Commons:Map resources/Aide-memoire to illustrate status of treaties
This page is aimed to help to illustrate in an exact and clean manner the participation to international treaties by the states.
Steps edit
- Retrieve the information about ratification/accession and signature of the treaty on the website of the depositary (e.g. United Nations Treaties Collection for UN treaties).
- Download an up-to-date version of BlankMap-World.svg or another appropriate blank map in SVG format. This ensures all relevant changes to countries have been taken into account
- With a text editor, open the SVG file (often using "open with" followed by clicking on a text editor). Start writing just above
</style> <path id="ocean"
, and add the 2-letter country-code of the countries to be added (each one preceded by a dot and separated by a comma), followed by color instructions following the examples provided earlier in the file (Additional style rules). An example is:.nl, .us { fill: #ff0000; }
to colour Netherlands and the United States in the colour red. Please refer to the documentation of the map to see how to set the colors of the political entities in CSS. To facilitate the upgrading of the treaty status, do not edit the file with a graphic editor like Inkscape, but only change the text in the top part of the file. - Update the file to Commons adding {{NoInkscape}} and a legend to precise the colors used (typically, one for the ratification/accession and one for the signature, but other colour systems are possible). Example :
{{legend|#008000|Ratified}} {{legend|#eeee00|Only signed}}
- Categorize the file with Category:SVG membership maps of the world and other relevant categories.
- We suggest to create an P18 (image) statement in the Wikidata item for the treaty with the filename as value.
Special cases to handle edit
In addition to each country having signed or ratified a treaty, some subnational entities may not be colored by the ISO code of the country they have a relationship with. This section is focusing on the legal status of the treaty for the subnational entities, in combination with the way this is coded in the map. It does not infer an opinion about the status of those entities
Subnational entity | parent entity | included in code of | excluded in code of | status of the ratification and action required | |
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Faroe | fo |
Denmark | dk | In absence of any reservation, treaties applying to Denmark also apply here | |
Greenland | gl |
Denmark | dk | In absence of any reservation, treaties applying to Denmark also apply here | |
Tokelau | tk |
New Zealand | nz | ||
New Caledonia | nc |
France | fr | In absence of any reservation, treaties applying to France also apply here | |
Hong Kong | hk |
China | cn | cnx | In presence of reservation or territorial exclusion, should be discolored. |
Macau | mo |
China | cn | cnx | In presence of reservation or territorial exclusion, should be discolored. |
Puerto Rico | pr |
United States | us | ||
Aruba | aw |
Kingdom of the Netherlands | nl, nlx | Include if treaty was applied/extended to the Netherlands Antilles prior to 1986, or extendend to Aruba (after 1986), or if it applies to the Kingdom of the Netherlands as a whole | |
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba | bq |
Kingdom of the Netherlands | nl, an | nlx | Include if treaty was applied/extended to the Netherlands Antilles prior to 10-10-2010, or extended to Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (after 2010), or if it applies to the Kingdom of the Netherlands as a whole |
Curacao | cw |
Kingdom of the Netherlands | an | nl, nlx | Include if treaty was applied/extended to the Netherlands Antilles prior to 10-10-2010, or extended to Curacao (after 2010), or if it applies to the Kingdom of the Netherlands as a whole |
Sint Maarten | sx |
Kingdom of the Netherlands | an | nl, nlx | Include if treaty was applied/extended to the Netherlands Antilles prior to 10-10-2010, or extended to Sint Maarten (after 2010), or if it applies to the Kingdom of the Netherlands as a whole |
Guernsey | gg |
United Kingdom | gb | Include in presence of explicit territorial application notification from the UK. | |
Isle of Man | im |
United Kingdom | gb | Include in presence of explicit territorial application notification from the UK. | |
Jersey | je |
United Kingdom | gb | Include in presence of explicit territorial application notification from the UK. | |
Gibraltar | gi |
United Kingdom | gb | Include in presence of explicit territorial application notification from the UK. |
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