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The World Map is from 2004 and needs updating - but I don't know the source for the larger (1.8 MB image). Seccon —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seccon ( talk • contribs) 21:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
The introduction picture isn't an accurate "Map of the World" as claimed. I tried to fix the definition but it seems that I've been blocked. Apparently someone thinks that an incomplete and unauthentic old map would supposedly add "depth" to the article. 83.228.36.247 ( talk) 06:34, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
If someone could find australian world map (upside down) and japanese/chinese world map (cut in the atlantic instead of the pacific) I think that would make this article much more interesting!!! Yeh it would!!!!!
(I'm french I dont write much on the english wikipedia)
ZeroJanvier 21:02, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
"Map of the World" should not redirect to this, as there is a very well known novel by that title. Pacian 02:38, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
What about another projection, what I call a "Azimuthal Skirt Projection"; taking a view from either the north or south pole like an Azimuthal, though continuing to the opposite pole.
Are you sure you're not thinking of a Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection? It seems pretty close to what you're talking about, unless I'm missing the point completely.
06 December 2006 WorldMapServer.net continues to strive to provide useful map resources and search tools. It would like to have itself reconsidered for inclusion in the Wikipedia resources associated with 'World Map.' Middleforkmaps 03:17, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
I have been informed that my inclusion of an external link to worldmapserver.net violated the 'sites-you-own' Wikipedia policy. I am thus inviting the maintainer of this page to either remove the worldmapserver link or affirm its inclusion. Thank you for your forebearance.
(later) I have noted that the worldmapserver link has been deleted. I accept this based upon the 'sites-you-own' policy, which I admittedly (though innocently) violated. Middleforkmaps 01:54, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Is there an (external/internal) link showing world maps created with different kind of map projections so that one can compare them visually. Vjdchauhan 10:15, 4 December 2006 (UTC).
I have taken out the unsubstantiated claim that Australia and New Zealand use a reversed world map. Please provide evidence / references for this claim if you wish to include this statement. I am New Zealand born and educated and my wife is Australian born and educated and this article is the first time we have heard of a reversed map. -- HдLϋcń8 08:27, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
This page is in serious need of a "history" section (unless one exists elsewhere on wikipedia?). I wouldn't know where to start with one, but I'd love to read one. -- Dtcdthingy 23:46, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
I think that's a great idea, but I'm in the same boat. I'd love to see how different cultures interpreted the world through maps at different times in their histories.
Why when i use this map, the black copy, on paint, the only colors i get are white, black, and grey? -- Jakezing ( talk) 17:18, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone knowthe name of the file/image of the exact same world map with blue water & the actual ground tan? Or if anyone knows of a map with a more "accurate" Mediterranean area that would be greatly appreciated. Kostantino888Z ( talk) 21:10, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Ok, lets face something, the colors are not all the same, If i remember its the northern two pixels of Luxembourg, a small section of Saudi Arabia near UAE and a pixel in Manchuria. Small issues but they've been there for a long time. -- Ssteiner209 ( talk) 23:54, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
In the first map of the first gallery (the map subtitled Mercator projection in the gallery titled Projections) the Caspian Sea... is missing! Can anybody work on the image and restore in it the Caspian Sea? I personally don't know how to do it... Kintaro-san ( talk) 22:27, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
World Maps Welcome to the WORLD MAPS
World Maps is the web where you search for any world map for any part of the world. World Maps has tried to cover the world in various groupings, travel maps showing various destinations within a particular country; and many more map themes. Also you have the possibility to view the FLAGS of the world in our section "World Flags" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.125.251.244 ( talk) 06:29, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
I added a thumbnail of a blank Pacific-centric map to the article. This Japanese map would be a better example, but unfortunately its license status is unclear. -- Keith111 ( talk) 05:26, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Which is it?
