Image:BlankMap-World.png , but with sovereign microstates (i.e., under 2 500 km² in area) represented as circles to facilitate identification and colourising.
Template:Alberta Special Areas Labelled Map; Template:Algerian Ligue 1 labelled map; Template:Alps orography; Template:Argentina imagemap with province names; Template:Arizona County Labelled Map; Template:Arkansas County Labelled Map; Template:Armenia Labelled Map; Template:Artaani Labelled Map; Template:ASEAN Labelled Map (blue) Template:Asia ...
Blank political world map with blue oceans, fit to replace File:A large blank world map with oceans marked in blue.PNG. Date: 25 July 2006: Source: World Map Blank.svg: Author: Petr Dlouhý: Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Carte Coffea robusta arabic.svg; Hantaviren weltweit.svg; OttomanEmpireIn1683.png
Maps are useful in presenting key facts within a geographical context and enabling a descriptive overview of a complex concept to be accessed easily and quickly. 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.
English: Versions of the Maps template, a toolbox helping wiki-mapmakers and contains icons and formatted text/objects that serve as a template for Wikipedia map conventions. The French version is the 'mother one', the first to be updated, and is frequently improved and updated following calm talks between mapmakers.
{{Image label begin | image = Australia location map recolored.png | alt = Australia map. Western Australia in the west third with capital Perth, Northern Territory in the north center with capital Darwin, Queensland in the northeast with capital Brisbane, South Australia in the south with capital Adelaide, New South Wales in the northern southeast with capital Sydney, and Victoria in the far ...
Most of these conventions are supported by active groups of map makers, and have been created and improved through long and serious discussions. The main intentions are: to display efficiently selected data; to create screen, web, print, creation & share friendly maps; to create a wiki style free of nationalism issues.