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Vatican City map[edit]

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Original – A map of Vatican City, home of the Catholic Church's leadership
Reason
High resolution, well used, easy to read, featured on Commons
Articles in which this image appears
Geography of Vatican City +6
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps
Creator
Thoroe
  • Support as nominator -- — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:13, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support - which way is north? Having some compass indication would move me to a stronger support. Chris857 (talk) 17:48, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    • Note: On every map without any indication of the direction north is at the upper side of the map. This is cartography standard. Here the upper side is north, so a compass indication is needless. NNW (talk) 08:36, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
      • Either way I've pinged the creator. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:51, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
      • Disagree with NordNordWest, a small north arrow should be added. Mattximus (talk) 22:32, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
        • What for? NNW (talk) 11:36, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
          • Well, I wondered which way was north, Chris857 above wondered which way was north. Presumably we are not the only ones... Mattximus (talk) 03:24, 2 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
            • I never wondered that. As said, a cartography standard (which I believe is taught in high schools). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:19, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Very nicely done. Drmies (talk) 01:40, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Looks great and highly usable as a map. Kreig67 (talk) 09:24, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. Beautiful, very informative and well-presented. It looks like it was made in a vector format though - if so, would an SVG not be more appropriate than this raster? A vector version would also be much more suitable for translation. I'd strongly support an SVG, though if it can't be found I won't oppose this. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 12:25, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    • The creator explained on Commons that he prefers PNG as SVG "does not render properly". — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:54, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Presumably, this well done user-generated map is meant to represent the city in 2013? If so, can the title be changed to add "2013" to reflect that? Just looking at the documentation does not make that intent clear, and the links could change over-time (but an addition to the title would be clearer or even "2013" somewhere on the map itself). Alanscottwalker (talk) 12:29, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • support very high EV.Geni (talk) 13:54, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Tomer T (talk) 03:51, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support I too wondered which way was north. I can see that cartography standard has the top as north, but I have never been taught that. I work in a school system, and I don't think we teach it here (in the middle of nowhere). This map is high enough quality to pass with or without showing which way was north. -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 15:05, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Vatican City map EN.png --Armbrust The Homunculus 14:30, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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