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{{About|the GIS software xplanet|help with the interactive maps feature|mw:Help:Extension:Kartographer}}

[[Category:Wikipedia how-to|xplanet]]

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'''Producing maps with xplanet''' is a [[wikipedia]] tutorial showing how to use [[xplanet]] as a piece of [[geographic information system|GIS]] kit, to make map images suitable for use on wikipedia and other such websites. By the end of the tutorial, you should be able to quickly and accurately produce maps of any region suitable for publication.

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See the URL below for some examples

[http://thomas-wehr.homeip.net/weather/europawetter.php Xplanet sample output: with markerfiles produced with weather skriptsscripts]

[http://thomas-wehr.homeip.net/space/iss-position.php Xplanet sample output: following the International Spacestation ISS around the earth showing various information like volcanos, quakes. Using satellites as targets.]

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[http://thomas-wehr.homeip.net/weather/hurricane.php Xplanet sample output: hurricane information using arcfile options. Storm data collected by scripts.]

==Drawing on maps tutorial==

plot significant points, then use them as template in GIMP?

== Misc ==

[[Image:xplanet_peters.jpg|thumb|300px|Typical image using the [[Peters projection]]]]

== See also ==

*http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XPlanet_notes

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XPlanet_notes