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This is a route-map template for a road in country. For a key to symbols, see {{ roads legend }} . For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap .
PNG is a lossless, truecolor image format. It is good for all maps and particularly for maps with more than 256 colours. As a pixel-based image, it is more difficult than an SVG image to edit. Some uploaders prefer to work with SVG and then upload a PNG version. SVG is vector graphics format, which has three main advantages:
Image:Map of USA-bw.png – Black and white outlines for states, for the purposes of easy coloring of states. Image:BlankMap-USA-states.PNG – US states, grey and white style similar to Vardion's world maps. Image:Map of USA with county outlines.png – Grey and white map of USA with county outlines.
These SVG maps have user-editable sections (any text editor) to allow creation of more maps on more topics. Just paste in a list of states and values. See examples at Commons:Category:English-language SVG maps of the United States made with templates. Feel free to create map templates for other countries too. Cmglee may be able to help with that.
If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template:template name/doc"), add [[Category:Map templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Map templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last ...
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If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template:template name/doc"), add [[Category:Labelled map templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page.