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Wikivoyage:Go-between reports/Portuguese

Here are the go-between reports for the Portuguese-language version of Wikivoyage.

 * Project:Go-between reports/Portuguese/Portuguese Wikivoyage Report for 2 March 2006
 * Project:Go-between reports/Portuguese/Portuguese Wikivoyage Report for 2 April 2006
 * Project:Go-between reports/Portuguese/Portuguese Wikivoyage Report for 2 May 2006
 * Project:Go-between reports/Portuguese/Portuguese Wikivoyage Report for 5 June 2006


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Wikivoyage:Go-between reports/Spanish

This page contains the go-between reports for Spanish Wikivoyage.

July 2006
I still find it odd that the users of this language version haven't said a word about its great development, so please allow me to drop a line or two about it here. I used to visit Spanish every now and then out of curiosity and after 2 months of absence I've found it's taken some steps relevant enough to be reported here: Reported on 23 July by (WT-en) Ricardo (Rmx)
 * 1) They have set a community portal similar or equivalent to our Project page. It contains requests for help/attention on issues like translation of pages and article maintenance and links to the votes for deletion and article template pages;
 * 2) They have also set an article improvement drive (collaboration of the week), which is probably a very good idea for near-newborn language versions like Spanish;
 * 3) On 17 July they began a voting process to define voting rights for Wikivoyage users based on their number of edits. This sounds very Wikipedia-ish to me and apparently hasn't been adopted by any of the other language versions, where decisions are usually taken by consensus (except in a few cases such as votes for deletion, where anybody's opinion is welcome). After one week of voting only two users have raised their hands for the proposal and none against it, so we can't be quite sure if es: is really taking a different direction in this case.

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Wikivoyage:Go-between reports/Swedish

Here are the go-between reports from swedish Wikivoyage:

 * Project:Go-between reports/Swedish/Swedish Wikivoyage Report for 18 December 2005
 * Project:Go-between reports/Swedish/Swedish Wikivoyage Report for 22 January 2006
 * Project:Go-between reports/Swedish/Swedish Wikivoyage Report for 23 February 2006
 * Project:Go-between reports/Swedish/Swedish Wikivoyage Report for 19 April 2006

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Wikivoyage:Go-between reports/Template

Project:Go-between reports

Progress in general
This is where you sum up your progress in general - a few sentences

New contributors
Estimated amount of new users, anonymous as well as logged in users

Focus since last report
Account for your focus since the last report

Focus during the next month
Account for your planned activity during the coming month/report period

Special issues
Account for special issues, for example software issues or editing issues that you cannot solve yourselves

Conclusion
How you feel about the project and its progress

Comments
Comments from the receiver(s) of your report

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Wikivoyage:Graffiti wall

Sculpture is a three-dimensional art genre that can take several forms including statues, busts, and reliefs. Sculptures embody the concepts of volume and space. Unlike a drawing or a photograph, they are objects that are often described as round because you can walk around them, view them from above, or (if they're small enough), pick them up and look at the bottom.

Understand

Sculpture is a very old form of artistic expression. Some of the most valued sculptures are from ancient cultures that existed thousands of years ago, sometimes before the dawn of writing or drawing. Sculptures have been created in every part of the world using a range of materials and techniques. Depending on the material used, sculptures often are among the most durable artifacts of a culture, surviving long after paper or canvas has rotted away to dust.

Iconic sculptures
Some sculptures are instantly recognizable to people around the globe. They've become symbols of the artists who created them and the cities where they were created. There are only a few examples listed here, because even though we may all have our own favorite artists, not all of their work can be said to make it to the status of an internationally recognized symbol. Some that do include:

 * David by Michelangelo, marble carving created between 1501 and 1504, the original is in the Galleria dell'Accademia, in Florence, Italy
 * The Thinker by Auguste Rodin, bronze casting created in 1904, the original is in the Musee Rodin in Paris, France
 * Venus de Milo is an ancient Greek statue of polished carved marble, likely created in 150 BC by Alexandros of Antioch, it is displayed in the Louvre in Paris, France.

Techniques
There are two basic techniques for creating sculptures: reductive and additive. The time-honored practice of chiseling away at a block of marble is the reductive technique, so is carving a block of wood with a knife. Forming a sculpture from a hunk of clay can be referred to additive, but more often would be called modeling. Another way to make a sculpture is to create a mold and then pour in molten metal (most often bronze, but you could use other materials, even wax).

In contemporary art, techniques such as welding are common and materials could include scrap iron, or even industrial waste. Any material that can be manipulated to form a statue or any other kind of sculpture is fair game!

Forms

Three forms of sculpture are most common:
 * statue - a carved or cast figure of a person or animal
 * bust - a sculpture of a person's head and shoulders (such as the iconic Egyptian bust of Nefertiti, ca. 1350 BC)
 * relief - n three-dimensional image of a scene against a background material, such as a frieze carved into a wall

A memorial (or monument) is a structure built in honor of a person or event. Though not necessarily a sculpture itself, memorials typically include statues (sometimes several) and often relief sculptures depicting famous events. Up until the 20th century, it was common for war heroes to be depicted on horses, a style sometimes referred to as equestrian sculptures.

A monument might be erected a long time after the commemorated event. Many monuments are shaped by the values of the patron and artist, at times erected as propaganda tools for a government's religion or ideology. Some monuments become controversial to posterity, in a few cases to the extent that they get relocated or dismantled.

Ancient sculpture

Some of the world's most interesting sculptures are those that puzzle and mystify us because the people who created them have long ago perished into the realm of archaeology. The sculptures though, endure as a tangible record of their existence on this world. Iconic examples include:

 * Great Sphynx of Giza - head of a man on the body of a lion, carved of bedrock by ancient Egyptians around 2500 BC
 * Olmec Heads of Southern Mexico - enormous heads up to 3½ meters high, carved of basalt by ancient Olmecs around 1200 BC
 * Moai Heads of Easter Island - elongated heads carved of volcanic tuff by Rapa Nui people around the 13th century

Classic sculpture
The term classical sculpture can refer to sculptures created in either ancient Greece, or in ancient Rome. Prolific artists using similar techniques could be found in both areas around the same time, generally defined as 500 BC to around 200 AD. (Works older than 500 BC are often referred to as being from the archaic period.) White marble, very fine attention to detail, and polished finishes generally characterize these sculptures, which tend to feature Gods and characters from Greek or Roman mythology. The Venus de Milo, a sculpture of the Goddess Aphrodite, is representative of classic sculpture.

Rennaissance

Sculpture pretty much died out as an art form for several centuries during the Dark Ages and the medieval era, but it became more prevalent in Italy during the Renaissance era, starting around the late 15th or early 16th century. Religious themes became common, as did sculptures that included children and animals, and busts became important as a sculptural form, often commissioned by vain merchants or politicians who probably also commissioned a few painters to do portraits. Florence was a hotbed of artistic activity, and Michaelangelo is one of the best-known Renaissance artists from that city.

During this era, the Catholic church was extremely rich and powerful and it held quite a bit of influence over the art world. The church frequently commissioned sculptors to create iconic statues for its churches and cathedrals. As colonialism expanded the reach of the church, so to did it expand the need for artists to produce work for the new colonies.

