File talk:Donetskrepublic.svg

colors

fix the colors for russia, right now the bottom right is the same color as ukraine --Львівське (говорити) 22:26, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

No, At rightdown corner colour is grey. All fine. ← Alex Great ^talk_rus? 03:37, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

@Alex Great: perhaps the LNR should be a separate color? Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 00:32, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

@Magog the Ogre: What are you talking about? Why? Is a part (partly) of Ukraine de-facto. LNR controlled not full Lugansk Oblast, territory is unstable. This version of map is very good. ← Alex Great ^talk_rus? 04:54, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Lugansk Oblast,
Ukraine

Zaporozh
Oblast,
Ukraine

Dnepro-
petrovsk
Oblast,
Ukraine

Kharkiv
Oblast,
Ukraine

Rostov Oblast,
Russia

Russia

Taganrog Bay, Azov Sea

Обновление

В связи с наступлением армии ДНР, требуется обновить карту. Примерную расстановку сил на данный момент я загрузил сюда: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Карта_боевых_действий_ДНР.svg — 以上未签名的留言是由该用户加入的： DenXs (留言 • 贡献) 08:19, August 29, 2014‎ (UTC)

Зачем загрузили новую карту? Обновили бы эту сами. ← Alex Great ^talk_rus? 03:21, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

 完成. ← Alex Great ^talk_rus? 03:29, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

How to create a map like this?

Hello, Wiki crew!

Firstly, sorry for my imperfect English - I am not a native speaker.

I will try to be brief as possible. I am doing something like dissertation (on lower level) and my topic is "Unrecognized countries and territorial disputes". My goal is to create maps very similar to this "Donetskrepublic" as an attachment of the work. So I have downloaded QGIS and shapefile layers of administrative areas of the countries and coloured the regions controlled by rebels (e.g. Donetsk Republic).

Now I want to export these maps so that the unrecognized countries my work is focused on are well-marked and highlighted. I find the Wiki solution (simple, grey background just with borders) very elegant but there lies the problem - I need a shapefile (and open source, if possible :-) version of these amazing background maps in order to import them to my QGIS project.

So here are my questions: 1) Where can I find the shapefiles of the Wiki (or similar) background maps? Or is there a way how to get the .shp layer from the .svg file? 2) Is there a better and more efficient way how to do this kind of maps (e.g. in a different programm)? Or simply, how do you create the great maps like this one?

I would be very grateful for any instruction, advice or tip! Have a nice day!

František Kopřiva

P.S. I will check this "Talk" section but you can also answer me via e-mail (frantisek-kopriva(at)seznam.cz) in order to avoid this off-topic Q&A and delete my question.

I don't know how to work in QGIS. I'm only work in Inkscape and Notepad++. You can ask guys from English Graphic Lab or Deutch Graphic Lab. And also you can find some maps (and its authors) in this category. ← Aléxi̱s Spoudaíos ^talk_rus? 09:04, 13 January 2015 (UTC)