User:Roke/maps

Note: If you can improve or update any maps I have posted you are free to do so. If you disagree with any, you are free to replace, remove or delete them. This is a free encyclopedia after all. If you need assistance for editing images, try the folks at the Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop or WikiProject Maps as I have been inactive here.

Maps

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  Columbus 1, 2, 3, 4
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  Shaangxi earthquake
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  Timor gap
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  Seleucid Persia
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  Rio de la plata
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  Chew valley lake
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  Niger river
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  Songhai empire
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  Mali empire
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  The Canadas
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  Greenland counties
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  Greenland munic.
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  Saint Martin
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  Borneo
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  New Guinea
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  New Guinea rivers and similar locator maps
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  Mali
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  Jutland

Atlases

recommended atlases

• Black, Jeremy. 2001, DK Atlas of World History Dorling Kindersley, New York ISBN 0-7894-4609-X
• Haywood, John 2001, Cassell's Atlas of World History Andromeda Oxford Ltd, Oxfordshire ISBN 0-304-35757-X
• Overy, Richard, 2006, The Times Complete history of the world Times Books ISBN 0-00-774629-6
• Overy, Richard, 2003, The Times. Mapping History. History of the 20th century. ISBN 0-0071-6637-0
• The Times History of Europe 3,000 years of History in Maps, 2003 Times Books ISBN 0-0071-3161-5
• Kinder, Hermann and Hilgemann, Werner, 2003, Penguin Atlas of World History, Penguin Group, London ISBN 0-141-01263-3
• McEvedy, Colin. 1982, Penguin Atlas of Ancient, Medieval, Modern and Recent History, Penguin Books, Middlesex, England ISBN 0-14-0708-34-0
• Swift, Michael 2006, Mapping the World, Chartwell Books Inc. ISBN 0-7858-2074-4
• Philip's Atlas of World History, 1992, Philip's ISBN 0-540-05677-4
• Yenne, Bill 2005 Atlas of North American Railroads, MBI Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, ISBN 0-7603-2299-6

• 1923 Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd general history atlas
• 1912 Cambridge Modern History Atlas

map colours

I try to use the standard WikiProject Maps colours where possible:

Color	Hex	RGB	Sample	Used for
Black	#000000	0, 0, 0		Primary label color
Brown	#A08070	160, 128, 112		Political borders. Country, state, and province borders should be brown.
Light brown	#D0C0A0	208, 192, 160		Secondary political borders.
Light yellow	#FFFFD0	255, 255, 208		Primary territory of interest, or one of four choices for four-color maps.
Pink	#FFD0D0	255, 208, 208		Another color to be used for four-color maps.
Orange	#F8A20C	248, 162, 12		A third color to be used for four-color maps.
Green	#3CE67B	60, 230, 123		A fourth color to be used for four-color maps.
Light blue	#CEFEF2	206, 254, 242		An alternate color to be used for four-color maps.
Orange	#F7D3AA	247, 211, 170		Alternative color for the above Tan (surrounding territories).
Medium blue	#9EC7F3	158, 199, 243		Bodies of water. Oceans or lakes.
Blue	#1821DE	24, 33, 222		Water borders, if necessary. For lake or ocean borders that need a color contrasting with surrounding land, or for rivers.
Red	#B00000	176, 0, 0		Points of interest. Cities, especially.
Red-orange	#F07568	240, 117, 104		Alternative color for the above Red (points of interest).
Medium red	#E0584E	224, 88, 78		Border color for areas highlighted in Red-orange
Green	#A0F090	160, 240, 144		Parks or natural preservation areas

Names

• Chinese (simplified) - 地图
• Dutch - kaart
• French - carte
• German - Diagramm
• Italian - carta
• Japanese - 地図
• Korean - 지도
• Polish - mapa
• Portuguese - mapa
• Russian - карта
• Spanish - mapa
• Swedish - karta