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User Guide: Map types
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The Map type menu option allows you to select the map type of your choice.
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The map types
Wikimapia
Map
Wikimapia's map layer. Viewing this answers many of the questions one might have about how to map features shown on the satellite imagery. When beta was introduced, Wikimapia administration provided two comprehensive examples: [1] & [2]
The colours used on the map layer include the following (square brackets denote categories)[1]:
| Blue with border | [lake], [water] |
| Blue without border | [river], river drawing |
| Blue dotted line | ferry line drawing |
| Green with border | not used? |
| Green without border | [park], [garden] |
| Light-grey with border | [other ordinary tags] |
| Light-grey without border | [village], [city], [town] |
| Dark-grey with border | [building], |
| Dark-grey without border | not used? |
| White background | land |
| White without border | [island] |
| Black/white | Railroad drawing |
| Yellow | Road drawing |
| Pale-yellow | Tunnels in road drawing |
| Invisible with border | [draw only border] |
| Invisible without border | [invisible] |
Satellite
Google's satellite imagery with Wikimapia's places, roads, railways and rivers superimposed. Excludes places without polygons from Wikimapia Classic (see "Satellite + old places" below).
Satellite + old places
Google's satellite imagery with Wikimapia's places, roads, railways, rivers and old places (places without polygons from Wikimapia Classic) superimposed. The old places appear as neat little squares. Useful if you want to add polygons to "old places".
Alternative sources
| Google map | Google's map layer. |
| Google hybrid | Google's satellite imagery with Google roads and Google place names superimposed. |
| Google satellite | The raw Google satellite imagery with nothing superimposed. |
| Google terrain | Google's terrain layer shows contours, shaded relief, Google place names and major rivers. |
| Google panoramio | Google's satellite imagery photographs from Google Panoramio superimposed. |
Notes
- Places, roads, railways, ferries, rivers and terrain can be added to any of the map types.
- Google satellite is useful if you temporarily need an uncluttered view eg in the middle of mapping a place, road, etc some detail is obscured by other mapped features.
References
- ↑ Adapted from http://wikimapia.org/forum/?t=3303 with thanks