Modern and contemporary sculpture
Modernism brought with it new ideas about what sculptures should represent and how they should be made. Sculptures started to represent concepts rather than people (or events) and materials could be anything, from common household items to garbage. Dutch artist Willem de Kooning once complained that art dealer Leo Castelli was such a shmoozer, he could even sell beer cans as art. Jasper Johns supposedly tested that theory by producing a sculpture titled Painted Bronze, which consisted of two cans of Ballantine Ale. Not only did Castelli sell it, the work is now displayed in the Whitney Museum in New York City.

Contemporary artists push the envelope of meaning even further with sub-genres like light sculpture and sound sculpture, which create an experience, but not a three-dimensional object with roundness. In many cases, the works may seem ephemeral, here for an instant, gone the second the power switch gets turned off. Are these really "sculptures" at all?

Museums

Sculptures are such an integral part of the visual arts that every major art museum in the world will have some good sculptures. Some that stand out are:

 * Louvre, Paris: If the Venus de Milo isn't reason enough, the Nike of Samothrace is arguably cooler looking and also ancient Greek from about 190 BC (and of course there are hundreds of other sculptures to keep you busy all day)
 * Vatican Museum, Rome: If you're expecting a religious museum, you might be disappointed, but if you're expecting one of the world's great art museums with tons of really old stuff including a great collection of classical Roman sculpture, then you're in luck. The most iconic sculpture is probably The Discus Thrower from about 190 AD, but be sure to check out August from Prima Porta: a full statue of the first Roman emperor, from about 20 BC.
 * British Museum, London: There's been a big row between the UK and Greece around a series of relief sculptures (often referred to as the "Parthenon Marbles" or "Elgin Marbles") that British cultural vandal, Thomas Bruce, stole from the Parthenon in Athens in 1801 and then sold to the British government. Greece wants their sculptures back but London says, "Robbers keepers, losers weepers." Meanwhile, you can see the controversial looted sculptures for the mere price of a museum admission ticket. They really are quite stunning.
 * Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum, Xi'an: One of the world's most amazingly complex and intricate works of sculpture is China's infamous Terracotta Army, consisting of over 8,000 warrior sculptures plus horses pulling chariots and horses with mounted cavalry warriors. The sculptures were made following the death in 210 BC of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. The sculptures were buried with him to protect him in the afterlife. The site had been lost to the shifting sands of time until 1974 when Yang Zhifa and his brothers discovered the mausoleum while digging a well on their farm.

Sculpture gardens
Sculptures are frequently displayed in outdoor settings. Many art museums, grand houses, and royal residences have elaborate gardens that include any number of statues or other sculptures. At some point, the focus on sculptures becomes greater than the focus on the plants in the garden, and people start calling it a "sculpture garden" rather than simply a "garden".

In the 20th century, it became common for cities to build large parks as a showcase for contemporary artists to create site-specific sculptures. The larger ones are typically called "sculpture parks" rather than gardens. Some well-known sculpture gardens and parks include:

Asia

North America

Memorials
Many monuments and memorials either are, or contain statues or other types of sculpture. Some of the world's most iconic examples are:

Oddities
Sculptors sometimes use their creativity in unexpected ways, producing grand works that makes people scratch their heads thinking, "What the heck is that thing?" These may be considered "visionary art". Sometimes these become tourist attractions in their own right.

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Wikivoyage:Guide articles

A guide article is a status rating for any article in Wikivoyage that is essentially complete. This is what a Wikivoyage article is intended to be. Not only would you not need to consult another guide, you'd really have no reason to want to: it's all here.

Guide articles aren't necessarily perfect... just very close. For example, a city guide might lack a static map, some of the listings might not exactly match our manual of style. The article may have perfect spelling and grammar but the prose is a bit dry and wikipedic. This prevents them from being considered "star" articles, which are the ones we hold up as examples of just how great a Wikivoyage article can become.

See also: Stub articles, Outline articles, Usable articles, Star articles.

Identification
The criteria for what makes a "guide" article varies depending on what the subject is. For example, an article about a city must have multiple hotel and restaurant listings, but that doesn't make sense for an article about an entire region, which should instead have a listing of the cities in that region. National parks may have limited amenities by design, to keep them in their natural state; if one small, isolated remote village offers few or no options, its article should simply say so. Obviously the criteria for an itinerary, travel topic or phrasebook would be even more different.

See Project:Article status for an overview of article status criteria, or the following links for guide criteria for specific article types:

 * Project:City article status (also for districts)
 * Project:Region article status (also for continents and continental sections)
 * Project:Country article status
 * Project:Itinerary status
 * Project:Travel topic status
 * Project:Phrasebook status
 * Project:Park article status
 * Project:Airport article status
 * Dive guide article status criteria

A complete list of all current "guide" articles can be found in Category:Guide articles.

Tag
If you find an article that meets the criteria for "guide" but hasn't been tagged as such, or if you improve an article to the point that it qualifies, please tag it.

There is special markup in our software to mark something as a guide article. Unlike the "stub" tag, which is generic enough to apply to any kind of article, we have different tags for the different kinds of articles. For example, the tag for a guide about a city looks like this:   which makes this appear on the page:

The other kinds of "guide" tags are , , , , , , , , and .

You can add one of these messages at the bottom of the page. This tells readers that this article should be all they'll need to plan their visit... but acknowledges that there's always room for improvement (and updates) and invites them to make the article even better.

Improve
If you find a "guide" article and you can see what's holding it back from becoming a "star"... plunge forward! If you know your way around Illustrator or Inkscape, make a map for it. If you have a good eye for detail, comb through the listings and fix any formatting mistakes. If you have a flair for the English language, give the text a full-body massage with a happy ending, and make it sing. Give the article that final nudge from "great" to "superb".

The specific criteria varies depending on the kind of article (i.e. city, country, etc.) but a star article is as good as it gets. At that point it's a guide to be proud of, and should be nominated to be a "star".

When an article is just starting out, we often need all the information we can get to get the article started, and style and detail comes second. Even some touting is occasionally tolerated just to get information in the guide. Additions to guide articles should try to maintain the articles quality, and comply with the style guidelines whenever possible. However, this doesn't mean that you shouldn't always plunge forward to add your latest discovery at a destination.

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Wikivoyage:Help

Understand

 * About Wikivoyage
 * Welcome, newcomers
 * Welcome, Wikipedians – we're very much like—and unlike—that great encyclopedia
 * Welcome, business owners – hoteliers, restauranteurs, barkeepers, etc.
 * Welcome, tourism professionals – we're all about cooperation
 * FAQ – fearfully anticipated questions... and answers.
 * Copyleft – information about the license and philosophy that guides this site

Finding travel information

 * Finding travel information (part of the Welcome, newcomers page)
 * List of itineraries
 * Directory of travel topics
 * Help for the search function

Contribute

 * Quick contribution guide – eager to get contributing? A guide to making a useful contribution to Wikivoyage in just a few minutes
 * Tips for new contributors – useful information for first-time contributors
 * Manual of style – spelling, layout, formatting rules and article skeletons
 * Policies and guidelines – an index of all Wikivoyage policy guidelines
 * Ways to help Wikivoyage – writers, editors, photographers and cheerleaders are all needed
 * How to – step by step instructions for specific tasks
 * How to edit a page
 * Wiki markup – how to add links, boldface, headings and lots more
 * Geocoding, creating static and dynamic maps.
 * Banners, creating cropped images for page banners
 * Software features – guides to using MediaWiki functions
 * Project:Tips for improving articles on unfamiliar destinations

Talk

 * Travellers' pub – for general discussions about Wikivoyage
 * Arrivals lounge – a place for new contributors to post questions about Wikivoyage and get responses from experienced contributors.
 * Project:Using talk pages – to communicate with other users directly.
 * Wikivoyage jargon – explains some of the abbreviations, words and phrases used in discussions, edit summaries etc.
 * Bug reports and feature requests
 * Babel – language indicators on user home pages
 * Wikivoyagers by location – if you need help from a local, and there are no docents for the destination yet, try one of these people
 * Get-together

Re-use

 * How to re-use travel guides – see how you can reuse our free travel guides in your application or website.

