User:Golbez/maps

One day I was browsing Wikipedia and noticed that there wasn't a map of the prefectures of Japan. Sure, there was a map, but it wasn't labelled. You had to go to each individual prefecture to find the one you wanted. So I took the existing map and labelled it. And thus it began...

I started making maps. I was inspired by Morwen's work, who had made awesome maps of the many divisions of the British Isles. I adopted her color scheme, and got tips from her, and went to work.

I've made maps for many countries now, just the top-level divisions for now. Now that most countries are mapped, I thought about what else needed to be done. I started making named maps, for people who want to print out a map. And I started putting up my blank maps (currently in PNG; someday I may start using a vector format like SVG).

Note: Even though my blank maps are high resolution, this does not mean that every squiggle and line is authoritative. These are traces of other maps, usually public domain CIA or UN maps, but the fact remains that little squiggles are probably caused by my mouse slipping or my hand twitching. I don't know, I'm paranoid someone will think that my lines are authoritative.

I'm now starting to even do maps that Morwen and others have already done, because 1) I want to have a whole Golbez Suite of maps for people to use, and 2) These don't usually have named/blank versions available. This is NOT to denigrate the work of Morwen and others at all, far from it - but I just wanted to have blank maps available for myself in case they are needed, or if the regions change, etc. And there's nothing wrong with a tad redundancy, right? :)

I am making named maps using the native names, the English names, and where possible, the ISO standard names. Usually, the English and ISO maps will be identical, as the ISO is the "standard" naming. Sometimes, the native and English names are identical as well, with languages that use Latin scripts and such. English names are usually taken from the English Wikipedia.

Afghanistan (Arabic needed)

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  English/ISO
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  Blank

Albania

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  Albanian/ISO
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  Blank

Algeria

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  English
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  Arabic
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  Blank

Andorra

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  English/Native
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  Blank

Angola

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  English/ISO
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  Blank

Antigua and Barbuda

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  English/Native
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  Blank

Argentina

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  Blank
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  English
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  Spanish

Armenia

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  English
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  Armenian
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  Blank

Australia

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  English
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  Blank

Austria

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  English
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  German
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  Blank

Azerbaijan

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  English/ISO
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  Azeri
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  Blank

Bahamas (Need map)

No maps available.

Bahrain (Need Arabic)

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  English
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  Blank

Bangladesh

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  English
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  Bengali
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  Blank

Barbados

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  English
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  Blank

Belarus

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  English
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  Belarusian
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  Blank

Belgium (Skipped)

skipped

Belize

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  English
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  Blank

Benin (Need map)

need map

Bhutan

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  English districts
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  English zones
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  Blank districts
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  Blank zones

Bolivia

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  Spanish
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  Blank

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Skipped)

skipped

Botswana

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  English/Native
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  Blank

Brazil

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  Portuguese
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  Blank

hey, how could we have a detailed animated map of Brazil? I can gather written information about the municipalities but have no maps. Can you help?

Brunei (Need native)

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  English
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  Blank

Bulgaria (skipped)

skipped

Burkina Faso (skipped)

skipped

Burundi (skipped)

skipped

Cambodia (need khmer)

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  English/ISO
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  Blank

Cameroon

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  English
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  French
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  Blank

Canada

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  English
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  French
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  Blank

Cape Verde (need map)

need up to date map

Central African Republic (skipped)

skipped

Chad (need map)

need up to date map

Chile (skipped)

Skipped - the existing maps are so good, and due to a lack of maps, this will have to wait until I finish the rest.

China (skipped)

Wow, there is no reason whatsoever to duplicate this awesome work.

Colombia

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  English
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  Spanish
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  Blank

Comoros (skipped)

not needed

Congo-Brazzaville

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  French
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  Blank

Congo-Kinshasa

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  French
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  Blank

Costa Rica

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  Spanish
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  Blank

Cote d'Ivoire (need map)

need map

Croatia (skipped)

skipped

Cuba (skipped)

skipped

Cyprus (need native)

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  English
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  Blank
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  Blank w/o UN or UK lines

Czechia (need map)

need map

Denmark (skipped)

existing map is perfect

Djibouti (need map)

need map

Dominica

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  English
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  Blank

Dominican Republic (need map)

need map

Ecuador (need map)

need map

Egypt

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  English
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  Arabic
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  Blank

El Salvador

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  Spanish
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  Blank

Equatorial Guinea

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  Spanish
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  Blank

Eritrea (need native)

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  English
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  Blank

Ethiopia (need native)

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  English
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  Blank

Gabon

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  French
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  Blank

Gambia

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  English
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  Blank

Ghana

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  English
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  Blank

Grenada

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  English
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  Blank

Guinea Bissau

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  Portuguese
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  Blank

Guyana

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  English
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  Blank

Haiti

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  French
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  Blank

Honduras

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  Spanish
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  Blank

Israel (need native)

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  English
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  Blank

Jordan

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  English
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  Arabic
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  Blank

Kuwait (need local)

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  English
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  Blank

Latvia

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  Latvian
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  Blank

Lebanon (need local)

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  English
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  Blank

Mali

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  French
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  Blank

Mauritania (need arabic)

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  French
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  Blank

Mauritius

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  French/English
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  Blank

Niger

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  French
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  Blank

Qatar (need arabic)

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  English
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  Blank

St. Kitts and Nevis

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  English
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  Blank

Samoa

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  English
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  Blank

Slovakia

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  English
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  Slovakian
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  Blank

Suriname

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  Dutch
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  Blank

Timor-Leste

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  Portuguese
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  Blank

Uruguay

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  Spanish
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  Blank

Yemen (need Arabic)

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  English
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  Blank

Zambia

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  English
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  Blank