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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
Create a test map in your sandbox. You'll need to use {} together with the Wikidata ID of the shape. As an example: {{maplink|frame=yes|type=shape|id=Q160236}} If it displays, great. You can use the map and add parameters to make it display to your liking. If the map data does not populate, the below methods are straight-forward and reliable:
Demonstration of how to create a map using layers: 1.Valley ; 2.Plain ; 3.Hills ; 4.Rivers ; 5.Troops ; 6.Moves ; 7.Text ; 8.Thumbnail map ; 9.Legend. 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 ...
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps#PDF map conversion to SVG; Before learning how to convert PDF images to SVG images it may be useful to learn how to extract images from PDF documents and create PNG, GIF, and JPG images. By using Adobe Reader many images in PDF documents can be right-clicked, copied, and then pasted into any image editor.
A very simple Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki Converter; A free open source tool to convert from CSV and Excel files to wiki table format: csv2other; Spreadsheet-to-MediaWiki-table-Converter This class constructs a MediaWiki-format table from an Excel/GoogleDoc copy & paste. It provides a variety of methods to modify the style.
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.
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 ...
Instead of using the standard 'Red pog' for mark points on the map, other images can be used. Any image from Wikimedia Commons can be specified. The Pentre Ifan example above uses 'Archaeological site icon (red).svg'. If a particular image file is specified in mark1=, all subsequent marks will use it as well unless they name their own image ...