Talk:World map

message: The World Map is from 2004 and needs updating - but I don't know the source for the larger (1.8 MB image).
Seccon  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seccon (talk • contribs) 21:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I’m not sure what you mean by “unauthentic”, but yes, the title could at least be informative. I’ll make it informative. Strebe (talk) 21:13, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: World map

message: "Map of the World" should not redirect to this, as there is a very well known novel by that title. Pacian 02:38, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Does it have an article here? --Astrokey44 03:37, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map of the World - the Book 

message: What about another projection, what I call a "Azimuthal Skirt Projection"; taking a view from either the north or south pole like an Azimuthal, though continuing to the opposite pole.
Are you sure you're not thinking of a Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection?  It seems pretty close to what you're talking about, unless I'm missing the point completely.
:☭ Zippanova 05:23, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there such a Projection as this?: 

message: 06 December 2006
WorldMapServer.net continues to strive to provide useful map resources and search tools.  It would like to have itself reconsidered for inclusion in the Wikipedia resources associated with 'World Map.' Middleforkmaps 03:17, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ok sure, ill put it in and see what happens. Im particularly impressed with the country subdivisions which mostly arent on google maps --Astrokey44 04:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  MiddleForkMaps 

message: Is there an (external/internal) link showing world maps created with different kind of map projections so that one can compare them visually. Vjdchauhan 10:15, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: map projection would be a good place to start. ¦ Reisio 13:31, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: World map with different projections

message: This page is in serious need of a "history" section (unless one exists elsewhere on wikipedia?). I wouldn't know where to start with one, but I'd love to read one. --Dtcdthingy 23:46, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: ☭ Zippanova 05:02, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There was recently a big deal about who made the first complete world map.  It was long assumed that it was some European in the 1500s, but it looks like the Chinese had some maps that showed each side of every continent before even Columbus set out.  If someone knows more about that it should defiantly go in the article.  --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 02:00, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  history 

message: Why when i use this map, the black copy, on paint, the only colors i get are white, black, and grey? --Jakezing (talk) 17:18, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can somebody explain 

message: Does anyone knowthe name of the file/image of the exact same world map with blue water & the actual ground tan? Or if anyone knows of a map with a more "accurate" Mediterranean area that would be greatly appreciated.
Kostantino888Z (talk) 21:10, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The Replacement which was replaced

message: Ok, lets face something, the colors are not all the same, If i remember its the northern two pixels of Luxembourg, a small section of Saudi Arabia near UAE and a pixel in Manchuria. Small issues but they've been there for a long time. --Ssteiner209 (talk) 23:54, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Blank Copy of the map 

message: In the first map of the first gallery (the map subtitled Mercator projection in the gallery titled Projections) the Caspian Sea... is missing! Can anybody work on the image and restore in it the Caspian Sea? I personally don't know how to do it... Kintaro-san (talk) 22:27, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing sea... 

message: World Maps
Welcome to the
WORLD MAPS
World Maps is the web where you search for any world map for any part of the world. World Maps has tried to cover the world in various groupings, travel maps showing various destinations within a particular country; and many more map themes. Also you have the possibility to view the FLAGS of the world in our section "World Flags"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.125.251.244 (talk) 06:29, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Welcome to the WORLD MAPS 

message: I added a thumbnail of a blank Pacific-centric map to the article. This Japanese map would be a better example, but unfortunately its license status is unclear. --Keith111 (talk) 05:26, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pacific-centric map 

message: Which is it?
*Is it a World map and a map of the World?
*Or is it a world map and a map of the world?
Although the Earth is normally capitalized, the former nevertheless looks kind of funky to me. I'm inclined to think that the latter is correct: world government rather than World government - but I'm not 100% certain. Or maybe neither is wrong, like color versus colour. --Keith111 (talk) 20:43, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization consistency 

message: Esperanto41 has restored the following links, none of which meet Wikipedia’s guidelines for inclusion. I have deleted them again, and will continue to. These quotes are from External_links#Links_normally_to_be_avoided and other guidelines on that page. Note also that Long lists of links are not acceptable.
* http://www.artlib.ru/index.php?id=11&idp=0&fp=2&uid=532&idg=0&user_serie=1667
This link may qualify, but not on the English edition of Wikipedia.
* http://www.atlapedia.com/online/mapresources.htm
This link is not information about world maps. It is just a commercial site offering a few low resolution world maps for free, plus some advertising. There are thousands of such sites. It fails WP:ELYES and WP:ELMAYBE.
* http://www.genekeyes.com/CAHILL_GALLERY/Cahill_Gallery_Thumb_Index.html
Off topic. The site is about map projections, not world maps, and it is about only a tiny subset of map projections. For both reasons, it’s not relevant to an article about world maps. We cannot have links to sites dedicated to each different map projection for world maps; that would violate Long lists of links are not acceptable. The site is already linked to from more relevant articles.
* http://www.odtmaps.com/
This link is nothing but an advertisement for a commercial site. Strictly forbidden. Links to web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services, or to web pages with objectionable amounts of advertising.
* http://ancientworldmaps.blogspot.com/ Ancient World Maps
Blog not written by notable authority. Links to blogs, personal web pages and most fansites, except those written by a recognized authority. (This exception for blogs, etc, controlled by recognized authorities is meant to be very limited; as a minimum standard, recognized authorities always meet Wikipedia's notability criteria for people.)
Strebe (talk) 17:42, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Link spam

message: My esoteric map was deleted, here is proof of its land formation.  Why was it deleted but not the fisher price blob of a kids toy water map laurentia.  That map looks like it would be pretty impossible. Sorry i live on earth not dream land.
Here is my map:
:« deleted »
Here is proof of the geological formation from google earth:
:« deleted »
Here is a close up of the formation of Antarctica
:« deleted »
: Please familiarize yourself with WP:OR and WP:NOTABLE. Thanks. Strebe (talk) 19:01, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Esoteric Map Deleted?

