Wereldburger758

I am a Dutch citizen living in Rotterdam. Normally, I do orthography control on Wikipedia pages. I make maps and improve pictures

Languages etc.

Deze gebruiker heeft het Nederlands als moedertaal.

This user can contribute with a near-native level of English.

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

Dieser Benutzer hat sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse.

Miscel.

This user is interested in maps.

This user is a Sagittarian.

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar has been awarded to User:Wereldburger758 for outstanding contribution in copy editing Siege of Damascus (634) by الله أكبرMohammad Adil 07:43, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		I award you this barn-star, for your copy-editing on Siege of Damascus (634). U deserve it man.... الله أكبرMohammad Adil 07:43, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

		The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
		To Wereldburger758/Citypeek for his ace mapwork. Cheers. Saravask 01:43, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Important links edit

The table above has links to various tutorials and resources which can help in the creation of Wikipedia maps from digital georeferenced data (GIS).

v t e Map conventions and Map Project
	Conventions set	Location maps and US locations Locator maps (from SVG locator maps, 2012) Gradient maps Topographic maps Exchanges maps Orthographic maps
	Drafts	Area maps (+Historical maps )
	Others	Map Workshop (practice cartography here) Map Project and Discussions Conventions (general) (suggestions and discussions) Map tutorials Software (Inkscape) World map utilities GIS sources and palettes (fr↔en)

v t e Atlas
Cartography Geography Geovisualization Map Map projection Topography
Early world maps History of cartography List of cartographers
Animated mapping Cartogram Choropleth map Geologic map Linguistic map Nautical chart Pictorial map Thematic map Topographic map Weather map
Category:Maps Portal:Atlas

v t e Digital cartography tutorials : GIS, topography, shaded reliefs, and semantic layers
Graphics Lab	Inkscape tutorials:	SVG exercises for mapmaking (to open in Inkscape)	6 layers: ➊➋➌➍➎➏
	QGIS layers:	(Todo list) 0. Installations ➊. Topography (NASA data) ➋: Political divisions and watersways (NaturalEarth data) ➌. Roads and urban areas (OSM data) ➍. Shaded relief and tiles merging ➎. Reprojection .
	Inkscape layers:	➏ Compilation and semantic ➐. Thematic additions.
	Open JUMP GIS tutorials:	Creating a general political/historical map with Open JUMP GIS
	GRASS GIS tutorials	Geographic vector mapping (no fr) Bitmap relief mapping (fr↔en: 20%) Topographic vector mapping (fr↔en: 95%) Aquatic surface vector mapping (fr↔en: 1%) Creating shaded relief (GRASS, 3DEM) (fr↔en: 100%)
	Help & tools:	Map conventions (general) Gis datas & palette files (fr↔en) {{GIS data for Graphic Lab}} Optimizing shaded relief using GIMP (old) (fr↔en: 100%) Map tutorials^(e.n.) Software (QGis, Inkscape, TheGIMP) List of National Coordinate Reference Systems (Europe only. To expand) Make (software)
	Community:	Map Workshop (need you!) Map Project & Discussions [e.n. = expansion need]