Although the Earth is normally capitalized, the former nevertheless looks kind of funky to me. I'm inclined to think that the latter is correct: world government rather than World government - but I'm not 100% certain. Or maybe neither is wrong, like color versus colour. -- Keith111 ( talk) 20:43, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Manual of Style (look here and here) suggests that earth should be capitalized in an astronomical context, but doesn't specifically address world. -- Keith111 ( talk) 08:26, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Esperanto41 has restored the following links, none of which meet Wikipedia’s guidelines for inclusion. I have deleted them again, and will continue to. These quotes are from External_links#Links_normally_to_be_avoided and other guidelines on that page. Note also that Long lists of links are not acceptable.
This link may qualify, but not on the English edition of Wikipedia.
This link is not information about world maps. It is just a commercial site offering a few low resolution world maps for free, plus some advertising. There are thousands of such sites. It fails WP:ELYES and WP:ELMAYBE.
Off topic. The site is about map projections, not world maps, and it is about only a tiny subset of map projections. For both reasons, it’s not relevant to an article about world maps. We cannot have links to sites dedicated to each different map projection for world maps; that would violate Long lists of links are not acceptable. The site is already linked to from more relevant articles.
This link is nothing but an advertisement for a commercial site. Strictly forbidden. Links to web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services, or to web pages with objectionable amounts of advertising.
Blog not written by notable authority. Links to blogs, personal web pages and most fansites, except those written by a recognized authority. (This exception for blogs, etc, controlled by recognized authorities is meant to be very limited; as a minimum standard, recognized authorities always meet Wikipedia's notability criteria for people.)
Strebe ( talk) 17:42, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
My esoteric map was deleted, here is proof of its land formation. Why was it deleted but not the fisher price blob of a kids toy water map laurentia. That map looks like it would be pretty impossible. Sorry i live on earth not dream land.
Here is my map:
Here is proof of the geological formation from google earth:
Here is a close up of the formation of Antarctica
I grew up with the National Geographic whose motto speaks of the 'increase and diffusion of knowledge'. It is sad to see a mindset in Wikipedia which tends toward the decrease and restriction of knowledge: in this instance, worthwhile links being deleted in a manner contrary to spirit if not the letter of Wikipedia. I concurred with omitting the Times Atlas link, which was only advertising. But ODT, which is indeed a commercial site, specializes in unusual world maps that might not be seen elsewhere in one Internet locale. ODT deserves to stay. The Russian site captions are bilingual, with English, and need not be excluded on such a narrow criterion. (Even if it was all Cyrillic, there is such a thing as Google Translate. It is unseemly, on a "world" map page, to put up language fences.) And deleting the "ancientworldmaps" seems an especially egregious instance of elitism, using the phrase "notable authority" as a shibboleth. Is there a comparable website with a comparable set of such ancient world maps? If so, it should be linked. If not, let us keep this notable link. Esperanto41 ( talk) 02:30, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
The question remains: what is so un-notable about the "ancientworldmaps" link? And is there a preferable page? We are not discussing a long list of links; this is a very short list. As for citing an "authority", it is well known that such a term is subject to endless abuse and elasticity, whether the field is jurisprudence, economics, or academe in general. I have my own complaints about the "ancientworldmaps" site -- its lack of source notes, and its black background -- but lack of notableness is not one of them. It provides large images of world maps from a large span of centuries. What's wrong with that? To call it "spam" is mis-use of the word, both as to the intent and content of such a page.
Esperanto41 (
talk)
14:38, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
User:Northamerica1000 keeps adding Template:Clickable world map to the top of the page. It already exists in the World_map#See_also section. Furthermore the map is broken in any number of ways depending on which browser you use. Nor is it a particularly useful piece of cartography. There is no consistency in type size and choice, making the map worse than useless in many cases. For example, Sahara shows in the same typeface, color, and size as names of nations. This insistence on injecting the link at the top of the page seems like a promotional effort for the map than like an effort to improve the article. Strebe ( talk) 23:26, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
I have added a link to the external links section and it has been removed without any notification as to why it was considered inappropriate.
