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The Map of Yezur

the atlas of the world, and the craft of charting it

This is the home of Yezur's map — the slippy map, editing tools, and data behind yezur.xyz. Where the encyclopedia describes the world in prose, the map holds it as geography: coastlines, cities, roads, and borders, all editable and queryable. These pages document how the map is built and how the rest of the wiki links into it.

Explore the interactive map of Yezur →

Pan, zoom, and query the whole world at yezur.xyz.

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Linking to the map from an article

Articles point at real map features with these templates:

Template	Points to	Example
{{Node|id|label}}	a single point (a place, a peak)	City centre
{{Way|id|label}}	a line or area (a road, a lake)	Coast road
{{Relation|id|label}}	grouped features (a country, a route)	Andusia
{{Coordslink|lat|lon|zoom|label}}	a point by coordinates	Old Harbour

Embedding a live map

The {{#map:}} parser function drops an interactive map into a page. Working parameters:

Parameter	Meaning	Example
zoom	initial zoom level	zoom=6
center	centre point, as lat,lon	center=12.34,56.78
layer	base layer name	layer=satellite
query	an Overpass query to draw	query=[out:json];node(60117);out;

For example, {{#map:zoom=5|center=12.34,56.78}} embeds a map centred on those coordinates.

The data model

Yezur's map follows the familiar three-part model:

• Nodes — single points (a well, a summit, a village centre).
• Ways — ordered runs of nodes, forming roads and rivers or the outlines of areas.
• Relations — groups of nodes and ways that together make something larger, such as an administrative border or a numbered route.

Every feature carries a stable ID — that is what the linking templates above point to, and what an Overpass query returns.

Companion works

• The Encyclopedia — the world of Yezur, its lands and peoples.
• The Dictionary — the interlingual dictionary of Yezur's languages.