The Graphics Lab is a project to improve the graphical content of the Wikimedia projects. Requests for image improvements can be added to the workshop pages: Illustrations, Photographs and Maps. For questions or suggestions one can use the talk pages: Talk:Graphics Lab, Talk:Illustrations, Talk:Photographs and Talk:Maps. This specific page is the requests page for the Map workshop. Anyone can make a request for a map to be created or improved for a Wikipedia article. The standard format for making a request is shown below, along with general advice, and should be followed. Many maps on the web are in the public domain. See c:Template:PD-map; no need to create another free map here if it already exists on the web. See this Casebook to see what maps qualify as public domain.
You are encouraged to share information and request advice from others. Also see possible conventions toolbox, map tutorials and topographic map tutorials.
Sourced requests: If possible, please try to provide a reliable source to create a map. This includes a map already on Wikipedia with a reliable source or an external link.
Please check: Please check back regularly to see if progress has been made or if any additional questions need to be answered before the request can be completed.
Direct collaboration: Some mapmakers are especially interested by one topic area. If you notice a mapmaker fitting your needs, consider asking on their personal talk page to request maps.
{{Reqmap}}: To request a map, you can also tag the talk page of the article in need of a map with or {{Reqmapin|Australia}} (articles then appear in Category:Wikipedia requested maps)
If a request is done to your satisfaction, please mark it with {{resolved}}.
Hi @AAEexecutive, you'll need to place this under a separate request, as your map isn't relevant to this specific discussion. There are instructions at the top of the page on how to go about this.
@Abo Yemen as you are presumably aware North/South Yemen's borders were always contested and often not properly defined or in a state of flux. What year's boundaries do you want? I have a number of sources:
@Abo Yemen you presumably understand that orthographic maps are designed for clearly identifiable regions and here it would perhaps be more appropriate for a normal map. Do you have any other sources than those I included? Would you like separate maps or one with all the boundaries superimposed and a legend? β Isochrone (talk) 20:31, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[]
Hi @Abo Yemen apologies, I did actually do most of the map-making for this! I will try and get something out soonish but I'm rather busy for now. β Isochrone (talk) 15:02, 26 March 2026 (UTC)[]
I'm working on the Nile River article, planning to get it to WP:Featured Article status. Of course, a great map is required. I've hunted in Wiki Commons, but cannot find a decent map. The closest I can find are the three images displayed above ... but none of them are great.
I only need one map. I'm displaying three example maps above as examples of "close, but not great".
The desired map would be similar to the first (left) map shown above, with these improvements:
Higher resolution: about 1,000 x 3,000 pixels
Eliminate the border region around the perimeter (with lat/long numbers) ... not needed
Things about the first map that are great and should be retained:
Topographic (elevation) coloring inside the Nile basin
Emphasize the Nile River drainage basin by changing color scheme inside/outside the basin
Nile river (and its lakes) must prominently displayed in a bold blue color
No textual labels at all on the map
National boundary lines (should be fairly faint)
Things about the first map that _could_ be changed if it helps the graphist/cartographer:
Okay to change the topo/elevation coloring to another scheme
@M.Bitton - I plan on nominating the Nile article for Featured Article status in April/May. So having the map in mid-March should give me time to place annotations on top of it (dams, cataracts, tourist sights, etc) in time for the FA nomination. I don't need help with placing annotations on top: I just need a hi-resolution background map (as described above). Any help you can give would be appreciated! Noleander (talk) 14:00, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[]
@M.Bitton - Another editor spontaneously created a map for the Nile article, so this request can be closed. If you invested any time starting to build a Nile map, I apologize ...but it would not be wasted time: The article is large, and will need about four maps before I can take it to WP:FA, so if you have a partially completed map, I'm happy to take it and make it work. Thanks for offering to help ... much appreciated! Noleander (talk) 18:05, 26 February 2026 (UTC)[]
@M.Bitton - I've completed my work on the body text of the Nile article, so I'm posting the Featured Article nomination today. It is best to start the nomination now, while all the topic sources are fresh in my mind. The article has some decent maps, but it certainly would be improved by incorporating more and better maps. The FAC nomination will take about 2 months, and the article will undergo lots of modifications during that time. If any new maps become available, the article definitely can and will use them. Thanks! Noleander (talk) 22:20, 19 March 2026 (UTC)[]
I am just wondering can somebody make a US map for Percentage of vote received by Pat Buchanan in the 2000 presidential election by state or territory. The darker the color, the higher the %, the lower the % the less darker the color is. The color could be purple.
I just looked at the link you sent and I am totally lost on this. I don't know what i am looking at. You say its the simplest choropleth map creator. It doesn't look like that.
@Muaza Husni: Before making the map, please note the objections raised by @GeogSage: about such choropleth maps (and as far as I can tell, most maps on Wikipedia), namely, lack of an orientation marker, scale, projection used, source (on the map itself), and a conformant colour scheme. I've requested them to raise their objections on this page and commons:Commons:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop to get community consensus. Cheers, cmΙ’ΚeeΟaΚΞΊ(please add {{ping|cmglee}} to your reply)19:03, 26 February 2026 (UTC)[]
@Cmglee: Yes, it looks like what i wanted. Thanks for making it. I thought nobody was going to make it. Thanks again for making it. have a nice week.Muaza Husni (talk) 02:28, 2 April 2026 (UTC)[]
π Checkmark This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. cmglee}} to your reply) 03:04, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
Could someone please do a more professional/less bastardised version of this map? It's for various articles such as Great Zimbabwe, History of Africa (7 in total). The source is Butua and the End of an Era (Van Waarden, 2012) page 50, I can email a screenshot of the page. Van Waarden's map has several other details, but it's just the ones included on this image that are necessary. Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 14:06, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[]
I am intending to nominate the article on Nerio I Acciaioli for FAR. During the peer review, one reviewer observed that the current map is of limited assistance, as it does not sufficiently highlight several principal locations discussed in the text. I would be grateful if you could revise the map to indicate, using appropriate symbols and colour, the following settlements:
Argos
Athens
Corinth
Megara
Nauplia
Patras
Thebes
Vostitsa (Aigio)
I would also be grateful if the following regions could be distinguished by colour:
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