I have read the external links guidelines and believe I do not fall foul of those guidelines, I have asked for no money, no registration, no plugins and the page I created has no advertising, it is a genuine effort to offer free and useful tools to people like myself who design and build web pages that contain world maps, if this free giving of effort and information is not in the spirit of wikipedia then I am lost for words what the external links section is for if not to expand on the subject matter.
I am going to reinstate the link, please be polite enough to contact me if you choose to remove this link, I would like to know the reasoning.
Thankyou — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sygad1 ( talk • contribs) 15:06, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
@Strebe,
Thankyou for taking the time to reply about the removal of my link.
I do however, wish to clarify and ask a few further questions if you have the time to help.
Point 1 I appreciate wikipedia is not a repository of links, this is why I specifically added my link to the external links section.
Point 2 I have no license in place for my content, could I bother you for some guidance on this issue, this is very new to me and I defer to your knowledge and experience.
Point 3 I apologise if I accidentally removed any functionality, I did indeed copy and edit a link.
Point 4 The other external links that have been accepted, I do not feel satisfy the conditions outlined in this point, the pan and zoom, is effectively a variation of what I have offered, in as much it is a web pages with map information, it shows only 1 polar region and I couldn't see any information regarding cartographic accuracy or license references, this is in essence, a map which can be zoomed and nothing else.
The World maps in PDF format link goes to page which doesn't even have a map on it, again, I could't see any reference to cartographic accuracy of license information.
Appreciating the spirit of "ignore all rules" mantra of wikipedia and having also believed I fulfilled the criteria for suitable inclusion in the external links section, might I ask you reconsider my inclusion back to this section.
When searching wikipedia for maps of the world, it is often people like me and my colleagues who are looking for a map that we can use in web pages, I have, I provided an additional level of value to this page by adding a free resource.
As you can see on my page, there is a wealth of information regarding maps, the Illustrator file has every country named on each layer, a file I have searched a considerable amount of time for and resorted to making my own, to which my only request is that I be allowed to share the fruits of my hard work.
I look forward to hearing from you and moving this topic forward — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sygad1 ( talk • contribs) 08:38, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
The table above has links to various tutorials and resources which can help in the creation of Wikipedia maps from digital georeferenced data ( GIS).
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:World Map 1689.JPG will be appearing as picture of the day on September 18, 2013. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2013-09-18. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 01:04, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Concerning these edits:
I have moved the Schagen map to Historical Maps for now, since it needs a home for awhile, and reverted most of the rest of the edits. Moving the Pacific-centric map to the Projections section is reasonable, but was also reasonable where it was in the Thematic section. Strebe ( talk) 04:09, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
Why an old, outdated, image is used as the first most important picture of the article? If you go to an article of a flag of a country for example, not an old and outdated flag is shown, (of course, because it's outdated). And so is this picture. Of course this picture should be used in the article for the history of the world map, but I don't think it's the best image reflecting world map. Sander.v.Ginkel ( talk) 18:25, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Include such "map" in the article - if there is such "map" at all. (Word 'map' in quotes because it would just be a collection of all the countries in their correct proportions, shapes and sizes (for comparison) on a blank surface roughly mimicking their relative positions as on standard rectangular maps - surely with huge gaps between countries - especially around very large countries such as Russia etc.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.150.100.27 ( talk) 16:15, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
I used to have a screen saver (on a 1990s PC) of a map of the world (Mercator projection) which showed day and night and was updated every minute. I have also seen mechanical version of this but I can find no reference to this kind of map. Can anyone help with a name or reference for this type of map, please?
