User:Roke/maps

[edit] Maps

Columbus 1, 2, 3, 4	Shaangxi earthquake	Timor gap	Seleucid Persia
Rio de la plata	Chew valley lake	Niger river	Songhai empire
Mali empire	The Canadas	Greenland counties	Greenland munic.
Saint Martin	Borneo	New Guinea	New Guinea rivers and similar locator maps
Mali	Jutland

recommended atlases

Black, Jeremy. 2001, DK Atlas of World History Dorling Kindersley, New York ISBN 0-7894-4609-X
Haywood, John 2001, Cassell's Atlas of World History Andromeda Oxford Ltd, Oxfordshire ISBN 0-304-35757-X
Overy, Richard, 2006, The Times Complete history of the world Times Books ISBN 0-00-774629-6
Overy, Richard, 2003, The Times. Mapping History. History of the 20th century. ISBN 0-0071-6637-0
The Times History of Europe 3,000 years of History in Maps, 2003 Times Books ISBN 0-0071-3161-5
Kinder, Hermann and Hilgemann, Werner, 2003, Penguin Atlas of World History, Penguin Group, London ISBN 0-141-01263-3
McEvedy, Colin. 1982, Penguin Atlas of Ancient, Medieval, Modern and Recent History, Penguin Books, Middlesex, England ISBN 0-14-0708-34-0
Swift, Michael 2006, Mapping the World, Chartwell Books Inc. ISBN 0-7858-2074-4
Philip's Atlas of World History, 1992, Philip's ISBN 0-540-05677-4
Yenne, Bill 2005 Atlas of North American Railroads, MBI Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, ISBN 0-7603-2299-6

I try to use the standard WikiProject Maps colours where possible:

Color	Hex	RGB	Used for
Black	#000000	0, 0, 0	Primary label color
Brown	#A08070	160, 128, 112	Political borders. Country, state, and province borders should be brown.
Light brown	#D0C0A0	208, 192, 160	Secondary political borders.
Light yellow	#FFFFD0	255, 255, 208	Primary territory of interest, or one of four choices for four-color maps.
Pink	#FFD0D0	255, 208, 208	Another color to be used for four-color maps.
Orange	#F8A20C	248, 162, 12	A third color to be used for four-color maps.
Green	#3CE67B	60, 230, 123	A fourth color to be used for four-color maps.
Light blue	#CEFEF2	206, 254, 242	An alternate color to be used for four-color maps.
Orange	#F7D3AA	247, 211, 170	Alternative color for the above Tan (surrounding territories).
Medium blue	#9EC7F3	158, 199, 243	Bodies of water. Oceans or lakes.
Blue	#1821DE	24, 33, 222	Water borders, if necessary. For lake or ocean borders that need a color contrasting with surrounding land, or for rivers.
Red	#B00000	176, 0, 0	Points of interest. Cities, especially.
Red-orange	#F07568	240, 117, 104	Alternative color for the above Red (points of interest).
Medium red	#E0584E	224, 88, 78	Border color for areas highlighted in Red-orange
Green	#A0F090	160, 240, 144	Parks or natural preservation areas