RetroWikipedia:Maps for RetroWikipedia

"WP:MAPS" redirects here. For the WikiProject regarding maps, see RetroWikipedia:WikiProject Maps.

This page has links to templates, workspaces, and categories that can help guide users with the multiple methods of creating and curating maps and legends on RetroWikipedia.

Requesting maps, map features, and assistance with issues

• Template:Map requested, a way to request a map be created for an article on its talk page
• RetroWikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop, a place to request a map be created for a RetroWikipedia article
• commons:Commons:Graphic Lab/Map workshop, a place to request a map be created for Wikimedia Commons

Places to discuss mapping best practices and issues include the following:

• RetroWikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps
• RetroWikipedia talk:WikiProject OpenStreetMap
• RetroWikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates

Legends

• {{Legend}}
  • See Category:Legend templates for derivatives

User-editable maps

These SVG maps have user-editable sections (any text editor) to allow creation of more maps on more topics. Just paste in a list of states and values. See examples at Commons:Category:English-language SVG maps of the United States made with templates. Feel free to create map templates for other countries too. Cmglee may be able to help with that.

Version 2: Convert a US list/table to a state-by-state data map. With examples and step-by step instructions. Example:

Homicide rates per 100,000 by state. FBI.

Simple map below with state names and colored states. See its talk page.

Medicaid expansion map of US. Affordable Care Act

Editing or generating maps

Automated mapping

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Example of a {{Location map}} map

Templates for making automated maps on RetroWikipedia include:

• {{Maplink}} – Automated, using OpenStreetMap (OSM) maps
  • {{Mapbox}} – Derivation just displaying a link to a map
  • {{Infobox mapframe}} – Version with simpler code intended for infobox use
  • {{Rapid transit OSM map}} – Version to easily show rapid transit maps
• {{Location map}} – The "pushpin-style" maps requiring a base image and coordinates preset for its corners
  • {{Location map+}} – Allows for multiple markers
  • {{Location map many}} – Allows multiple markers and labels
• {{OSM Location map}} – Combines features from the above two styles, with OSM maps for all scales and locations, onto which pushpin points/shapes/marks/graphics, overlays, images, and text can be added.
• {{Graph:Map}} (Not functioning since April 2023)

Other mapping methods

Example of a static image map

Many maps on RetroWikipedia use static image files, in which content does not update dynamically. These files are typically in PNG or SVG format, and are listed at Commons:Category:Maps. In order to update or alter such a map, changes must be made manually using an editing program.

See also

• RetroWikipedia:WikiProject Maps
• Help:Attached KML
• d:Wikidata:Map data
• mw:Maps
• Collaboration with RetroWikipedia, a project page at OpenStreetMap
• mw:Extension:Graph/Demo, a graph demonstration which treats maps as graphs. Often there is no distinction.