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An example of a cartographic style guide for a particular institution, including typography standards. Typography, as an aspect of cartographic design, is the craft of designing and placing text on a map in support of the map symbols, together representing geographic features and their properties.
Summary tables of each major map convention used in Wikipedia, across all languages. While the conventions are strongly recommended, cartographers are free to fit their specific needs. Each convention has its own sub-page, containing: An introduction explaining the style objectives and the most convenient way to create a such map.
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.
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.
The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold : internationally recognized sovereign states The 193 member states of the United Nations (UN)
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Area maps or distribution maps display one or multiple entities on a map, and are closely link to Locator maps (blank) (mother) providing the background & Historical maps (daughter) providing conventions for associated labels, icons, and legend. Historical label/icons conventions may also be used for other purpose, such as complex biology maps ...
The Anglophone states/English official language clickable map template is an ongoing work-in-progress. While many improvements have been made, including the merge with the Anglophone states template , there is still much work to be done.