Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Requested and orphan maps

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This page is for listing articles that need maps, as well as for listing orphan maps that do not have a corresponding article.

When making a request, please leave a brief description of the type of map the article needs. Add a signature and timestamp (~~~~) at the end so that you can be contacted if there are any questions about the request.

For other map requests, see Category:Wikipedia requested maps.

For non-map image requests, see Wikipedia:Requested pictures.

For India-related map requests see Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian maps

Contents

[edit] Individual articles

  • Seattle. Image:Seattle_map.png is a fine base, but the creator hasn't been seen on Wikipedia since late 2004 and never finished it. Could really use someone with local expertise to update and add many more points of interest or simply recreate, adding some major arterials and freeways in the process? In the meantime, Seattle lacks a good map, which is a shame. Thanks! --Lukobe 07:02, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
  • March of Brandenburg (I am currently turning that redirect into an article by translating de:Mark Brandenburg) it would be nice if someonce could translate the following map from the German Wikipedia: de:Bild:MarkBrandenburg.png. If you contact me I'll tell you how to translate the geographic terms.--Carabinieri 19:16, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Is it ok if I make a similar map ? Because it will be too messy rubbing out the german text and typing in English. Or else you can ask the original uploader for the map background and it will then be easy to make the English version. Jackaranga 19:47, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
Let me clarify. I'm doing a blank world map showing the borders at the start of Queen Victoria's reign. Her reign began in 1837. Something like this would be great.

[edit] Improvement requests

Improvement requests can also be made to the Graphics Lab.

[edit] Re-creation requests

Note: the following offline images are not available under the GFDL. It is requested that they be re-created and uploaded. These requests were moved from Wikipedia:Image recreation requests. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 20:14, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Batch requests

The following are lists of articles which could use maps created in a systematic fashion.

[edit] Countries

  • I've checked through the list of countries to see that all country articles have 1.) a locator map that shows the position of the country in the world, appearing in the country's infobox at the top of the article, on the right, and 2.) some sort of general orientation map showing major cities, major landforms, boundaries with neighboring countries, etc. These may also show internal political divisions (e.g. provinces) major transportation features, such as roads, rail lines, canals, rivers, and airports, if scale allows. The maps in the CIA World Factbook (barely) satisfy the second requirement, and are public domain, so these could easily be deployed to fill in many gaps. Country maps may also be hidden on that country's subarticles, or elsewhere on the project. These articles are important because the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team is creating offline versions of the encyclopedia based on them. -- Beland 22:17, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unrecognized countries

[edit] Country subdivision maps

The list of country subdivisions is missing maps (and indeed, missing articles) for many countries. -- Beland 19:55, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] United States Municipalities

Coordinated on User:Seth Ilys/Dot Project.

[edit] Cities

Most cities outside of the U.S. could use locator maps similar to those being made as part of the User:Seth Ilys/Dot Project. The following cities had been listed in individual articles above. For Japanese cities they just need to be copied from the Japanese wiki.

  • Qianjiang (China)
  • Saudi Arabian major cities: Khobar, and Qatif; other smaller cities also need maps
    • We could do with consistent maps in each of the 33 London Borough articles showing the extent of the borough, preferably with major roads included. I'm trying to answer questions like "which borough is Tottenham Court Road in?". It's not easy and perhaps not possible at the moment. Oh. Unless I use the categories at the foot of the article. Maps would still be lovely, though.--Tagishsimon (talk) 15:28, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Historical regions of the United States

[edit] Canada

  • Past Canadian electoral districts (including historical provincial, territorial and colonial-era) (Example: Coast Chilcotin) Skookum1 07:54, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
  • I need a base map of the Pacific Northwest, showing only rivers and maybe intl/state boundaries (no cities or other modern stuff). This will be used to construct the variations on the competing Oregon Dispute claims, the routes of the Oregon Trail, the HBC Brigade and Express Routes, various First Nations trails, the Okanagan Trail, Douglas Trail and Cariboo Road, etc.; and other items needing a full-regional map; instead of one "stopping" at the 49th Parallel. Ideally this map should start at about 41 degrees north (just south of the CA-OR/ID-UT boundary and west of Helena or Great Falls (to show part of Alberta). Been looking around the Commons but can't find anything suitable. Skookum1 20:14, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
  • WikiProject British Columbia is looking for many maps that are listed here. KenWalker | Talk 21:52, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Seas, bays, and gulfs of the world

[edit] Europe

  • Historic regions
  • Medieval feudal states of Europe, more specifically: (Aquitaine, Bavaria, Brandenburg, Burgandy, Flanders, Friesland, Ile de France, Provence, Saxony, Toulouse, Connacht, Mide, Munster, etc.)
Can you be more specific? For what dates do you want maps of these states? Or do you want maps, or sets of maps, showing how their borders changed? Maproom 16:02, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
I think most of those have gone into Category:Former country articles requiring a map Kmusser 18:27, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
Prigorodny is done but the other districts still need maps. Kmusser 16:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wars

[edit] Rivers

Most river articles don't have maps yet. See Category:River articles needing maps.

