Map of administration areas in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), state of Germany. Map shows municipalities, district-free cities, district and administative districts in North Rhine-Westphalia. In addtion it contains information on topography, water, Autobahn lanes and poulated areas. Available Layers:
Aministration areas: areas of municipalities, district-free cities, districts, administative districts and state (single layers each)
Names: Names of all administration areas (single layers each) + names of selected regions, rivers, cities, neighbouring states, landscapes, etc. (single layers each)
Populated areas: populated areas - municipalities larger ~ 40.000 inhbitants -, greyscales
Autobahn: autobahn lanes and autobahn lanes planned, greyscales (single layers each)
Federal routes: federal routes, greyscales
Water: major rivers, other rivers, channels and lakes (single layers each)
Topography: Digital Elevation Model, i.e.: greyscale, embedded PNG file
Land usage: woods, farmland and greenland/dairies, poulated areas, water and mining areas, embedded PNG files (single layers each)
Map Legend: color templates, scales, symbols, orientationTechnical information:
Due to its coplexity and size, the image may not be displayed correctly oder rendering is slow. Hence it is recommended to download the file and to edit the image. Before saving in a vector format like SVG it is recommendend to delete all unnecessary or hidden objects. Alternatively you may download single layers seperately, see below. For best results it is recommended to save the image in a pixel file format (PNG, GIF, etc.). The latter guarantees best appearance in Wikipedia. All poroperties of all objects in the image can be edited. Please use the color template, that matches the German Wikipedia Infoboxes, to assure a great continuity of appearance in Wikipedia. If you derive new images from this file, please leave a hint on this image: 
based upon template: 

Code:based upon template:&lt;imagemap&gt;image:North rhine w template 2.png|100px|default [[image:North rhine w template 2.svg]] desc none&lt;/imagemap&gt;For suggestions please contact me at my user site.
Links to single layers, same scale, same orientation, SVG-Vector files / Links zu den einzelnen Layern, identische Größe und Orientierung, SVG-Verktor-Dateien:


			
			
complete file but w/o any embedded pixel file / nur Vektordaten ohne Pixelanteile — Link: Image:North rhine w template 2 only vector.svg

			
		
		
			
			
only topography layer (may not be displayed due to large size)/ Topographie — Link: Image:North rhine w template 2 topography.svg

			
		
		
			
			
only land usage (may not be displayed due to large size) / Landnutzung — Link: Image:North rhine w template 2 land usage.svg
All layers are created by myself. This means that I've created layers either entirely from scratch, digitalized, generalized or fundamentally edited in any other way. No maps were simply copied. Sources were:

Administration areas, rivers, poulated areas and names: base upon GeoServer NRW by Vermessungs- und Katasterverwaltung (VKV) NRW (www.geoserver.nrw.de/), TIM Online by Landesvermessungsamtes Nordrhein-Westfalen (LVermA NRW) (www.tim-online.nrw.de/). Borders of municipalities are based mainly on Landesamt für Natur, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz NRW: Kapitel 2: Allgemeine Landesdaten, page 21, PDF
Lakes: based upon www.maps-for-free.com, released under public domain
Streets: based upon NWSIB-Online, a database of Landesbetrieb Straßenbau NRW, a public agencyof the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
Topgraphy: based upon NASA's SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) available under public domain from NASA SRTM Website
Land use: based upon Website of Landesamt für Natur, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz NRW and information found on website www.flächennutzung.nrw.de from project Visualisierung von Landnutzung und Flächenverbrauch in Nordrhein-Westfalen mittels Satelliten- und Luftbildern of the Ministerium of Umwelt und Naturschutz, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz Nordrhein-Westfalen.
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