Reference

 * Namespace index – all the pages in the Wikivoyage: namespace

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Wikivoyage:Hierarchy

Wikivoyage has a hierarchy of people involved in the community, with varying levels of importance in the project. People lower on the hierarchy are expected to serve those above them, and make life easier for them.

Here's the hierarchy, from top to bottom:

Wikivoyage also has a hierarchical arrangement of its travel guides. This is described at Project:Geographical hierarchy
 * 1) Travellers. Travellers are at the top of the hierarchy. Creating a travel guide for them is our primary goal; everything else is secondary. Everyone in the community should do whatever it takes to make sure that travellers have clear, concise, up-to-date and reliable information on wherever they're going, however they can.
 * 2) Casual editors. Casual editors are the lifeblood of Wikivoyage. The world is very, very big, and without the input of many, many casual editors, we can't serve travellers well. Everyone else involved in Wikivoyage needs to make sure that casual editors can do their job right. Therefore, we need to make sure that casual editors can quickly and easily edit any page, and share their important knowledge.
 * 3) Dedicated editors. These are editors who come back repeatedly. They organize and elaborate on the input of casual editors. They organize the guide so it's easy for travellers to find information, and for casual editors to know what already is covered, and to put their knowledge somewhere it can be found. They make policies and create guidelines so that all editors can present their knowledge in a consistent and readable way. They revert vandalism and fact-check mistakes, and try to inform all editors how to best serve travellers. They welcome new editors, answer questions, and help work out differences on talk pages.
 * 4) Administrators. These dedicated editors are trusted to do the janitorial work that requires tools that could damage the wiki if used by unskilled operators. They are also expected to know the policies and direct users to the appropriate guidance pages, before returning to their more mundane tasks. They are not paid and have no real authority, but somebody has to do it.
 * 5) Bureaucrats. These administrators do the occasional poking around in the fusebox needed to activate new administrators and other arcane work. They are otherwise indistinguishable from the rest of the janitorial crew.

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Wikivoyage:How to

Editing how to

 * How to edit a page
 * How to edit with wiki markup
 * How to revert edits
 * How to start a new page
 * How to start a disambiguation page
 * How to redirect a page
 * How to rename a page
 * How to delete a page
 * How to merge two pages
 * How to add an image
 * How to add geographical co-ordinates (geocoding)
 * How to draw static maps
 * How to use dynamic maps

User how to

 * How to create a user account
 * How to describe yourself
 * How to become a destination docent
 * How to use talk pages
 * How to handle unwanted edits

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Wikivoyage:How to add an image

Articles in Wikivoyage can be greatly enhanced with the strategic addition of illustrative images. This article describes how to add images to a page.

Before you start, however, make sure you have read our image policy. It will tell you when and how we use images, and also what kind of images are allowed.

Find available images
In order to add an image to an article, it has to be uploaded to our database first. Wikimedia Commons is the shared image database used by all Wikimedia projects, including Wikivoyage. If the image you want to add is already there, simply follow the steps below to directly include it in a Wikivoyage article. Of course you can also add images of your own, or freely licensed images you've found on other websites. In fact, you are very much encouraged to contribute to our collection of free images! In that case, upload them first and then follow the same steps below. See How to upload files to get started.

Including images in an article
To include your uploaded image in an article, click the image icon on the edit page. Then, copy the filename from Commons (displayed as the title) and add a suitable caption.

The other inputs in the pop-up are optional and change the size and positioning of the image. Please read our Image Policy first.

When you're ready, click 'insert' and the image will be added to the place where you left the cursor.

If you don't want to use the pop-up, you may instead include the following line in the text,

 *  filename of image

This will produce a right-aligned thumbnail with a description below; the image will expand to full size if clicked on. For example, the thumbnail on the right uses File:Saddleback Pier.JPG from Commons, and it's created like this:

 * Saddleback Pier.JPG

Please use thumbnails unless you have a good reason not to. To change the size of the image, see "Sizing" below.

Alignment
Some other formatting possibilities are:

 * Simple interpolation of images into text : filename of image
 * Centered image : filename of image
 * Left-aligned image : filename of image
 * Right-aligned image : filename of image

Providing a description of the image is useful for low-resolution computers, where the image may not be rendered, and for accessibility for disabled Wikivoyage users.

Frame and Caption
You can also give a frame and a caption text to an image by

 * Simple frame and caption text : filename of image
 * Left-aligned frame : filename of image
 * Image without a frame : filename of image

Framing a picture in this manner will default the picture to its original size.

Sizing

 * Exact image width in pixels : filename of image
 * Exact thumbnail width in pixels : filename of image

You must add the letters "px" after the image size. Recommended maximum sizes are:
 * 250px for normal image thumbnails
 * 400px for the article's lead picture
 * 500px for maps containing small detail

You do not need to specify the height of the image, as the size will automatically scale to match the width you have entered.

If you want to specify an exact image size (width) which is not the same as the original, selecting a factor of the original may result in a clearer scaled image. For example, if the original is 800 pixels wide, 400 (1:2), 267 (1:3) or 200 (1:4) will scale nicely; for 640, try 320 (1:2) or 160 (1:4). This is particularly important for images containing small text, such as maps.

Finding images
There are a bunch of great sources on the web for images compatible with our CC-by-SA copyleft. Good starting places include Wikimedia Commons, CC Search (Creative Commons), and Flickr — just make sure that the images you find are indeed listed under a compatible license.

Other useful sources include geograph (for UK images), ...

Google image search is a useful tool for finding images with a compatible licence. Go to Google advanced image search and in the filter options select labelled for commercial reuse with modification. This should ensure that almost all of the images returned in your search will be compatible with our CC-by-SA copyleft.

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Wikivoyage:How to add travel news

Adding news to Travel news
To add a news item to Travel news, please use Template:Newsitem. The syntax is as follows:

Please choose a snappy headline of around 5 words maximum. Capitalize like a news headline (all nouns, pronouns and verbs, and all other words of four or more letters), do not add punctuation at the end.

Here is an example of what to enter:

And this is how it looks after you save:

Note that the third parameter, the description, will appear when the template is transcluded on Travel news.

Adding news to Main Page
Here are the steps to follow for adding a Travel news item onto the Main Page. Not all news items need to be posted there, priority should be given to important, unexpected or urgent events affecting travel. Please also cut down the item to only 2-3 sentences.

 * Edit the main page. The content will look like this:

 * Determine whether your item fits better into the "Travel alerts" section or the "Current and upcoming events" section. Add it immediately above the first item in that section and, if there are more than nine items in the section, remove the bottom item (also remove any bottom items that are out-of-date, regardless of whether there are nine items yet).  The end result should look like this, if you added a "Current and upcoming event":

 * Hit Save, then copy your news item into the Travel news page as well. You're done!

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Wikivoyage:How to create a map/Expert maps

Expert maps
This process can be used to create full-fledged Wikivoyage maps with automatically placed and indexed icons for sights, restaurants, hotels, etc.

