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The Google Maps pin showing a location in the Google Maps app Google Maps logo as of 2020 The pin in Google headquarters, next to a Google Maps Street View vehicle. The Google Maps pin is the inverted-drop-shaped icon that marks locations in Google Maps. The pin is protected under a U.S. design patent as "teardrop-shaped marker icon including a ...
The pin is a simple pointer with a bubble top which tapers to a narrow point with a drop shadow. A Google spokesperson told the New York Times that Rasmussen avoided using a star or dot on the map, because they would obscure too much of the map. The Google Maps Pin touches the map only at the exact point of the location. [10]
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.
The maps you've provided show completely different boundaries to the old local government areas which haven't existed since 1989. I didn't suggest a specific map of Auckland because I don't see one on Commons best suited for the task: would be best if higher resolution but the low resolution may cause issues with drawing boundaries.
Category:Wikipedia maps - for map work, help, templates, etc.. Portal:Atlas/ Wikimedia Atlas; Upload, to upload your free work. When adding maps to articles, you have two options; you can add a separate map, or add a geo-referenced template that links to several maps depending on the reader's preference. Blank resources
Case 1: You can draw it completely in SVG, like the Mali map. Case 2: ({location maps+} Case 3: make an external google maps. Yug (talk) 15:13, 15 September 2012 (UTC) Case 4: Some random pushpin maps images from the web), but you can suggest us a convention on the same principle that our other Map Conventions.
Template:Map requested, a way to request a map be created for an article on its talk page; Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop, a place to request a map be created for a Wikipedia article; commons:Commons:Graphic Lab/Map workshop, a place to request a map be created for Wikimedia Commons
Mapbox is an American provider of custom online maps for websites and applications such as Foursquare, Lonely Planet, the Financial Times, The Weather Channel, Instacart, and Strava. [3] Since 2010, it has rapidly expanded the niche of custom maps, as a response to the limited choice offered by map providers such as Google Maps. [3]