The polygon map

Look at: The polygon map/New color scheme

And: The_polygon_map/Han_support

That's the alternative to satellite photos, like these used in The first useful map.

Size: 600x600

Projection: Equal-area cylindrical

Latitude:56 N - 48 N

Longitude:13 E - 25 E

Marked objects:

Countries

City labels

Country labels

Rivers

projection = equalarea
size       = 600 600
lat        = 56 48
long       = 13 25
out        = map-p24.png
background = political
rivers
clabels
cities     = data/cities2.pl
locale     = pl
borders

Problems (other than those present in The first useful map:

The gaps in rivers look even more ugly than on BlueMarble map