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This page provides conventions for the creation of orthographic maps. Orthographic maps display a country (or set of countries) on a globe representation of the world. Like location maps, orthographic maps are very basic, and should have very few, if any, labels. Maps should be centred on the subject of interest.
File:{Country name in English} location map.svg; File:{Country name in English} {Sub-division name in English} location map.svg; and so on, but please focus your energy on countries first. Further needs: Legend: not needed. Scale: not needed (since misleading), acceptable for <200km large/high maps.
Template:Location map; Template:Location map many; Template:Location map+; Template:Location map~ Maps can be searched for at Commons:Category:Location maps by country. Icons can be found at Commons:Category:Map icons. These tricks are sometimes useful: Comment: <!--comment-->
The default is no background colour, which shows the map image behind the label. mark: The name of an image file to display as the identifying mark; the default is Red pog.svg (). See examples at Commons:Location markers and Commons:Category:Map icons. marksize: The size of the identifying mark in pixels; the default is 8. Do not include px.
Create a new map image and upload it to Wikimedia commons or find an existing map on the same site. Create a module named Module:Location map/data/location, copy the content below into it and substitute the appropriate values. Create a page named Module:Location map/data/location/doc and follow the instructions under #Documentation.
Inset maps may be used with in locator maps so that the location can be seen in a wider context; the subject being located within larger-scale map (the local map), accompanied by a smaller scale map of the country or wider region (the wide map). Two versions are commonly seen: The wide map in an inset within the local map;
WampServer refers to a solution stack for the Microsoft Windows operating system, created by Romain Bourdon and consisting of the Apache web server, OpenSSL for SSL support, MySQL database and PHP programming language.
The {{Location map}}, {{Location map many}}, and {{Location map+}} templates have parameters to specify an alternative map image. The map displayed as image1 can be used with the relief or AlternativeMap parameters. Examples may be found below or in the following: Template:Location map#Relief parameter; Template:Location map+/relief