User:Yug/Recommendations
< User:Yug
Overview of the needs
editRecommendation need | Aim | Background, Style & Tools | Current status, Various notes, and current emerging proposal. |
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Basis | |||
World projection | Display the world in the most suitable projection for wp use. Ease both the creation and the reading of World maps. |
BlankMap-World6.svg (Robinson) ? Adopt the Winkel tripel ? the Mollweide projection ? |
The current BlankMap is in Robinson projection : a/ do we keep it or change for an other one ? (-> Winkel ? Plate carree ?) b/ Do we display Antartic ? |
Introduction: Upload and Legend advices |
General advices for mapmakers: Font, Naming conventions, License, Legend, Category. Map-relate wiki technologies-introduction (Template {Legende}, others) |
{{Maplegend}}, {{Mapcolor}}, {{Légende cartographique}}, further SVG tools & technologies welcome. | New global and medium proposal, waiting comments before approval. |
Color theory: Research for optimized colors |
General advices to set optimized palets : web safe colors, attractives, non-aggressive but clearly distinguishable. | en:Color theory, en:Web colors, web tools to harmonize colors (such this one). | |
Very last review: | Review by some color blind users, coherence between naming conventions, etc. | ||
Maps' types | |||
Basis | |||
Standard Wikimaps background | World: Display all current Countries on a neutral color World map. | Style: wikimaps. Borders: administrative ones. Labels: no. Projection : ? |
Note: far and close up views will be allow. Close up will be « position » maps displaying the area and it's 1st level administrative divisions. The Far view will be the « locator » view, puting the country in its continent. |
Small area: to later display an area on its geographic context (i.e: Wales out of the Britanic Islands ; neutral color map). | |||
Easy types (all the following maps will have background colors according to previous "Wikimaps background" colors) | |||
Location maps |
Mainly for geolocation purposes. Just display the subject (most of time a country) in its geographic close context |
Style: wikimaps Projection: equirectangular (conical for higher latitudes). Borders: subject ones + it's sub-divions. Labels: no. |
Use the Position map + georeference template to add the dozen of label. Example: old practice (depreciated) ; new practice using georeference-templates.
The question is here to choice suitable + neutral + serious + soft colors. |
Simple CIA maps | Display a country or region with the dozen of very importants things to notice | Will be replaced by better ones in time. |
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Gradiant maps | Display Wikimaps background + the area need colorated according to their % (rate) or rank. | Style and projection: wikimaps. Borders: subjects ones. Labels and legend: if necessary. Color set: under construction (Yug+LoH) | |
Locator maps (area) * Country locator * Bio-locator etc. |
Ease the localisation of a subject on its continent and on the earth | Style: basic topo style (4 positive, 3 negative levels). Borders: continental and subject ones. Labels: no. Projection: ? Color set: need 1 recommended color for the subject + some other |
Find suitable colors for vegetal/walking/swimming/flying |
Expert types | |||
Geopolitical maps | The common, multi-purpose map in an article page. Display most stratigical informations such railroads, highspeed, harbors, etc. |
Improved French standard style. | |
Exchanges maps | Display roads, train, planes lines, economic exchanges, etc. with numeral values | Put on the geopolitical maps ? or on topographic ones ?. Which color /icone set ? |
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Physical maps (relief / topographic) | Display topo-hydro(-human?) datas. | will likely follow the improved French standard style. | |
Historical maps | Display territories, contested area, wars and battles, extensions and move of armies | Which color /icone set ? | |
Currently cancelled | |||
Biosphere maps | Display bio datas (forest of *,*,* ; human's created forest ; fields of *,*,* ; human habitat ; ). | Which color /icone set ? | |
Geologic maps | Canceled (not manageable with current knowledge.) | need advices from a geologist |
- Advancement
= planned ; and = currently under discussion ; = almost approved ; Done = approved, wait last reviews to be put into force.