Prerequisites: Access to a machine running modern flavors of Unix, preferably Linux and most preferably Ubuntu. Also, the Wikivoyage destination that you want to map must already be using the new listings tag format.

Process Overview
The map creation process now follows these steps:

 * 1) Download and install the Osmatravel scripts (formerly known as wtp-maps)
 * 2) Find your destination in OpenStreetMap
 * 3) Choose to either collect the map coordinates or create a boundary relation to define the region to be mapped
 * 4) Add an appropriate image tag to your article to configure the map create
 * 5) Run the scripts to generate an SVG image
 * 6) "Edit OSM" as necessary to improve your map
 * 7) Regenerate the SVG Image
 * 8) Examine and adjust the SVG as necessary
 * 9) Upload the SVG to Wikivoyage shared
 * 10) Run the scripts to generate a PNG image
 * 11) Upload the PNG to Wikivoyage shared

Download and install the scripts

 * Install xmlstarlet as per the instruction on their website (sudo apt-get install xmlstarlet will install it on Ubuntu)

 * Download the current Gitorious tarball of the Osmatravel (formerly wtp-maps) scripts.

 * Unpack the tarball somewhere convenient, in your home directory for instance, or perhaps in $HOME/src.

tar -xvzf osmatravel-osmatravel-master.tar.gz

 * This will create a new directory "osmatravel-osmatravel/" containing the scripts. Enter the directory.

cd osmatravel-osmatravel

 * The first time you run the scripts you'll have to specify an article. If it's the first time you've generated a map for a given article it's best to do it in steps.  For instance if you simply want to generate a config file for a particular article you can do this:

make Config.mk ARTICLE=Paris/1st_arrondissement

Please note that spaces in the article name should be replaced by underscores (_), and parentheses should be replaced with %28 for left parenthesis and %29 for right parenthesis.

 * You can reconfigure the scripts to use a different destination any time you like by doing something like this:

make clean; make Config.mk ARTICLE=Paris/2nd_arrondissement

Choose a method for defining the bounding box
When you are configuring an article for map generation for the first time you have a choice to make about how you configure the map's bounding box.

 * You can draw a relation boundary around the are which you mean to map. The Osmatravel scripts will calculate a rectangular bounding box which contains this relation, regardless of its shape, plus some padding.

 * You can copy the lat-long coordinates of the corners of a rectangular area as viewed in OSM.

Each method has advantages: if you draw a relation it will be rendered in the map as a slightly lighter grey, giving the destination part of your map a little more visual relief. If you configure exact lat-long coordinates the scripts will run a bit faster. If you want both advantages you can use both methods.

Configure an Image tag for the map in Wikivoyage
The Osmarender scripts now take their configuration information for a given destination from the Wikivoyage article itself. This means that all configuration data for any particular map project is publicly available under a version of the CC by-sa license.

Configuration is done by adding some extra attributes to a MediaWiki Image tag for an appropriately named image. A couple of these are required by the scripts in order to render a map, but some of them are optional:

Required Attributes
or
 * relid
 * border
 * Is_in

Optional Attributes

 * expand_for_listings
 * listings_placement
 * box_width
 * box1_x
 * box1_y
 * box2_x
 * box2_y
 * box3_x
 * box3_y
 * box4_x
 * box4_y

Examples

 * From Paris/8th_arrondissement

Generate map

 * Run the command make. This will automatically do the following:
 * 1) Download the OSM data within the border defined earlier into data.osm
 * 2) Download the Wikivoyage article
 * 3) Extract all its listing names into listings.txt
 * 4) Match the listings against the OSM data
 * 5) Create a vector map called map.svg, including icons for all listings it could match
 * 6) Create a vector listings box called listings.svg

 * Check the file unmatched.txt, which contains all Wikivoyage listings not found in the OSM data. If something did not match properly...
 * If you fixed the mistake in Wikivoyage and saved your change, then run make wt-clean and run make again.
 * If you fixed the mistake in OSM, then re-export the data and run make again.

Edit in OSM

 * Browse to the OpenStreetMap site and browse to your destination.

 * Click the [Edit] tab, which loads the Potlatch flash editor in your browser. [Play] around, read the docs and watch the video at the Potlatch page until you feel comfortable; then [Start] mapping.

 * Odds are other kind OSMers have already added the streets and basic city features, so your job now is to add and check the Wikivoyage listings.

 * To add a new listing, double-click on a point on the map to create a new node. Choose the appropriate type (below), then click the [+] icon (lower left corner) and add new tags to it.  The important tag is name, which must match the Wikivoyage listing's name exactly.  However, if Wikivoyage is using the English name but OSM is not, you can add a name:en tag to the OSM node.

The following is a quick reference for mapping Wikivoyage listings to OSM map features. The complete list is available here.

Note that these tags are used by OSM only and are, at the moment and in general, not needed for Wikivoyage map generation.

 * To define the edges of your map, draw a way around the edges of the area, connecting back to the starting point.
 * Depending on your requirements, this can be a simple square box or a complicated district polygon.
 * Do not define it as a road or anything, just leave it as an unnamed way.
 * Click on the Relation Editor button (the "chain link" icon on the left side) in Potlatch.
 * Select "Create new relation".
 * Enter "type": "border". Click [+] to add a new tag, enter "name" and the Destination you entered earlier in Config.mk.  Click [+] once more, enter "Is_In" and the Region from Config.mk.  (See screenshot for an example.)

Clean up map

 * Load up map.svg in your favorite SVG editor, eg. Inkscape.
 * Find your city center. (OSM exports often contain lengthy roads and rivers sticking way out of the selected region, so you may need to zoom around.)
 * Draw a horizontal rectangle with Fill: None.
 * Select the rectangle with the pointer tool and set W(width) to 300.8 and H (height) to 173.0.
 * If you want a vertical rectangle, swap around the height and width.
 * If you have a large area, you can use multiple rectangles to cover it.
 * Resize the rectangle to your liking while pressing down CTRL; this keeps the proportions constant.
 * OSM exports may have overlapping city names, icons under streets and other slight messiness. Clean up the area within the rectangle to your liking.

 * When finished, select the rectangle and choose File > Export Bitmap... from the menu. Choose "Selection" and enter 3008x1730 px as the size.  Save it as "Destination-raw.png".
 * Close map.svg.

Check readability
If this is the first time you're exporting this city, this is a good moment to verify that the map is readable when printed. Load the map in GIMP (or another bitmap editor) and set Image > Print size... to be 6.875in wide and 3.95in high, then print it out on your printer (in grayscale mode). If you can read the street names without squinting, it's fine.

Finalize and export map

Type the following command:

make png

If Inkscape is properly installed the scripts will run it in the background. Next they will run the Gimp to reduce the colorspace of the image for the web. You should now find a PNG image in the directory named for your article, and ready for upload to Wikivoyage shared. You should examine it just in case.

Congratulations -- your map is done!


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Wikivoyage:How to create a user account

You may want to create a user account to give yourself a distinct identity on Wikivoyage. Wikivoyagers with user accounts get a User page, and their user name is used for page histories. They also have the ability to mark their changes as minor and can add pages to a watchlist. They can also communicate with other Wikivoyagers through their personal talk page.

You can set up a user account by following the Log in link on (practically) any page on Wikivoyage.

