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Map of the Great Wall of China

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Original – The Great Wall of China is the longest building on earth with a length of 6350 kilometers (3945 miles), of which the main wall spans 2400 km (1500 miles). It consists of a system of several sections, sometimes not connected, that differ in age and construction method.
Reason
I believe that it satisfies all of the criteria for Featured picture because it is highly informative and give scattered information in one easily-readable source. It is verifiable, has a good caption, and adds significantly to the article on the subject.
Articles in which this image appears
Great Wall of China
FP category for this image
Geography and places
Creator
Maximilian Dörrbecker
It looks like the author of the image used all jpegs and the only svg was the small inlay map of China.
talk) 01:10, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply
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What do you need an svg for? In my opinion for maps that are final (=are not being used as base for creating other maps), there is no need to have an svg version. A blank map is provided for translation/internationalization purposes. Furthermore there are serious issues with rendering svg on wikipedia which would make the text look ugly if it was an svg map. Also, transforming the background into svg would unnecessarily bloat the image size. bamse (talk) 10:18, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Some of those things are true, but at the very least I think a svg should be available for someone to render the image as a jpg or png after modification, in my view. JJ Harrison (talk) 20:00, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
What "modification" do you have in mind? bamse (talk) 21:51, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Who knows? Perhaps there could be an error to correct, or some missing bit of information. Wikipedia articles are built on the principle that anyone can edit them, and that should be reflected in diagrams when it is possible to do so. Allowing it to be editable also allows people that want to use the content beyond Wikipedia to make edits to suit without difficulty. JJ Harrison (talk) 10:22, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I can see your point. On the other hand, if somebody nominates a panorama stitched from N frames, we don't require the contributor to upload all of these N frames (in case somebody later discovers a stitching error), do we? bamse (talk) 13:56, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • conditional Support for this very informative and well done map. In the image description, the Nasa World Wind map is not a topological background, it is not a topographic map either, but a satellite image. bamse (talk) 10:18, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose It really should be an svg... Even though many of the maps are bitmaps the overlays and text mean it should really be svg for translatability. - Zephyris Talk 18:22, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Therer is a blank map for translatability. bamse (talk) 23:25, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 21:44, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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