Maybe I have missed something, but is there a reason why there isn't any modern map with the name of the countries on it? Yaḥyā ( talk) 14:30, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
The current one 404s, but this page is protected. New address is: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/maps/world-regional/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:910:103A:0:76D4:35FF:FE8D:C659 ( talk) 08:51, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
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The World Map is from 2004 and needs updating - but I don't know the source for the larger (1.8 MB image). Seccon —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seccon ( talk • contribs) 21:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
The introduction picture isn't an accurate "Map of the World" as claimed. I tried to fix the definition but it seems that I've been blocked. Apparently someone thinks that an incomplete and unauthentic old map would supposedly add "depth" to the article. 83.228.36.247 ( talk) 06:34, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
If someone could find australian world map (upside down) and japanese/chinese world map (cut in the atlantic instead of the pacific) I think that would make this article much more interesting!!! Yeh it would!!!!!
(I'm french I dont write much on the english wikipedia)
ZeroJanvier 21:02, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
"Map of the World" should not redirect to this, as there is a very well known novel by that title. Pacian 02:38, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
What about another projection, what I call a "Azimuthal Skirt Projection"; taking a view from either the north or south pole like an Azimuthal, though continuing to the opposite pole.
Are you sure you're not thinking of a Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection? It seems pretty close to what you're talking about, unless I'm missing the point completely.
06 December 2006 WorldMapServer.net continues to strive to provide useful map resources and search tools. It would like to have itself reconsidered for inclusion in the Wikipedia resources associated with 'World Map.' Middleforkmaps 03:17, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
I have been informed that my inclusion of an external link to worldmapserver.net violated the 'sites-you-own' Wikipedia policy. I am thus inviting the maintainer of this page to either remove the worldmapserver link or affirm its inclusion. Thank you for your forebearance.
(later) I have noted that the worldmapserver link has been deleted. I accept this based upon the 'sites-you-own' policy, which I admittedly (though innocently) violated. Middleforkmaps 01:54, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Is there an (external/internal) link showing world maps created with different kind of map projections so that one can compare them visually. Vjdchauhan 10:15, 4 December 2006 (UTC).
I have taken out the unsubstantiated claim that Australia and New Zealand use a reversed world map. Please provide evidence / references for this claim if you wish to include this statement. I am New Zealand born and educated and my wife is Australian born and educated and this article is the first time we have heard of a reversed map. -- HдLϋcń8 08:27, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
This page is in serious need of a "history" section (unless one exists elsewhere on wikipedia?). I wouldn't know where to start with one, but I'd love to read one. -- Dtcdthingy 23:46, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
I think that's a great idea, but I'm in the same boat. I'd love to see how different cultures interpreted the world through maps at different times in their histories.
Why when i use this map, the black copy, on paint, the only colors i get are white, black, and grey? -- Jakezing ( talk) 17:18, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone knowthe name of the file/image of the exact same world map with blue water & the actual ground tan? Or if anyone knows of a map with a more "accurate" Mediterranean area that would be greatly appreciated. Kostantino888Z ( talk) 21:10, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Ok, lets face something, the colors are not all the same, If i remember its the northern two pixels of Luxembourg, a small section of Saudi Arabia near UAE and a pixel in Manchuria. Small issues but they've been there for a long time. -- Ssteiner209 ( talk) 23:54, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
In the first map of the first gallery (the map subtitled Mercator projection in the gallery titled Projections) the Caspian Sea... is missing! Can anybody work on the image and restore in it the Caspian Sea? I personally don't know how to do it... Kintaro-san ( talk) 22:27, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
World Maps Welcome to the WORLD MAPS
World Maps is the web where you search for any world map for any part of the world. World Maps has tried to cover the world in various groupings, travel maps showing various destinations within a particular country; and many more map themes. Also you have the possibility to view the FLAGS of the world in our section "World Flags" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.125.251.244 ( talk) 06:29, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
I added a thumbnail of a blank Pacific-centric map to the article. This Japanese map would be a better example, but unfortunately its license status is unclear. -- Keith111 ( talk) 05:26, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Which is it?