You'll need to choose a user name for yourself. This should be short, unique, and not obscene, offensive or misleading. It can have upper and lower case letters and numbers, but you should avoid using spaces or punctuation marks. Above all, do not use the ampersand symbol (&) as this will make your user pages almost inaccessible, after you create them.

You also need a password. Choose a strong password with letters, numbers, and punctuation characters. Enter your new password in the fields labelled Your password and Retype password. (Note that, unless you have specified an e-mail address for your account, lost passwords cannot be recovered for the time being.)

Optionally, enter an email address where you can be reached in the Your e-mail field. This is entirely optional, but can be helpful if other users want to send you email through Wikivoyage. On extremely rare occasions, Wikivoyage Administrators may need to contact you, and having your email helps. See the Wikimedia Foundation Privacy policy for more info.

Also and optionally, you can enter your "real name". If you don't want to have your real name shown, just leave this blank.

You can change your password, email address, and real name later with the user preferences tool. Your username cannot be changed (easily), so please think twice about what name you choose.

Once you have a user account set up, you may want to use the Preferences page to customize the way Wikivoyage behaves for you in the way it displays dates, the size of thumbnail images, etc.

Describing yourself
Once you have registered a Wikivoyage account, you can describe yourself on your user page if you wish to. Other contributors may find it easier to communicate with you and may even ask for your help sometimes.

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Wikivoyage:How to describe yourself

Once you are a registered as a Wikivoyager, you can tell a little about yourself so other contributors find it easier to communicate with you (and even ask for your help sometimes).

Wikivoyagers can write: or anything else they would like to say about themselves.
 * where they live,
 * what languages they speak
 * what countries they have visited before;
 * how other contributors can contact them between their visits to Wikivoyage--for example, to clarify their contributions (if they would like to be available for them).

You can list yourself in Project:List of Wikivoyagers by location.

If you have a good knowledge of a specific region, consider becoming a docent for that destination, so others can ask questions not covered in the article yet.

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Wikivoyage:How to draw static maps

In this age of satellites and GPS, you no longer need to be a professional cartographer to draw an accurate map. The following instructions are for creating standard Wikivoyage maps using Inkscape (a free image-creating program available for most operating systems). The process using other drawing tools is similar.

Overview
Wikivoyage maps are composed in a file format called SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). These files contain collections of objects displayed as "vectors"—shapes that can viewed at any magnification without ever appearing pixelated. In the case of Wikivoyage maps, these vectors will represent streets, geographical features, etc.

Inkscape's logic is based on building structures of different objects as various vectors, icons and text labels within different layers within an SVG file.

When the SVG map is finished, a bitmapped file should be created in PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format as all web browsers can display PNG files. Then both versions are uploaded: one for future editors to update (SVG), and the other to include in the destination's Wikivoyage article (PNG).

Tools
You will need some tools in order to build maps. The most critical is a vector-based drawing program capable of producing SVG-format files, preferably Inkscape.

 * Inkscape is an open-source (free) tool, for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Please use the most current version, to avoid compatibility issues.

Other vector-based drawing programs (e.g., Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Sodipodi and Freehand) can be used, but this article deals with drawing maps using Inkscape.

In addition, there are two fonts you must have installed:
 * DejaVu Sans and DejaVu Sans Condensed are used in Wikivoyage maps. Both can be found here.

Map types and their templates
There are two key Wikivoyage map types, and it is important to be sure which category is most appropriate for your map, as the template used is different.

City or district street map
This is a detailed map of a city area most appropriate for articles created using the small city or district templates. This map type is also often appropriate for articles created with the park article template.

The map template we use can be downloaded here. Two examples follow of different types of city/district street maps, which you may find helpful as inspiration for the content and final look of your map. Both were created using the same district map template (click either to enlarge).

The Dupont Circle map is a detailed street map of a smallish city district. The London Hampstead map covers a much larger district and therefore shows less (but still considerable) detail.

Country or region map
This is a map of a country or a region most appropriate for articles created using the country, region or huge city templates.

Wikivoyage has a special expedition for country/region map making. If you are planning to draw a map of this type, then we strongly recommend that you read that article and consider joining the expedition. For specifics on the colour palette, symbols used and what have you for a country or region map, please refer to the region maps expedition and its talk page.

The region map template is available here. Two examples follow of different types of regional maps which you may find helpful as inspiration for the content and final look of your map. Both were created using the same region map template (click either to enlarge).

The Thailand country map shows the regions of the country, the main transport routes and major destinations. The Chicago map shows the extent of the city, major transport routes and its main district divisions. Note that both maps show surrounding land and water areas; this is important, lest the area of your map look like an island floating in a sea of white.

Color codes for each region of the map can be found at Template:StdColor.

Specialist maps
Additionally, there are some specialist map types such as dive sites and layout diagrams of monuments. If you are planning to draw a specialist map of this nature, then we suggest you download an appropriate existing SVG map and familiarise yourself with the structure and style used.

Creating your map
The instructions and advice which follow apply mostly to the creation of a city or district street map. Once you have mastered this type of map though, you should have no problems with country or region maps.

Options
Here are four suggestions for map-making methods:

 * 1) Instant maps, simply copied from OpenStreetMap.org, with no specific travel information;
 * 2) Maps drawn by hand from a base image;
 * 3) Maps imported from OpenStreetMap and then processed in Inkscape;
 * 4) Maps generated with Travegeo

You also, of course, can look around Wikimedia Commons for existing SVG maps that you may be able to use on Wikivoyage by making modifications to bring the aesthetics in line with our standards as present on the templates, and by adding travel icons and annotation.

Instant maps
This easy three-step process can be used to create simple city street maps.

 * 1) Surf to openstreetmap.org.  Navigate to your destination of choice.
 * 2) Click on the Export tab.  Make sure "Mapnik Image" is selected and that the "Image Size" is sensible (between 2000x2000 and 3000x3000 is good).  Click the Export button to download.
 * 3) Rename "map.png" as something more sensible and upload it to Wikimedia Commons.  You're done!

Hand drawn maps
Hand drawn maps can potentially be the most elegant and accurate (when traced over a high quality satellite base image), and are a fantastic way to start getting familiar with how SVG files work—since you'll be making them from the ground up!

It's a good idea to download File:Template for regions explained.svg before editing; this will give you the colors and patterns needed for the map.

Acquire a base image
In order to trace a new map, you will need either an existing map or other image to trace it from (which must be compatible with our Copyleft—either in the Public Domain, or under an appropriate Creative Commons license). There are a number of possible sources:

 * OpenStreetMap.org is the best place to look for existing maps with street level detail as a source for the transport network of your map. Using OSM as a background image, you can trace lines for a map, though keep in mind that OSM uses the Mercator projection by default. (It can be changed to other projections, including equirectangular.)
 * It is possible to use exported SVG files from OpenStreetMap and thereby eliminate the need for any tracing. See for detailed instructions.
 * The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection and UN Cartographic Section are good sources for existing country maps (although their road networks are not always very accurate). But the Project:Regions map Expedition has now finished every last country in the world, so this has become less important!
 * All NASA WorldWind (dead link) satellite images in the The Landsat Global Mosaic (except for i-3 visible layer), Blue Marble, and the USGS layers are in the public domain and are therefore fully compatible with our copyleft—they do not even require attribution. Unfortunately, however, there will usually not be high-enough resolution images in the public domain available for locations outside of the United States of America.
 * Wikimedia Commons is a good place to start looking for existing maps. Browse their images by category, e.g., Category:Maps of Malaysia or Category:SVG maps of Ireland.

