{"id":565,"date":"2025-12-10T01:34:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/illustrations\/learn\/maps\/editions\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T00:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:43:27","slug":"map-editions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/illustrations\/maps\/map-editions\/","title":{"rendered":"Editions of the Map Repository"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Why are there Compact and Expanded Editions?<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-section\">\n<div class=\"info-card\">\n<p>In addition to a compact Spanish edition, the map repository also comes in two English editions, due to some unresolved uncertainty:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><strong>Compact Edition: (570 MB) <\/strong><br \/>\nAll the maps are directly in the \u201cSIL Map Repository\u201d folder (or the \u201cHK Supplementary Maps\u201d folder, if applicable).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Expanded IDML Edition: (930 MB)<\/strong> <i>(Note: This edition does not contain any Map Creator maps. See <a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/illustrations\/maps\/accessing-repo\/\">next page<\/a> for details.)<\/i><br \/>\nAll the included maps are in sub-folders under the \u201cSIL Map Repository\u201d folder (or under the \u201cHK Supplementary Maps\u201d folder, if applicable).<br \/>\nThose sub-folders also contain:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"circle\">\n<li>An additional copy of the English data merge source file. (Also available in the <strong>DataMergeFiles<\/strong> folder.)<\/li>\n<li>An additional version of the IDML file that has been merged with English labels, and so is no longer mergeable.<br \/>\nEnglish labels contain \u201c<strong>@en<\/strong>\u201d in the file name. E.g. <strong>065wbt &#8211; Ruth @en.idml<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although we strongly recommend using the data merge feature, these &#8220;@en&#8221; files are provided for users who are not up for learning how to use data merge, and who instead copy and paste labels in.<\/p>\n<p>Not that they couldn&#8217;t copy and paste into the merge-enabled files, but there is some uncertainty on whether it is ever possible for the mergeable maps to feel different to the copy\/paste user, such as by showing a field\u2019s name, for example, <strong>&lt;&lt;jerusalem_nt&gt;&gt;<\/strong>, without the user having explicitly specified a data merge file to use. The repository manager would request that, if possible, even copy\/paste users first try the mergeable files, not the <strong>@en<\/strong> files, and then alert the Repository Manager via the <a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/illustrations\/about\/contact\/\">Contact page<\/a>\u00a0if any such problems occur, before resorting to using the <strong>@en<\/strong> files. This will help us to resolve the question of whether it\u2019s worth continuing to provide such files in the longer term. (So far, since the launch of the &#8220;SMP1&#8221; release in April 2025, we have not received any such problem reports.) Thank you!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are there Compact and Expanded Editions? In addition to a compact Spanish edition, the map repository also comes in two English editions, due to some unresolved uncertainty: Compact Edition: (570 MB) All the maps are directly in the \u201cSIL Map Repository\u201d folder (or the \u201cHK Supplementary Maps\u201d folder, if applicable). Expanded IDML Edition: (930 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"parent":541,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-565","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565\/revisions\/685"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}