Although the Earth is normally capitalized, the former nevertheless looks kind of funky to me. I'm inclined to think that the latter is correct: world government rather than World government - but I'm not 100% certain. Or maybe neither is wrong, like color versus colour. -- Keith111 ( talk) 20:43, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Manual of Style (look here and here) suggests that earth should be capitalized in an astronomical context, but doesn't specifically address world. -- Keith111 ( talk) 08:26, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Esperanto41 has restored the following links, none of which meet Wikipedia’s guidelines for inclusion. I have deleted them again, and will continue to. These quotes are from External_links#Links_normally_to_be_avoided and other guidelines on that page. Note also that Long lists of links are not acceptable.
This link may qualify, but not on the English edition of Wikipedia.
This link is not information about world maps. It is just a commercial site offering a few low resolution world maps for free, plus some advertising. There are thousands of such sites. It fails WP:ELYES and WP:ELMAYBE.
Off topic. The site is about map projections, not world maps, and it is about only a tiny subset of map projections. For both reasons, it’s not relevant to an article about world maps. We cannot have links to sites dedicated to each different map projection for world maps; that would violate Long lists of links are not acceptable. The site is already linked to from more relevant articles.
This link is nothing but an advertisement for a commercial site. Strictly forbidden. Links to web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services, or to web pages with objectionable amounts of advertising.
Blog not written by notable authority. Links to blogs, personal web pages and most fansites, except those written by a recognized authority. (This exception for blogs, etc, controlled by recognized authorities is meant to be very limited; as a minimum standard, recognized authorities always meet Wikipedia's notability criteria for people.)
Strebe ( talk) 17:42, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
My esoteric map was deleted, here is proof of its land formation. Why was it deleted but not the fisher price blob of a kids toy water map laurentia. That map looks like it would be pretty impossible. Sorry i live on earth not dream land.
Here is my map:
Here is proof of the geological formation from google earth:
Here is a close up of the formation of Antarctica
I grew up with the National Geographic whose motto speaks of the 'increase and diffusion of knowledge'. It is sad to see a mindset in Wikipedia which tends toward the decrease and restriction of knowledge: in this instance, worthwhile links being deleted in a manner contrary to spirit if not the letter of Wikipedia. I concurred with omitting the Times Atlas link, which was only advertising. But ODT, which is indeed a commercial site, specializes in unusual world maps that might not be seen elsewhere in one Internet locale. ODT deserves to stay. The Russian site captions are bilingual, with English, and need not be excluded on such a narrow criterion. (Even if it was all Cyrillic, there is such a thing as Google Translate. It is unseemly, on a "world" map page, to put up language fences.) And deleting the "ancientworldmaps" seems an especially egregious instance of elitism, using the phrase "notable authority" as a shibboleth. Is there a comparable website with a comparable set of such ancient world maps? If so, it should be linked. If not, let us keep this notable link. Esperanto41 ( talk) 02:30, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
The question remains: what is so un-notable about the "ancientworldmaps" link? And is there a preferable page? We are not discussing a long list of links; this is a very short list. As for citing an "authority", it is well known that such a term is subject to endless abuse and elasticity, whether the field is jurisprudence, economics, or academe in general. I have my own complaints about the "ancientworldmaps" site -- its lack of source notes, and its black background -- but lack of notableness is not one of them. It provides large images of world maps from a large span of centuries. What's wrong with that? To call it "spam" is mis-use of the word, both as to the intent and content of such a page.
Esperanto41 (
talk)
14:38, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
User:Northamerica1000 keeps adding Template:Clickable world map to the top of the page. It already exists in the World_map#See_also section. Furthermore the map is broken in any number of ways depending on which browser you use. Nor is it a particularly useful piece of cartography. There is no consistency in type size and choice, making the map worse than useless in many cases. For example, Sahara shows in the same typeface, color, and size as names of nations. This insistence on injecting the link at the top of the page seems like a promotional effort for the map than like an effort to improve the article. Strebe ( talk) 23:26, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
I have added a link to the external links section and it has been removed without any notification as to why it was considered inappropriate.
