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  2. Typography (cartography) - Wikipedia

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    The software that is commonly used to create maps, including both geographic information systems and graphic design programs, provide a number of options for creating, editing, and storing the hundreds or even thousands of labels in a map. Each of these has advantages and disadvantages for particular situations.

  3. Wikipedia : WikiProject Maps/Conventions/Historical maps

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    The map maker have to color the background (ocean, land, rivers, subject area) to the Locator maps conventional colours. To create up on areas, the map maker is suggested to use Areas maps colours. For labels and icons, please see below. Note: the main tool for this style should be the file Maps_template-history_patch-en.svg.

  4. Prague 6 - Wikipedia

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    Prague 6, officially known as the Municipal District of Prague 6 (Městská část Praha 6), is the largest district in Prague.Located in the northwest, it covers 41.54 km 2 and had a population of 100,600 as of 31 December 2008.

  5. Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Label printer - Wikipedia

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    Brother P-Touch 540 label printer. A label printer is a computer printer that prints on self-adhesive label material and/or card-stock (tags). A label printer with built-in keyboard and display for stand-alone use (not connected to a separate computer) is often called a label maker. Label printers are different from ordinary printers because ...

  7. List of cartographers - Wikipedia

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    Abraham Bradley's U.S. postal route map of 1804 Moule's map of the hundreds of Monmouthshire, c. 1831 A 1912 map of the Russian Empire by Yuly Shokalsky. Robert Aitken of Beith. born c. 1786; Carlo de Candia (1803–1862), Italian cartographer, created the large maritime map of Sardinia in 1: 250,000 scale, travel version.

  8. Cartographic design - Wikipedia

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    In order to convey the message of the map, the creator must design it in a manner which will aid the reader in the overall understanding of its purpose. The title of a map may provide the "needed link" necessary for communicating that message, but the overall design of the map fosters the manner in which the reader interprets it. [20]

  9. Automatic label placement - Wikipedia

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    Automatic label placement, sometimes called text placement or name placement, comprises the computer methods of placing labels automatically on a map or chart. This is related to the typographic design of such labels .