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-=======Maps=======
+=======Examples: Maps: Long Description Examples=======
 <note important>These are examples only. Context is key! It will always influence how you describe an image. For full instructions on how to write see [[public:nnels:etext:complex-image-description#writing_complex_descriptions|Complex Image Descriptions]] and [[public:nnels:etext:images:general_guidelines|General Guidelines]].</note>
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-This first map is from //American War// by Omar El Akkad. It is a science-fiction/dystopian future novel about the second civil war in America.
+This first map is from American War by Omar El Akkad. It is a science-fiction/dystopian future novel about the second civil war in America.
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   * Southeast: The Eastern European nations including Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. The Balkan countries including Croatia and Serbia. Greece and the Mediterranean Sea lies to the south.
   * Southwest: The Western European nations including Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
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 The capital city of each country is marked by a star. Other major cities are referenced. Major rivers such as the Danube are illustrated.
 The edge boundaries of the map are Greenland, northwest, Russian, northeast, Turkey, southeast, and Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, southwest. Each country is a shaded a different colour to help differentiation only. The scale ratio is 1 to 19.3 million. Scale measurement is 1 centimeter to 100 kilometers.
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+The following example is from the Princess Bride and was written for the [[public:nnels:etext:human-narration-alt-text|Human Narration]] version of the book. Some detail was sacrificed to fit into the constraints of Human Narration. For EPUB you would want to add some more visual information.
+{{ :public:nnels:etext:images:alt_text_examples:princess_bride_map.png?400 |}}
+Begin image description:
+An illustrated map depicting the fictional city of Florin.
+A compass indicates that the top is North and the bottom is South
+Flowing through the middle of the map from North to South is a wide Channel. The north half is called Florin Channel, and the South half is called Channel of Guilder
+To the west side of the channel is Florin. Starting in the north and moving south are the following marked locations:
+  * The Village
+  * The Farm
+  * The gated Florin City
+A winding road starts at The Village and moves South past the Farm and to the gates of the City. It is called a Cart Track. Just outside the gates are two docks.
+The Florin City is made up of muddy roads in a grid like pattern with different sized houses on every block. The marked buildings are as follows:
+  * In the northeast corner is the Zoo of Death
+  * A Wheelbarrow sits in the street before the zoo
+  * In the center of the city, close to the front gates and south of the zoo, is the castle.
+  * Directly south of the castle is an open area called the Great Square
+  * West of the Great Square is the Thieves Quarter that includes and Falkbridge’s Alehouse
+  * Southeast of the castle, close to the outer wall and behind a row of buildings, is Miracle Mans Hut
+To the east side of the channel is Guilder. A gated city sits in the far north. South from the city, is a forest by the shore labelled Oak Tree. South of the Oak Tree is the tall Cliffs of Insanity that rise directly over the water. Four ships sail in the cove below. From the shore outwards they are as follows:
+  * The Kidnapper’s Ship, which is surrounded by sharks
+  * The Pursuit Ship, which is the same size and close behind
+  * The Armada, which is made up of two large tall ships that follow up behind the Pursuit Ship.
+At the northern side of the cliffs hangs the Rope that leads up to the Duel area. East of this area is a hilly rocky place labelled Ambush. South of the Ambush, close to the edge of the cliffs is the Picnic. East of the Ambush and Picnic Area is a narrow and jagged ravine that goes south and includes the Snow Sand that lead into the Fire Swamps and opens up to a lower shoreline below the cliffs. At the mouth of the swamp is Bursts of Flame and two large rodents labelled R.O.U.S (Rodents of Unusual Size).
+At end of the Southern shore is a small fishing village, and just behind the village is Fezzik’s Cave.
+In the bay of the village is Giant Eel Bay. The tall ship The Revenge sails in the bay close to a giant swimming eel.
+End of image description
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