I have read the external links guidelines and believe I do not fall foul of those guidelines, I have asked for no money, no registration, no plugins and the page I created has no advertising, it is a genuine effort to offer free and useful tools to people like myself who design and build web pages that contain world maps, if this free giving of effort and information is not in the spirit of wikipedia then I am lost for words what the external links section is for if not to expand on the subject matter.
I am going to reinstate the link, please be polite enough to contact me if you choose to remove this link, I would like to know the reasoning.
Thankyou — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sygad1 ( talk • contribs) 15:06, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
@Strebe,
Thankyou for taking the time to reply about the removal of my link.
I do however, wish to clarify and ask a few further questions if you have the time to help.
Point 1 I appreciate wikipedia is not a repository of links, this is why I specifically added my link to the external links section.
Point 2 I have no license in place for my content, could I bother you for some guidance on this issue, this is very new to me and I defer to your knowledge and experience.
Point 3 I apologise if I accidentally removed any functionality, I did indeed copy and edit a link.
Point 4 The other external links that have been accepted, I do not feel satisfy the conditions outlined in this point, the pan and zoom, is effectively a variation of what I have offered, in as much it is a web pages with map information, it shows only 1 polar region and I couldn't see any information regarding cartographic accuracy or license references, this is in essence, a map which can be zoomed and nothing else.
The World maps in PDF format link goes to page which doesn't even have a map on it, again, I could't see any reference to cartographic accuracy of license information.
Appreciating the spirit of "ignore all rules" mantra of wikipedia and having also believed I fulfilled the criteria for suitable inclusion in the external links section, might I ask you reconsider my inclusion back to this section.
When searching wikipedia for maps of the world, it is often people like me and my colleagues who are looking for a map that we can use in web pages, I have, I provided an additional level of value to this page by adding a free resource.
As you can see on my page, there is a wealth of information regarding maps, the Illustrator file has every country named on each layer, a file I have searched a considerable amount of time for and resorted to making my own, to which my only request is that I be allowed to share the fruits of my hard work.
I look forward to hearing from you and moving this topic forward — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sygad1 ( talk • contribs) 08:38, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
The table above has links to various tutorials and resources which can help in the creation of Wikipedia maps from digital georeferenced data ( GIS).
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:World Map 1689.JPG will be appearing as picture of the day on September 18, 2013. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2013-09-18. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 01:04, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Concerning these edits:
I have moved the Schagen map to Historical Maps for now, since it needs a home for awhile, and reverted most of the rest of the edits. Moving the Pacific-centric map to the Projections section is reasonable, but was also reasonable where it was in the Thematic section. Strebe ( talk) 04:09, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
Why an old, outdated, image is used as the first most important picture of the article? If you go to an article of a flag of a country for example, not an old and outdated flag is shown, (of course, because it's outdated). And so is this picture. Of course this picture should be used in the article for the history of the world map, but I don't think it's the best image reflecting world map. Sander.v.Ginkel ( talk) 18:25, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Include such "map" in the article - if there is such "map" at all. (Word 'map' in quotes because it would just be a collection of all the countries in their correct proportions, shapes and sizes (for comparison) on a blank surface roughly mimicking their relative positions as on standard rectangular maps - surely with huge gaps between countries - especially around very large countries such as Russia etc.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.150.100.27 ( talk) 16:15, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
I used to have a screen saver (on a 1990s PC) of a map of the world (Mercator projection) which showed day and night and was updated every minute. I have also seen mechanical version of this but I can find no reference to this kind of map. Can anyone help with a name or reference for this type of map, please?
Maybe I have missed something, but is there a reason why there isn't any modern map with the name of the countries on it? Yaḥyā ( talk) 14:30, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
The current one 404s, but this page is protected. New address is: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/maps/world-regional/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:910:103A:0:76D4:35FF:FE8D:C659 ( talk) 08:51, 22 November 2021 (UTC)