Your base image should be imported into a new layer which you create in your map file (layer, add layer). We recommend that you call this layer Base.

Keep in mind that many maps that are found on the internet, including Google Maps, are not under a free license; anything that's is not under an appropriate Creative Commons is a big no-no. It will be deleted on Commons as a derivative of a copyvio.

Define the background
Create a new layer called Background and using the Bézier pen (the pen symbol on the left toolbar) draw a line around the image you imported as an object to match the size of your map.

Depending on where your map is located, you will need to fill the Background layer with either grey or the Wikivoyage water pattern. This is achieved by selecting the object, click object from the top menu and then fill and stroke (shortcut: shift+ctrl+f). In the menu box that appears, for a medium grey fill enter 8e908dff into the RGBA box (or use the eye dropper to select this colour from the template) and for a water pattern, select the checkboard pattern button and then pattern8479 from the drop down box. Do not use a stroke.

You should now have a filled Background layer which obscures the Base layer containing your base image. To reveal the base image again, desaturate the filled background layer using the opacity slider in the fill and stroke menu box. By taking it down to about 20% you should be able to clearly see your base image. You can also just turn off the selected layer by clicking the eye symbol in the layers box.

Define the foreground
Create a layer for your main map. We suggest you call this layer Foreground. Once again using the Bézier pen, lay out the area of your map.

Once that is done, change the properties to reflect the desired pale grey area for your main map area. Use fill: d0d0d0ff, no stroke.

You should now see your desired map area completely filled. As with the background layer, you will either need to use the opacity slider to desaturate the fill or turn off the layer to see the base image below it.

Building your street grid
Create a new layer called Streets and bring that layer to the top (shift+ctrl+home). Use the Bézier pen tool layout the road grid of your map. Roads should be white, so set the stroke colour to ffffffff, and no fill colour.

Set the unit of measurement for the stroke width to mm (far easier to visualise mm than pixels!). The stroke width should be set to an appropriate width for the road you are tracing. You will almost certainly have roads of different widths on your map and it is easier to trace each width together. A good way to keep your streets organized is to combine the paths of the same width into one path. To do so, simply select more than one path, then select "combine" from the "path" menu (ctrl+k).

If you wish to show any other transportation routes such as light railways, subway trains or rail lines etc., they should be drawn now and added to a separate layer. Use stroke colours and widths that work best on your map.

To create a black & white dotted rail line (popular among many Wikivoyage mapmakers), create a solid black (or white) line, duplicate it (ctrl+d) and then set the duplicate line's fill to white and select dashes from the stroke style box (ctrl+shift+f).

Sometimes it is desirable to show footpaths, trails, pedestrian roads, etc. This should be done using a dashed line, with the stroke color eeeccbff.

Draw the geography
Create a new layer called Geography and bring that layer to the top (shift+ctrl+home).

Lay out any green spaces, again using the Bézier pen, this time with the Wikivoyage park pattern as fill (pattern15875), stroke color 406c86ff and a stroke width of 0.05mm. If the green area fills up an entire city block between streets, you can set stroke off, draw the area so it overlaps the streets, and then just push the layer down later.

Follow the same process for any bodies of water but use fill: pattern8479, stroke colour: 406c86ff, stroke width: 0.05mm.

Rivers should ideally be drawn with a stroke colour matching the pattern color for water (9ccec9ff), but if they are not showing up clearly enough, try something like 053bd7ff. The stroke width should match the scale of the river you are tracing.

Once this layer is complete, set it to be the layer below the Streets layer and below other transportation layers. Moving layers up and down is relatively straightforward in Inkscape. You can do this either by selecting layer, then raise layer or lower layer, or by using the shortcuts of shift+ctrl+PgUp and shift+ctrl+PgDn.

Major buildings
If (only if) your map contains any major buildings or landmarks which you wish to be defined, create a layer above Main area later called Buildings and draw them there. For these the fill color is 8e908dff, the stroke color is 808080ff and the stroke width is again 0.05mm.

Labelling
Create a new layer called Street names and bring that layer to the top (shift+ctrl+home).

It's generally best to use the DejaVu Sans bold font, which displays more clearly at small resolutions, especially when printed for offline use. Label each of your streets (or as many as is practical/desirable).

At this stage you can also place any other labels required:
 * Lake or pond names: use font colour 006bffff
 * River names: use font colour 053bd7ff
 * Park names: a label over the top of the park pattern normally looks best in white.
 * Neighbourhood names, building names etc.: often look best in dark grey and not black (e.g.: 1a1a1aff) and italicised.

Annotate the map
Your street map is now ready and it's time to turn it into a travel guide.

Before doing so though it worth recapping what your file structure should now look like. You should have the following layers present:

 * Street names
 * Roads
 * Geography
 * Buildings (perhaps)
 * Streets
 * Other transportation routes (perhaps)
 * Main area
 * Background
 * Base

Now, create two new layers called Travel icons and Key and bring them to the top.

Depending on the scale of your map, you might need to resize the travel icons provided in the template. To resize icons use menu option object, transform, scale and scale them to a size that will work on your map (ctrl+m). (select multiple objects at once by pressing F1 and drawing a selection rectangle around them). You can copy and paste the required icons from the template.

On the template, you will see a white listings box. This should be copied and pasted into the Key layer. It can be re-sized and re-shaped to best fit your map and the volume of listings it is going to contain. Edit the text in the listings box so that it contains all listings from the article (for see/do, buy, eat, drink, sleep, and contact listings) numbered and in alphabetical order.

Take all the entries of the Wikivoyage article and start placing them in the map, editing them as you go to make sure the numbers to align with those in the listings box. Ideally, you would know exactly where everything goes already but an online address locator like Google Maps is very handy for refreshing your memory. You can change the icon numbers by selecting the text tool, clicking on top of the icon, and then editing the number. Make sure not to change the font of the text in travel icons—it is formatted for maximum readability (especially when printed) at minimum size.

You should now also copy from the template and paste into this layer the inset title box (scale (ctrl-m or ctrl or alt+ ) and edit as necessary), the scale (adjust as necessary) and the north arrow (scale as necessary). Please remember to take the extra time to add an accurate scale—it's extremely important for travelers determining just how far they'll be walking. An easy way to do this is to just match your scale to the one on your base image.

Note: It is critical to follow the above instructions insofar as you maintain separate layers for any text that could conceivably need translation into other languages, as this will make the process far, far more easy.

Finishing off
You should now have all the elements of your map completed and the following steps should ensure that it is finished off nicely:

 * Change the properties of any desaturated layers back to 100% using the opacity slider.

 * Create a final layer called Frame in which you mark out the exact area of the map you wish to be exported to the PNG file (and thereby the exact area of the map to be included in the article). This layer should always be the top layer, contain no fill and no stroke width. You can select it even without a fill or stroke by navigating to the Frame layer and pressing ctrl-a to select everything within that layer (do not create more than one object in the frame layer!).

 * It is a good idea to size your frame so that it can be exported at the exact resolution of 3008x1709 pixels. The thin green box on the template is already set to these proportions, so you only need to resize and/or rotate it to fit your map. For really big maps that are more square than rectangular, double the width of the box to 3008x3418, and it can then be printed as two pages.

 * Select your frame, then go to File and Document Properties. Click on "Resize page to content" and then "Resize page to drawing or selection". By doing this, thumbnails will appear correctly on Wikimedia Commons.

