Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Source materials

In creating geographical maps for Wikipedia, it is often useful to have high-quality source material such as blank outline maps, Adobe Photoshop or GIMP-format images with layers, SVG files and so on. If you have such source material that you think may be helpful to other map authors, please feel free to upload it to Wikipedia and list it here.

Blank maps edit

When making your own maps for a specialized purpose, check out the basic templates provided at

Public domain and free map resources edit

Active edit

Potentially Defunct/Broken Links edit

Countries edit

Afghanistan edit

Angola edit

  • Angola Mosaic - National Topographic Map 1:200,000 Russian (Soviet Military)

Cambodia edit

  • Cambodia Mosaic - National Topographic Map 1:200,000 Russian (Soviet Military)

India edit

  • India Mosaic - National Topographic Map 1:200,000 Russian (Soviet Military)

Kuwait edit

  • Kuwait Mosaic - National Topographic Map 1:200,000 Russian (Soviet Military)

Laos edit

  • Laos PDR Mosaic - National Topographic Map 1:200,000 Russian (Soviet Military)

Mali edit

  • Mali Mosaic - National Topographic Map 1:200,000 Russian (Soviet Military)

Myanamar edit

  • Myanmar Mosaic - National Topographic Map 1:200,000 Russian (Soviet Military)

Mozambique edit

North Korea (DPRK) edit

Thailand edit

  • Thailand Mosaic - National Topographic Map 1:200,000 Russian (Soviet Military)

Sri Lanka edit

Syria edit

  • Syria Mosaic - National Topographic Map 1:200,000 Russian (Soviet Military)

United Arab Emirates edit

  • UAE Mosaic - National Topographic Map 1:200,000 Russian (Soviet Military)

Vietnam edit

  • Vietnam Mosaic - National Topographic Map 1:200,000 Russian (Soviet Military)

Cities edit

  • World city maps (copyright status is the same as that for Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection above.

And you can obtain more atlas and maps from public domain encyclopedias, books and documents.

U.S. Maps edit

History Maps edit

General edit

See also edit