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The International Map of the World (IMW; also the Millionth Map of the World, after its scale of 1:1 000 000) was a project to create a complete map of the world according to internationally agreed standards. It was first proposed by the German geographer Albrecht Penck in 1891. The Central Bureau of the Map of the World was established in London.
The aim of WikiProject Maps is to improve the quality of maps across the Wikimedia Foundation. The Maps for Wikipedia page is an overview of different formats and tools for maps available on Wikipedia. The Map conventions page provides advice for creating and improving maps. The Map workshop page can be used to add your map requests and your ...
Blank maps derived from OMC. A web interface by Martin Weinelt – It generates maps using GMT (The Generic Mapping Tools), from public domain vector data. The resulting maps should be in the public domain. These maps show elevation and main rivers, but no modern boundaries.
World map. A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
The parameters align (left, center, or, by default, right) and size (default 300px width) may be used to set the template's horizontal position and the image's size per, respectively, the Location and Size entries here.
Atlas portal. The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Clickable world map/doc. ( edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox ( create | mirror) and testcases ( create) pages. Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template. Categories: Map templates.
This template is used to display a clickable world map to help users navigate a large list of countries by continent. Include the following where you want the map to appear: {{world image map}} The image map assumes that in-page links to all the continents exist, e.g., #Africa, and in some cases, individual countries, e.g., #Canada. As time ...
Download QR code; Wikidata item; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; Appearance. ... World map showing metrication, color-coded by year of conversion.