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User:Strebe I found that the world map pics are too detailed to be shown in such a resolution. What are the other alternatives? CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 17:08, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You're missing the point: when it comes to images, the relevance is more important than everything else. Most of the article is about our planet and how it's represented, so what makes you think that a map of planet Mars would be more representative of the subject? M.Bitton (talk) 17:29, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You are right. I will try to find maps of Earth locations instead. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 02:17, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't create another issue. There is absolutely no need to replace anything. M.Bitton (talk) 03:09, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is, for those that print or read the article offline. They won't be able to see the labels and legends – crucial components of maps. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 03:11, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I certainly don't agree with your opinion. M.Bitton (talk) 03:16, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. I won't push my argument further. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 03:18, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

CactiStaccingCrane gets at a problem that I’ve been aware of for years but haven’t done anything about. I wish people in the cartographic profession — especially academic — would take an interest in this article. The selection of maps we show in the article is arbitrary and therefore open to endless contest — not to mention, not being the most educational. I think the first map presented ought to clearly illustrate the primary elements of a map, instead of it being some 17th century piece of art that’s neither informed by modern cartographic thought, nor a dominant work cited by historians. (The only reason the van Schagen map is even there is because someone didn’t have a better article to put it into.) Maps have been constructed whose purpose is to teach about maps, rather than teach about the mapped geography, and that’s what we ought to be using if we can find one in the public domain. Most of the examples I can find are actually about teaching elements of geography instead of elements of maps (such as [1]), but there might be enough overlap for one of them to make do. Strebe (talk) 23:27, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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