Yes, that is it. Thank you for your help, sas.

I am trying to make maps for Wikipedia using Inkscape and I came across a good map that I can use on Wikimedia commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aegean_Sea_map-de.svg But there is something weird with this map and I haven't got it figured out. There is apparently a bitmap underneath wi...

Yes, the map worked out well but the solution to the problem: putting a rectangle behind the map in order to make it perfect.

It worked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Yarmouk_Map.svg. But I think it is a bit weird.
Thank you for answering.

The name? You can download the windows installer from the inkscape webpage: http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en.

I have done something wrong but I don't know what. This is how the svg file looks in Inkscape: http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/nn177/Ptolemeus/?action=view&current=Yarmouk.png And it looks exactly how I want it to. But when I save it, it looks like this: http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/nn1...

Thank you for your well documented reply. I appreciate it.

I have edited a picture with Inkscape. Since it was a svg-file, it seemed the right way to do. I am a complete newbie to Inkscape but I managed pretty well.... until I uploaded the pic to Wikimedia commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaart_Europa_Bondgenootschappen.svg There is a black s...