message: User:Northamerica1000 keeps adding Template:Clickable world map to the top of the page. It already exists in the World_map#See_also section. Furthermore the map is broken in any number of ways depending on which browser you use. Nor is it a particularly useful piece of cartography. There is no consistency in type size and choice, making the map worse than useless in many cases. For example, Sahara shows in the same typeface, color, and size as names of nations. This insistence on injecting the link at the top of the page seems like a promotional effort for the map than like an effort to improve the article. Strebe (talk) 23:26, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Clickable world map

message: Concerning these edits:
* The van Schagen map should not be the lede image; it is not a map of great historical importance. The Ortelius map is.
* The edits made to the Winkel tripel description are incoherent. It has nothing to do with Mollweide.
* The 249 px setting for the larger images is arbitrary.
* The “countries by skin color” map is not representative of any theme common in the literature and has problems in description and context.
* Moving the Ortelius map to the Historical Maps section resulted in orphaning the word “Anaximander” because of a faulty edit.
I have moved the Schagen map to Historical Maps for now, since it needs a home for awhile, and reverted most of the rest of the edits. Moving the Pacific-centric map to the Projections section is reasonable, but was also reasonable where it was in the Thematic section. Strebe (talk) 04:09, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Czixhc, you know very well that the consenus at RSN is that your skin colour map can't be verified by a reliable source. You agreed to accept this consensus when your behaviour was raised at ANI. I have removed your map from this article, please don't put it up again or I will be forced to reopen the ANI case. Tobus2 (talk) 11:12, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: *Tobus, you've clearly misunderstood and need to catch up with the resolution of the ANI discussion. First i already accepted my mystake and i'm not insisting on using it on migration topics , however as that same diff states, the map was found to be very situable for topics regarding cartography (for it's creator having multiple publications and installations on the field of cartography ). That was the conclusion of the discussion at ANI . If i were trying to put it up on migration articles, then i would be breaking my own word, but this isn't the case, what i am doing here is to use it where it is completely situable and nothing else. I hope this is enough to clear up all your doubts. Have a nice day, all of you. Czixhc (talk) 23:27, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: replied at User_talk:Tobus2#This_time.2C_you_are_the_one_who_have_misunderstood_the_situation Tobus2 (talk) 00:09, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

text: Aside from the myriad problems already dealt with by the RSN discussion, there is the further problem of WP:UNDUE. This map is not a normal topic for thematic maps. It’s marginal and possibly unique. Placing it in the article takes space that properly belongs to maps that are more representative of the topic. Strebe (talk) 03:03, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: And he's back at WP:RSN saying that the issue is whether Hagos is an expert on cartography and that Hagos's personal web page at Oxford Brookes which Hagos has written shows that his university considers him an expert in - I'm not sure what this time. Dougweller (talk) 11:27, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Czixhc's copy of the Hagos map is not RS for anything. Hagos himself makes it entirely clear that it is a work of art, not science (the 'data' has no cited source other than Hagos's imagination - and no credible scientist would publish data without citing sources, describing the methodology etc). As such, the map has no place in any Wikipedia article. AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:44, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Formatting and content edits

message: Why an old, outdated, image is used as the first most important picture of the article? If you go to an article of a flag of a country for example, not an old and outdated flag is shown, (of course, because it's outdated). And so is this picture. Of course this picture should be used in the article for the history of the world map, but I don't think it's the best image reflecting world map. Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 18:25, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The Ortelius map has greater historical significance than any other map on the page. The article is not about the present state of the world presented in map form. It is as about world maps as a topic. Strebe (talk) 02:47, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: First image

message: Include such "map" in the article - if there is such "map" at all. 
(Word 'map' in quotes because it would just be a collection of all the countries in their correct proportions, shapes and sizes (for comparison) on a blank surface roughly mimicking their relative positions as on standard rectangular maps - surely with huge gaps between countries - especially around very large countries such as Russia etc.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.150.100.27 (talk) 16:15, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: That is a cartogram. Strebe (talk) 19:06, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Collage of countries in their actual shapes and proportions

message: I used to have a screen saver (on a 1990s PC) of a map of the world (Mercator projection) which showed day and night and was updated every minute.  I have also seen mechanical version of this but I can find no reference to this kind of map.  Can anyone help with a name or reference for this type of map, please?
:Such a map is called a “day/night terminator map”. You can find a bazillion hits on the Internet by searching on day-night map. Strebe (talk) 22:06, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Day/night map 

message: Maybe I have missed something, but is there a reason why there isn't any modern map with the name of the countries on it? Yaḥyā ‎ (talk) 14:30, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems I did miss something, it was hidden in the thematic section. I guess a map of 16th century is more relevant on the introduction of the article. :) Yaḥyā ‎ (talk) 15:36, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Modern map

message: The current one 404s, but this page is protected. New address is: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/maps/world-regional/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:910:103A:0:76D4:35FF:FE8D:C659 (talk) 08:51, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I deleted the link. There doesn’t seem to be the equivalent world map anymore. Strebe (talk) 18:40, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: World map URL from CIA's world factbook changed