Category:Maps

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Contents 1 About this Category 2 See also 3 Resources 4 Subcategories, pages, and media

[edit] About this Category

This category is a main category. This category requires frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. If you have created and/or uploaded, or if you know what the content of one media file in this category is about, please put it in the right subcategory below by changing the category. As many pictures and media files as possible should be moved into the right subcategory. New subcategories can be created. Search for more categories here.

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This category's subcategories are for geographically-based maps. The top-level map categories are for the overall categories of countries, cities, continents, regions, oceans, seas, etc..

See the subcategory Category:Maps by theme for many additional, geographically-based maps covering topography, other geographic features, biology, history, economics, politics, religion, population, ethnography, disease, weather, celestial maps, music, sports, etc.. See also the Atlas index. Atlases are organized and commented collections of geographical, political and historical maps.

• "Maps of..." implies modern, recently-made maps. Please use Category:Old maps and its subcategories for maps made at least 70 years ago.
• See Category:Maps by type for technical aspects, use Category:SVG maps for any vector graphics, Category:Map templates for working material (blank maps, language-neutral maps, ..), see also Category:Cartography for map projections, map symbols and so on

Please help categorize the maps in the media section at the end. See meta:Help:Category. Please add maps to the subcategories below. Click the plus (+) signs to explore the subcategories in the nested directories below. There are many inadequately categorized maps in the subcategories too.

See also Category:Earth sciences, especially Category:Geography, Category:Cartography and Category:Demography. There are many maps in their subcategories that need to be categorized in map categories. See also local categories, as en:Category:Maps.

[edit] See also

Do not sort in here:

• For other types of maps, such as mathematical mappings, please use another category, such as Category:Architectural plans or Category:Diagrams. For genealogical maps see: Category:Family trees. Category:Astronomical maps contains boths maps and star charts.
• See also: Category:Satellite pictures and Category:Aerial photographs – maplike images, no maps (but see Category:Geographic Overlays for combining them)

[edit] Resources

• Category:Commons maps - A map work category with many resources.
• en:Category:Wikipedia maps - The map work category at English Wikipedia.
• Perry-Castañeda Library. The Map Collection [1] is in the public domain (see FAQ: [2]).
• Free blank maps of countries and continents at geography.about.com: [3]
• U.S. Library of Congress maps: [4]. Public domain info: [5].
• CIA reference maps: [6]. Public domain info: {{PD-USGov-CIA}} and {{PD-USGov-CIA-WF}} from Commons:Copyright tags#United States.
• United Nations Cartographic Section Web Site: [7]. Public domain info: Commons:Copyright tags#United Nations and {{UN map}}
• Maps and Graphics library [8] of the United Nations Environment Programme.
• Government Maps [9]. Paul V. Galvin Library at Illinois Institute of Technology.
• UC Atlas of Global Inequality. Home page [10]: "All these materials can be used freely providing they are attributed to the UC Atlas of Global Inequality." University of California, Santa Cruz
• Please upload more public-domain maps to the commons!
• To request new or improved maps:
• en:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Images to improve - Creates maps, too.
• en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration - Ask project members for help.
• en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Illustration - Ask at this talk page.
• fr:Wikipédia:Atelier graphique/Cartes - Specific page of the French Graphic Lab for map creation or modification.

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