$10.00 for whoever can find me the best world map. Submissions must meet the following guidelines. I'll be the final judge of what constitutes a good map or not. 1. I'm looking for a blank world map. 2. It should have borders for all countries but no country names. 3. It should be plain white with black borders if possible. (or fairly easily modified in photoshop) 4. You must let me know the source of the map if possible and I should be able to modify it and use it for my own purposes. 5. In my opinion, It should be better than this map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/BlankMap-World.png 6. A clear sharp map with thin borders is better than one that uses anti-aliasing. Hi-res is better than low res. 7. It should be free to use (or at least fairly inexpensive to purchase) Thanks -Fractal
this one is big enough to be able to modify it http://tstar.taillandier.de/tstarmap/world_map_en_hi.gif
Thanks for the submissions so far. So far nothing better than the map in my original post. Although the last one is getting closer. It needs to be black and white, and is missing the great lakes in North America and some other inland lakes. -Fractal
how about this one: http://www.geocities.com/i_luv_pitza/stuff/Designs/worldmap.jpg you can easily modify it too.
Check these out. http://idm.epfl.ch/i-dm/L2/world_map.jpg http://www.goldened.com/store/images/WorldPoliticalBoundaries600.jpg
Getting there but the borders are a bit thick and smudgy. I'll be colour coding each country with a different colour. Therefore, anti-aliased borders will make this harder to do and also look horrible.
Can you find bigger versions of either of these maps? Hopefully you can and the borders are nice and sharp.
http://www.bristolstories.org/site_images/big_world_map.jpg http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/enigma/writing/fut-his/images/polit.gif http://www.pstut.com/imagemanager/images/resizable_pixel_world_map/workpath.gif http://www.fic.nih.gov/funding/images/Cutout-World-Map-with-Fogar.gif http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Map_Satellite/World_Map1_11218.gif http://www.winrock.org/programs/images/world_map-2.jpg http://www.wpclipart.com/geography/world_map_enhanced.png http://www.wpclipart.com/geography/world_map_simple.png http://changchien.lily.googlepages.com/BlankWorldMap.gif i give u a lots of maps.
Of all your links the following aren't too bad but have a few critical things missing. http://www.fic.nih.gov/funding/images/Cutout-World-Map-with-Fogar.gif ( need this in higher resolution and without dots) http://www.wpclipart.com/geography/world_map_enhanced.png (again I would need this in higher resolution - the colours are off but it still might be usable for colour coding) http://www.wpclipart.com/geography/world_map_simple.png (looks like it is based on my original version but modified a bit which is okay - can you find it in a higher resolution? )
Is it too late? i found one, its svg so it can be scaled to make it as large as possible Well as large as system resource will allow