FamilySearch Wiki:New Denmark Maps

Instructions

We need to re-make the county maps for Denmark to make them more legible and easier to use.

Maps should include the same parish boundaries as the ones that are currently in the Wiki on the Denmark county pages. However, we have realized that some of those maps are missing a few parishes here or there for unknown reasons. We need to make sure to include those parishes that are missing. The maps we will be basing the new maps off of are the ones found on danishfamilysearch.com (links for each county reference map will be provided below), as they are the most correct of any maps we have access to.

Counties Reference Maps

Here are the reference maps we will be using from danishfamilysearch.com

Bornholm Frederiksborg Haderslev Hjørring Holbæk København (county) Maribo Odense Præstø Randers Ribe Ringkøbing

Roskilde Skanderborg Sorø Svendborg Sønderborg Thisted Tønder Vejle Viborg Åbenrå Ålborg Århus

Components to Add

1. Each map needs to still have the reference parishes across the county border, as the current maps do (refer to the original FS Wiki maps for this).
   
   
2. We need to keep the Herred information (the initial typewriter-font labeling from the original maps), however instead of labeling it on top of the boundary lines, we're thinking it would be better to color-code the parishes by those boundaries, and include a Legend off to the side, indicating which Herreds are which color.
   
   
3. Some parishes (see this example) are separated by a dotted-line boundary instead of a solid line. If possible, keep the dotted-line boundary, as it indicates that parishes were combined at one point in time. We will indicate what the dotted line boundary means in the Legend.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me (amberlarsen@familysearch.org) or send me a Yammer :)