Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/map tag campaign/tagging gallery
- Tagging guidelines
In general, err on the side of liberality. There is a user button in Georeferencer for "I can't georeference this", so maps that are hard to georeference will be caught at a later stage. But we should still identify them as maps
Not maps, so should not get tagged
[edit]Only things which are definitely not maps or plans -- e.g. architectural elevations and details, topographical views, cross-sections, non-geographical diagrams etc. (Some of all of these have been tagged in the past, probably by automated programs).
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Topographical birds-eye drawing of a city
(But medieval-style maps with drawn houses should be included). -
Stylised birds-eye schematic of an estuary
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Elevation of a building
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Atlas page showing comparative heights of mountains, including two cross sections
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Cross-section through two systems of lakes
Special cases
[edit]Please use the additional tags world
, conical
, and split
for the special cases below.
Maps needing rotation should be tagged rotatec
(to be turned clockwise), or rotatecc
(to be turned counter-clockwise).
1. World maps
[edit]Please tag these with the tags world map
, or map world
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World map
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Hemisphere map
2. Non-rectangular projections
[edit]Please tag these with the tags conical map
, or map conical
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Map on a polar projection
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Map on a Cardioid projection, with an not-entirely-sound grasp of geography
3. Images containing multiple maps
[edit]Please tag these with the tags split map
, or map split
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A pair of maps of the British Isles
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Sketch of two river systems
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Multiple nautical sketches
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Multiple historical periods
Maps
[edit]These should all be tagged with map
(even the building plans)
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Plan of a church
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Plan of a mosque
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Plan of a church
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Plan of a park
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Plan of a garden
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Plan of a cemetery
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Plan of an large-scale exhibition
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Battlefield plan
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Plan of a key location on a battlefield
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Tudor map
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17th-century city map
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Medieval-style map with drawn houses
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Hypothetical reconstruction
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Design for an urban plan that was never built
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Transport plan (geographically accurate)
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Transport plan (geographically accurate)
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Sketch map of a county
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Sketch map of a river
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Sketch map of a bay
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Sketch map of a delta
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Outline plan of a new settlement
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Not quite a world map
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Australia with a superimposed British Isles
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Map with a photograph, needing rotation
Tricky to georeference, but should still be tagged
[edit]These will be hard to georeference, but should still be tagged map
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Ptolemaic map
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Plans of a cave system