Can I make a jpeg file into the background of a plot?  

I want to make a topological map the background of the xy plane.

http://g.co/maps/4fznf

Thank you.

Is there a way to make the x, y and z axes thicker in 3d plots?

Example:

implicitplot(x^2 + y^2 = 1, x=-2..2,y=-2..2)

This command produces a plot with the range x = -1..1, y = -1..1 instead of what I specified.

I don't remember this being a problem on the older editions of Maple. 

Is there a way to plot POINTS in plot3d?  POINTS is described in the PLOT and PLOT3D Data Structures help section.

I have made it work in a 2d plots, but I want to plot points in 3d (a sort of 3d scatter plot).   In the Structures help section it says that the POINT structure is used to define a set of points in 2 or 3 space (if a z value is also supplied).

In the plot3d/options help it makes reference to defining symbols for ploting points.  But I can't figure out or find any examples of how it is done. 

Any help would be appreciated.