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The use of JPEG is discouraged, since it is a lossy compression format and so will result in a blurry map or diagram. The quality of GIF images is better than JPEG. GIF images allow for the creation of animations. PNG is a lossless, truecolor image format. It is good for all maps and particularly for maps with more than 256 colours.
In Wikimedia Commons, create a page in the Data: namespace with the .map extension, like Data:COTA10.map; When you create the page, replace the 'Data' placeholder (including the two brackets) with the GeoJSON you copied. Uncomment the line "license": "ODbL-1.0", // ODC Open Database License v1.0 and save the page.
In order to create an interactive map in an article, you need to have one of the below forms of data: coordinates, either supplied or from Wikidata; a Wikidata ID for a shape or linear element; data stored in GeoJSON format in a data file; raw GeoJSON, preferably transcluded from another page
Copy a bitmap map into SVG Centre or crop an image: fr: Inkscape or The Gimp Centre or crop an image Level 1 tutorials media:Tutorial-cartography_(basic).svg: Inkscape Introduction to vector map making with Inkscape: download, open with Inkscape and follow the exercises Create and color map zones: fr: Inkscape Create and color map zones freehand.
The caption which will appear below the image if one is required. map: The name of the location map to be displayed. See Map display methods. To use a static image, use |map_image= map_image: The file name of a static map image to be displayed. To use a location map, use |map=. map_width: Width to display the map image in pixels.
A tiled web map, slippy map [1] (in OpenStreetMap terminology) or tile map is a map displayed in a web browser by seamlessly joining dozens of individually requested image or vector data files. It is the most popular way to display and navigate maps, replacing other methods such as Web Map Service (WMS) which typically display a single large ...
22. The map is ready for export. Go to the PrinterPlugIn (File -> Print -> As Map To Printer, Image, PDF (Cadplan) or the Printer icon from the top menu bar). Set the scale to 1 : 4 000 000. Add the "Furniture" (North arrow and map scale). In the map scale menu set the Value Scale to 1000. Go to Save Image and save the map as PDF.
A larger overlay image (with a transparent background) can be used to show particular features not included in the base map, such as a town's former walls (see the adjacent map, whic is using [[File:Leicester Town Walls map overlay.svg]] ). Such images can be created in several ways (such as tracing over a copy of the base map); they are ...