File:Mississippi-Coast-towns-NOAA.jpg

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Coastal map of the U.S. state of Mississippi, showing major towns and cities in the three coastal counties: Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson County. Also shown are Cat Island, West Ship Island, East Ship Island, Horn Island and Petit Bois Island.The locations of towns, roads and offshore islands are based on NOAA and NASA maps.

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DescriptionMississippi-Coast-towns-NOAA.jpg	Coastal map of the U.S. state of Mississippi, showing major towns and cities in the three coastal counties: Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson County. Also shown are Cat Island, West Ship Island, East Ship Island, Horn Island and Petit Bois Island.The locations of towns, roads and offshore islands are based on NOAA and NASA maps.
Date	21 June 2007
Source	Own work; self-made (hand-edited with MS-Paint) Reference maps: NOAA map of Mississippi counties: NOAA-Coop-MS. NASA map of towns/roads/islands: NASA-SSC-regional-map. Pure stupidity: The map is in quick JPEG format, for large display as highly readable, in about 20 articles that display the map. JPEG clarity is enhanced by painted areas behind many labels, causing the wording to be clearer than even a massive SVG or PNG-format file could provide, due to the sharp display contrast of JPEG files. JPEG Clarity: Even though JPEG images have artifacts, they can display clearer wording in small maps due to auto-contrast enhancement. The same painted/shaded areas, that illuminate wording, would make the map excessively gargantuan in slow cumbersome PNG or SVG format, as is the case with terrain maps, which also should NEVER be converted to massive PNG format.
Author	Wikid77

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	02:54, 26 June 2007	750 × 382 (57 KB)	Wikid77	Brown-toned map: Hancock County as tan (was green); put "Gulf of Mexico" Antigua font; shift labels on islands
	00:17, 26 June 2007	750 × 382 (56 KB)	Wikid77	Mississippi coastal map, with "Horn Island" relabeled, clarified Hwy "90" and "63" icons.
	18:56, 21 June 2007	750 × 382 (56 KB)	Wikid77	re-load of image file, in case internal data was garbled
	18:11, 21 June 2007	750 × 382 (56 KB)	Wikid77	{{Information \|Description=Coastal map of the U.S. state of en:Mississippi, showing major towns and cities in the 3 coastal counties: Hancock, Harrison, a