Export the finished map
Final checklist of layers that should be present:
 * Frame
 * Key
 * Street names
 * Travel icons
 * Map template
 * Buildings (perhaps)
 * Other transportation routes (perhaps)
 * Streets
 * Geography
 * Foreground
 * Background
 * Base

You should export a copy of your map to PNG by selecting your blank frame and hitting shift+ctrl+e. This allows you to easily control the size and shape of the export.

It is best to use PNG files, as opposed to raw SVGs, because SVGs do not always display well in various browsers, Wikivoyage does not offer support for SVG graphics, and most importantly, this will allow you and other editors much greater flexibility in coordinating, updating, and generally getting more use out of the SVG file (especially with regards to translating).

When exporting the bitmap, enter an appropriate width in pixels — 2,000-3,000 pixels is usually reasonable, as it will give a great result when printed. A smaller thumbnail of the map will go in the article itself, preferably at a resolution that will allow users to read all text within the article. Give the map a suitable name, click the export button under the "File" section. You should then get an option on the right to export the article, click this and you are done!

Alternatively you can customize the area you export by selecting "page" under "export area." This makes it relatively easy to get the exact frame for the map.

SVG imports from OSM
You can download and edit the road maps from OpenStreetMap in SVG format. These are a great base for creating Wikivoyage style maps, potentially saving loads of time otherwise spent tracing by hand. The flip side is they often contain too much data, and it takes a while to remove the unnecessary elements.

A number of different programs can be used for this, which have different strengths and weaknesses.

SVG from JOSM
JOSM is an editor for OpenStreetMap data which also has an export feature. JOSM allows you to download OSM data for the area you want, filter out the objects you're not interested in, and export to a simple SVG which you can then add styles to.

Follow these steps:
 * 1) Download JOSM from its website
 * 2) File->Download from OSM..., zoom to the area you want, then click Download
 * 3) (Click on a map object, and you should see its properties in one of the dialogs on the right side of the screen)
 * 4) Edit->Search... and input a search string. For example, "highway" (without quotes) will select all roads and streets, "highway:residential" will select all residential streets. You can then press Edit->Purge, and all highlighted objects (what you searched for) will be removed. This lets you quickly filter out the elements you don't want.
 * 5) *Alternatively, it is possible to sparse load data using the "Download from Overpass API" tab and the query wizard.
 * 6) Optional: Select all, then Tools->Simplify Way. Set the max error depending on the map coverage (for districts and small cities: 0.1-1 meters; for huge cities and small regions: 1-10 meters; large regions: 10-100 meters)
 * 7) Optional: follow these instructions to truncate lat/lon coordinates to 5 or fewer decimal places, saving disk space
 * 8) File->Save As..., choose GPX format, save to a GPX file
 * 9) Close JOSM. Choose "Exit now" (do not upload or save anything, since you have not made any useful edits to the OpenStreetMap data).
 * 10) Convert your GPX file to SVG format. If you have a Linux/Unix computer, this is easily and reliably done with the gpx2svg script. From any other computer, see the suggestions here.

SVG from Maperitive
Download and install Maperitive, an excellent, newbie-friendly program with a handy feature for exporting SVG files from OSM data. BrainCrunch wrote a handy guide to using Maperitive for SVG exports, but the quick version is as follows:

In Maperitive, first navigate to the area you want to export.
 * 1) Set boundaries using the Map -> Set Bounds menu button, and drag them how you like.
 * 2) Load the OSM content within those boundaries via Map -> Download OSM Data (Overpass API).
 * 3) Remove the web map by clicking on "Web map" at the bottom right in the "Map Sources" box, and then click on the red X.
 * 4) Export to SVG using the command prompt at the bottom of the screen. Enter (without quotes): "export-svg compatibility=inkscape zoom=X"

You can choose any number 1–19 for the zoom, which will decide how much detail is exported (and therefore how big the filesize will be). zoom=15 is the point at which street names are included, but you can preview how much detail you'll get simply by zooming in and out in Maperitive (the keyboard shortcuts are + and -). The current zoom level in Maperitive is always shown in the very bottom taskbar, e.g., "zoom 5.4748".

For exporting a large area, going lower than zoom=7 will usually mean the highways are left off.

Manage
OSM imports from Maperitive come with a ton of extraneous layers, and editing in them in Inkscape can place pretty big demands on your PC's memory (and Inkscape loves to crash). This section is a quick and dirty guide to keeping things manageable right from the start.

Save (Ctrl+S) between all steps, and vacuum definitions (File → Vacuum defs) after deleting major layers or items.

 * 1) Turn off the most resource intensive layers. Turn off "line artwork," save. Turn off "polygons," save. Turn off "labels," save.
 * 2) Delete "map frame" and "map grid" layers (but keep the map grid layers if you want to display latitude and longitude, for island archipelago maps, for example) and the floating label.
 * 3) You can delete tons of unnecessary items "polygons" by deleting clearly irrelevant layers without even turning them on to look at them (buildings, orchards, commercial areas, etc.), but you may want to keep "water," "national park," "nature reserve," and any other layers you think you'll want. Deleting buildings in particular helps a lot with reducing the filesize.
 * 4) Create rivers layer (if you want to keep them) and move everything from any river and stream (if you want extra stream details) sublayers of "Line artwork" to that new layer. Then turn the new "rivers" layer off and delete the now empty layers. The easiest way to select all the rivers and streams from different layers at once, in order to move them together, is to turn off or lock all non-river/stream layers and then click and drag to select.
 * 5) Do the same for all highway layers—put them in a new highway layer and delete the now empty layers.
 * 6) It's often useful to preserve the coastline in a separate layer in the same fashion.
 * 7) National Park and all "boundary" layers are usually useful, so be careful to keep them when removing layers from "line artwork."
 * 8) You'll notice that a lot of paths are clones. That's not helpful, so select them (one layer at a time) and use "Edit -> Clone -> Unlink clone" (or Shift+Alt+D) to unlink them. Remove any fill that is auto-added to them in the process, then vacuum defs, save, and watch the filesize decrease!
 * 9) Time to get creative. Import the regions map template to a new "template" layer, and adjust colors to match the Wikivoyage scheme. Create the regions layer, perhaps borrowing boundaries from one of the boundary layers in "Line artwork," add city markers and labels, key, etc. You can use the existing scale in the "Map decoration" layer to measure the Wikivoyage-style scale.

Other tips:

 * As Inkscape is not good at cropping, the fastest (i.e., least memory-intensive) method is to draw an object (like a rectangle) over the area you want to crop, and then use the difference tool by selecting the object on top and the target of the crop, then pressing Ctrl+-.
 * The small white streets in imports are the single biggest source of vector nodes that eat up your visual memory. Put them all in a "small streets" layer, and turn it off by clicking the eye icon next to the layer in the layers dialogue (this will render that layer invisible until you turn it back on). Now select a single little white street (Ctrl+click), then hit Ctrl+Shift+X to pull up the XML editor. Then copy the info listed under "style." Hit Ctrl+F to bring up the find box, and paste the style info into the style field, then hit enter. That should select all of the small white streets with that same style. Then hit Ctrl+G to group them, which will make it easier for your computer to move them to a different layer. Now Shift+PgUp to move the small street grid to the invisible "small streets" layer. That can take a while, but once it's done, the small streets will remain hidden until you need them, and won't bog down your system resources.

