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Example on a topographical map, and how it would look in the real world. Typical draw, Little Carpathians. A draw, sometimes known as a re-entrant in orienteering, is a terrain feature formed by two parallel ridges or spurs with low ground in between them. The area of low ground itself is the draw, and it is defined by the spurs surrounding it.
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.
The NASA WorldWind satellite images in the The Landsat Global Mosaic (except for i-3 visible layer), Blue Marble, and the USGS layers are in the public domain and are therefore fully compatible with Wiki use rights. These can readily be used as the lowest Terrain Layer or as a trace from which to draw the Terrain Layers.
Wikipedia:Blank maps; User:Brion VIBBER/Maps and images for Wikipedia (out to date page, no longer needed) Libre Map Project boundary maps - Blank boundary maps for all 50 United States including state, county, and county subdivisions in PNG and SVG formats. (helpful) See also. Location maps (2008 international recommendations for location maps)
In creating geographical maps for Wikipedia, it is often useful to have high-quality source material such as blank outline maps, Adobe Photoshop or GIMP-format images with layers, SVG files and so on. If you have such source material that you think may be helpful to other map authors, please feel free to upload it to Wikipedia and list it here.
The aim of WikiProject Maps is to improve the quality of maps across the Wikimedia Foundation. The Maps for Wikipedia page is an overview of different formats and tools for maps available on Wikipedia. The Map conventions page provides advice for creating and improving maps. The Map workshop page can be used to add your map requests and your ...
Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.
Picture tutorial: The best way to add your pictures to articles; Maps and images for Wikipedia; Coloring cartographic maps; Keep in mind that images can contain hidden data and that you might want to remove the hidden data before publishing the images. Text can be overlaid onto images using Template:Annotated image or Template:Annotated image 4.