A Blank Map Thread

[MissMoonMage]

Here is a beautiful blank topographic map of the US in the public domain on wikimedia

File:Topographic map of the USA.png - Wikimedia Commons

commons.wikimedia.org

 

[shearsforest]

New England + Acadia, edit of an earlier map on the Wiki.

 

[Bob Hope]

Found a beautiful Europe map in Wiki;-
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europa_-_Stadt_-_Land_-_Fluss_3.jpg
unfortunately it is jpg.
This is my adjustment in png to make it usable;

 

[UtraseI]

Well, hello, i have made this big bum world map (7000 x 3526) View attachment BlankWorldMap.pngAnd this USA map

 

[UtraseI]

im in the process of making an even bigger world map (11778 x 6126)

 

[Bob Hope]

Well, hello, i have made this big bum world map (7000 x 3526) View attachment 741120And this USA map

im in the process of making an even bigger world map (11778 x 6126)

Are you aware of VT-Bam and Examap/Gigamap?

 

[UtraseI]

Are you aware of VT-Bam and Examap/Gigamap?

Well yeah but i wanna make my own because why not and i am very bored

 

[Bob Hope]

Well yeah but i wanna make my own because why not and i am very bored

COOL

 

[wietze]

Well yeah but i wanna make my own because why not and i am very bored

best reason to do it

 

[Bunnyrich]

Do we have a North America map somewhere near 1830? Prior to the Mexican American war

 

[Miss Construction]

A polite request if allowed. I'm trying to develop maps for my ongoing Why the Chinese play cricket TL. I used to be a graphic artist (sadly a degenerative neurological condition has greatly reduced my hand eye coordination and it's now a bit of a struggle). I've found a lot of good blank maps I can use in this forum (many thanks to everyone who has invested in contributing these). However they almost exclusively seem to be bitmaps.

I work mainly with a vector graphic program as said neurological condition can make working with bitmaps tricky for me (Inkscape to be exact, it's similar to Illustrator which I used when I was a graphic artist and I find its feature set larger than sk1). So if anyone knows a good source for vector graphic map files, I'd very much appreciate it. SVG is my preferred format.

 

[FriendlyGhost]

A polite request if allowed. I'm trying to develop maps for my ongoing Why the Chinese play cricket TL. I used to be a graphic artist (sadly a degenerative neurological condition has greatly reduced my hand eye coordination and it's now a bit of a struggle). I've found a lot of good blank maps I can use in this forum (many thanks to everyone who has invested in contributing these). However they almost exclusively seem to be bitmaps.

I work mainly with a vector graphic program as said neurological condition can make working with bitmaps tricky for me (Inkscape to be exact, it's similar to Illustrator which I used when I was a graphic artist and I find its feature set larger than sk1). So if anyone knows a good source for vector graphic map files, I'd very much appreciate it. SVG is my preferred format.

Here are a few sources I've found online:
https://www.amcharts.com/svg-maps/ - seem to be quite detailed - uses Mercator projection - available under CC BY-NC 4.0 licence;
https://mapsvg.com/maps - also quite detailed - also uses Mercator - I couldn't find information about licensing/attribution but the downloads are free;
https://simplemaps.com/resources/svg-maps - low detail unless you purchase - uses Robinson projection - free for use under licence stated on the site.

Hope that's of some use.

Spoiler: Another site with a restrictive licence

There is another site which has other projections available (https://vemaps.com) but the licence states 'No Derivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you CANNOT distribute the modified material' so you wouldn't be able to use them here.

 

[Miss Construction]

Here are a few sources I've found online:
https://www.amcharts.com/svg-maps/ - seem to be quite detailed - uses Mercator projection - available under CC BY-NC 4.0 licence;
https://mapsvg.com/maps - also quite detailed - also uses Mercator - I couldn't find information about licensing/attribution but the downloads are free;
https://simplemaps.com/resources/svg-maps - low detail unless you purchase - uses Robinson projection - free for use under licence stated on the site.

Hope that's of some use.

Spoiler: Another site with a restrictive licence

There is another site which has other projections available (https://vemaps.com) but the licence states 'No Derivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you CANNOT distribute the modified material' so you wouldn't be able to use them here.

Thank you very much. These look extremely useful. Mapssvg.com seems to use the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence as well. It showed up when I went to download.

 

[Board 3659]

Hi I would like to request a blank map of North Eastern Africa. (Or you can just find me one that fits the descriptions below)
Make the country/colony borders be 1914; 1 Pixel wide for Coast and Borders
Example below:

 

[UtraseI]

Maps of europe from 1815 , 1848, 1867, 1900, 1914, 1923, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1972 and 2022

 

[UtraseI]

The rest

 

[UtraseI]

oops accidentally made greece independent on the 1815 map, it's no big deal as you can delete the border

 

[UtraseI]

Also for god's sake please make your maps PNG, not JPEG as it will compress the image and make it look bad while PNG keeps the image at original quality