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This page provides conventions for the creation of
orthographic maps
. Orthographic maps display a country (or set of countries) on a globe representation of the world. Like location maps, orthographic maps are very basic, and should have very few, if any, labels. Maps should be centred on the subject of interest.
Usage:
These maps are often used in country infoboxes
Template:Infobox Country
to demonstrate where a country is in the world.
Where:
These maps can be found on
Wikimedia Commons
,
Grey-green orthographic projections maps
.
Tutorial:
there
(perl), or
there
Generative tool:
Online on ObservableHQ, on the left of the map, click ≪?
?
?≫ then ≪?Download SVG?≫:
Convention for orthographic maps.
Subject
|
Colorimetry
(RGB/hex)
|
Toponyms (names)
|
|
|
Subject's area (country, province, state, etc.) ?
|
|
Subject border
|
|
Other areas part of the same political unity
|
#C6DEBD
R:198 G:222 B:189
|
Claimed uncontrolled areas
|
|
Outside area
|
#B9B9B9
R:185 G:185 B:185
|
Other borders
|
#FFFFFF
R:255 G:255 B:255
|
Ocean, sea, lake
|
#FFFFFF
R:255 G:255 B:255
|
Border of the globe
|
#AAAAAA
R:170 G:170 B:170
|
Naming (upload):
- File:
{Country name in English} (orthographic projection).svg
- Or possibly
File:
{ISO 3-letter Country code} orthographic.svg
|
Further needs:
Dimensions:
550x550 pixels.
Border of the globe:
1.5 pixels.
Latitude/longitude grid:
.3 pixels in black with 77 in the transparency value.
Coasts and borders of countries:
.3 pixels.
Legend:
not needed.
Scale:
not needed (since misleading). Scale is non-linear across the globe
Projections:
Orthographic projection
Gradient:
File:Orthographic gradient.svg
|
To identify where a country is with respect to other nearby countries that the viewer may know about.
The first of these maps was uploaded to
Wikimedia Commons
by
User:Ssolbergj
in
2008
.
These conventions are from
Commons:Grey-green orthographic projections maps
, although maps are not [yet] consistent in presentation style.
Discuss proposed improvements
.
Two different orthographic color schemes have widespread usages within Wikipedias and Wikimedia websites.
- Grey?green orthographic projections maps scheme
- SVG locator maps of countries (globe location map scheme)