[edit] Railroads

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Maps task force.

[edit] Reservations

Almost none of the articles on Native American reservation have maps. See Category:American Indian reservations.

[edit] Explorers

None of the Age of Discovery explorers have maps! Not even Christopher Columbus! It would be incredibly useful for someone to to make maps of where they went, and perhaps maps of the world with all explorers from a certain time period. However, this is truly a batch rrequest because they all need to be consistant. Don't do only one.

Category: Explorers should give you a place to start. If anyone has a concern, I'm HereToHelp (talk) 13:20, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] History of India

These articles would be using maps based on the same template, hence included in batch requests. This is a part of History of India wikiproject. Help would be highly appreciated.

Forward requests to Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian maps =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:38, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] list:

Routes, Wars, etc.

[edit] Districts of India

  • Shajapur District- map of the district. I'd greatly appreciate it. Raisethirty 21:11, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
I moved this request to the batch section because all the other Districts need maps as well. Basemaps to make these already exist [on commons]. Kmusser 03:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Forward requests to Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian maps =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:38, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sovereign states by year

A World map for each year for the series of articles Sovereign states by year, indicating all the sovereign states and highlighting the changes of each year (a big project, yes). Sobirà 11:33, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Sobirà, world maps are very poor vehicles to show countries: there just isn't enough "bandwidth" to accommodate the necessary data. The problem starts with the fact that the earth's surface is 3/5ths water, so only 40% of the map can be used. Add in problems with projection, and you end up being able to show only the very largest countries, and being relatively unable to label even these adequately. Sorry for the negative opinion, MapMaster 03:00, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
It's an interesting answer, but I've seen lots of political maps of all the globe. Lots of them used this 60% of the sea for letters and magnifications of interesting lands. In the project State leaders by year, leaders are separated by regions. I suppose that in this case could be feasible do the same. I suppose that with this option would be easier recycle maps in different years. Sobirà 15:44, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm working on kind of a similar thing - I'm making maps of each continent by year (or rather, by major change). However, since I'm starting with North America, it's simple so far. ;) --Golbez 14:47, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
You are correct in that the seas etc (unusable space) could be used for names, magnifications, etc. However, to show you the problems involved, take a look at this map of Europe in 800 AD. This map is so big it can't even fit on my screen, and yet some of the names approach unreadable. And this is only one continent, perhaps 8% to 10% of the world's surface. MapMaster 20:13, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
I was thinking in something symilar to the map of List of sovereign states in 820 where you can have a general idea of the situation but if you want to see more details and read the names you have to click on the map and see the high resolution version. I don't see it impossible, or bad. Sobirà 16:36, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphan maps

  • Lupin assisted by his LupinBot has taken up large amounts of Wiki disk space with his GBdot maps. Many of them are currently orphans. I have given my reservations to these maps at User talk:Lupin#Dotty maps. These are mainly the large size of the maps and the unhelpful names. Does anyone share my concerns? -- RHaworth 08:39, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)
    • I agree that they're much too big. If he sized them down they'd be fine for using in UK towns articles, but currently they're of no use to Wikipedia. Polocrunch 18:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Yikes, I agree, those are way too big. I get antsy when my maps pass 50k! --Golbez 21:12, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
  • If there are any Scottish ones in there then they can get deleted. Discussion on infobox maps north of the border took place on the Scottish Wikipedians' notice board a wee while ago and we came up with a standard which is all hosted in a category on the commons. Due to some views that the maps should be high res those ones are ~200k as well, but they do contain a lot more detail than the flat green lupin maps. There are plenty of Scottish lupin maps that are now orphans, and the ones that aren't could do with having new commons maps created. SFC9394 23:10, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
    • That map thumbnail I posted is 32kb--4KB larger than Image:EnglandNottingham.png. If your concern is about having a map for each dot when it can be generated using the HTML I agree. The naming may be off as well. However, I think the detail of the map should be high no matter the size. For instance Image:LocationUSA.svg is over 2MB but in a 250px wide thumbnail it's only 22KB. The Wiki software does a good job of thumbnailing things so we are encouraged to use the highest quality images for those who can use them--I just want to make sure you're not questioning that logic. gren グレン 07:02, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
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