Convert
First text. Unfortunately the text in the "labels" layer of imported OSM SVGs is not usually that helpful. You will probably wind up deleting those layers and adding your own text. Be sure to use DejaVu Sans Condensed!

It's time to move on to the streets (the larger ones, since you already took care of the small ones in the "Manage" section above). You must select all objects of one type (e.g., red-colored streets), put them into one group (Ctrl+G), and then change the color to match the usual Wikivoyage scheme. To select all paths/objects of one category, use the find operation as described in the above section. Red-colored streets are easy to select, for example, simply enter "stroke:#eb9799" to the style box in the find operation to select all red-colored streets. Combine the streets into a group, then move them to a dedicated big streets layer. Repeat for all types of streets. To find unique attributes for the various street types, select one path, then open the XML editor (Shift+Ctrl+X), examine the style attribute, and find a unique value to enter into the find box. To match Wikivoyage color standards, change the stroke colors to white (although freeways/highways can be colored red or yellow to distinguish them from your average city street).

The colors of other objects, such as parks, buildings, and water areas, should also be changed to conform to Wikivoyage standards. This can be done in the same manner, using the find function to select all objects of a specific type, and then using the fill function to change the color (or pattern). Combining all the like objects into one path (Ctrl+K to combine a selection) will help keep things manageable. You can obtain standard colors and patterns here.

Finish
The final tasks are much more simple, but are time intensive. What is left is to add travel icons, a key, title, compass, scale, etc. These tasks are identical to those described in the section above for hand drawn maps.

SVG from Travegeo
Travegeo (formerly ShareMap) is a social mapping service that allows the creation of freely licenced (CC-SA-3) SVG maps. Maps created with Travegeo can afterwards be tweaked in classic SVG editors before uploading.

Key features

 * Ability to import specific type of objects from OpenStreetMap
 * Ability to import user data collected by GPS (using GPX format)
 * Ability to trace old printed map (especially interesting when you map historical features)
 * At the same time, both a static (also known as SVG) and interactive, dynamic map is created

Drawbacks

 * Sometimes the visual appearance has to be tweaked in Inkscape before publication
 * For performance reasons, OpenStreetMap backgrounds are embedded rasters
 * With large datasets, classic GIS tools (QGis, Grass GIS) are more stable than web based Travegeo.
 * Due to its migration from ShareMap after the closure of Adobe Flash, editing is temporarily disabled till March 2021.

Uploading your map
When uploading your map, please always do so to Wikimedia Commons and remember to upload both the bitmap (.png) and the vector (.svg) versions. That way others can add to your map at a later stage.

Help
The following Wikivoyage map-makers are happy to give specific help and advice to others. Please feel perfectly free to leave any questions and requests should be left on their user talk page—you are not bothering them!

 * User:LtPowers
 * SHB2000

Inkscape tips and tricks
Please all map-makers use this section to add useful tips and tricks for using Inkscape.

 * Use the edit path nodes tool (F2) for manipulating streets, since this keeps the stroke width constant.

 * To extend a street, select it with edit path nodes tool and then choose the Bézier tool. Any nodes you add will become a part of the same object.

 * Use ALT-cursor keys to 'nudge' objects into the right place.

 * Objects can be combined into layers, which can be made visible or invisible by clicking on the "eye" icon. The following layer stack makes it easy to 'peel part' various components of a map: background - satellite data - area highlight - street map - area annotations.

 * Locking layers that you are not actively working on can save you a lot of trouble by making it impossible to accidentally move or change objects on the locked layers.

 * Inkscape is not the most stable of programs and is prone to hanging. It has an autosave feature in the latest version, but it's not 100% reliable; remember to save your work regularly.

 * In Inkscape, be warned that grouping items together from different layers will bring them up to the layer of the highest item in the selection.

 * Combining paths (ctrl-k) or grouping (ctrl-g) paths with exactly the same attributes (streets, parks, water) can save a lot of time, as it allows you to change identical paths with a single click. To automatically select paths with the same attributes, hit ctrl-x to bring up the XML editor; highlight and copy (ctrl-c) an item relevant item under style (such as fill:XXXXXXFF); then hit ctrl-f to bring up the find box; and paste (ctrl-v) the item into the it's style field. From there press enter, and you will have selected every path in your SVG with that particular attribute!

 * The union, difference, and intersection tools from the path menu are incredibly useful for precise manipulation of objects. It will take a bit of experimentation to master their use, but this is especially worthwhile for handling complex geography, or creating interlocking color fields to display neighborhoods or regions on your map.

 * Before performing operations, always close the XML editor, which will otherwise display every individual change painfully slowly.

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Wikivoyage:How to edit a page

You can edit any article on Wikivoyage by clicking the edit link. You'll get a browser text-entry box with the current contents of the page formatted in Wiki markup. You can modify the page however you want, but anything you add must be compatible with Wikivoyage copyleft. It helps the rest of us if you follow our policies and guidelines and manual of style, but don't let that stop you from plunging forward. It's more important that you add something than that you do it perfectly.

Previewing and saving a page
To see what your changes will look like, hit the Show preview button, which will not save the page. Do a preview just before saving the page, to make sure your changes look right. When you're happy with the changes, hit the blue Publish changes button to post your changes.

You can cancel your edits by clicking the Cancel link and of course Editing help brings you here.

Beneath the article editing text box is a short field labelled Summary. This is for putting a short note (edit summary) about what you've done to an article, such as "added Ao Shai To hotel details" or "spelling 'miserible' -> 'miserable'" or "took out obsolete detour directions to Spanish Steps". It can be helpful for people who are looking at the Recent changes or Page history pages to quickly see what you did.

If you've edited a page but it doesn't seem to have changed you should probably look at Special:Recentchanges or the article's history, since it is likely that someone has done a rollback of your change, and may have given an informative reason.

Using the check boxes
If you are logged in to a user account there will be a This is a minor edit checkbox for marking your changes as "minor". The idea with this is that people reviewing page history or recent changes can filter out unimportant changes. It's up to you to determine what makes your changes "minor" -- usually, spelling corrections, grammar, or formatting changes are "minor", and changes to the real information on a page are not.

The Watch this article checkbox puts this article on your watchlist. Any changes to the article, or to the article's talk page, by you or anyone else will show up in your watchlist, so you can keep an eye on the article.

The default setting — whether these checkboxes are checked or not by default — can be set in your user preferences.

Starting new pages
If you are starting a new page from the beginning, please make use of our article skeletons which help to organize the information on a page and give a consistent look. See How to start a new page for more information.

Restoring previous article versions
If an editor changes or removes content from an article the old versions of the article are still available from the article's history. To view article history, click on the "history" tab for any article, then click on the date for the revision that you are interested in. To revert the article to the specified revision, simply click on the "edit" tab while viewing the old version and then re-save the version. Alternately, if you just want to revert a single edit, click on the "undo" link from an article's history next to the edit that is being reverted.

Crediting copied content
Sometimes content is moved between articles, or paraphrased from other sources. The licence and good manners often require some kind of attribution. When the content is from Wikivoyage or a sister project, the best way is to include a permanent link to the version you used in the edit summary. The link is found in the toolbox in the left margin of the original page. Write something like "Eat listings from Abugelbe, https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Abugelbe&oldid=12345 " or extract and use the oldid number: "Eat listings from Abugelbe ". The latter form needs a prefix if used with sister projects: "added Understand, with content from w:de:Egeheve " (Wikipedia in German).

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