Map Thread VIII

[randomperson]

Originally Posted by Lascupa0788

It's not so much the plausibility as the map itself... You used quite the wrong colours on the borders. Also, use the maps furthest back in the basemap threads, instead of up front. For instance, the one you used is severely out-dated and a few years old. Try This one, it's pretty much the latest 2011 basemap.

oh, ok i got it

[Pischinovski]

Originally Posted by B_Munro

Nice!

Just out of curiousity, is map 13 (1907) still "in continuity" with map 21 (1856)?

Bruce

thank you
yeah it is (only a few minor updates are missing)

[LSCatilina]

Originally Posted by Victor Hatherley

You made a Horrid, ASB Map.

Try to make a better one.

Seriously, you're quite new on this thread, never having drawn even a stamp-sized map. And yet you think you're allowed to make such comments, without the slightlest constructive comment?

[canyonjumper]

The world of Cascadia in 1914. As you can see, the world is a very different place. Germany and Italy never unified, though the hodgepodge of nations that existed beforehand have amalgamated somewhat. The Mexican state of Alta California seceded from Mexico one year before the Mexican-American War in 1860, and has remained independent for 54 years. Mexico is in the midst of a civil war, and the Central American countries are on the verge of becoming one country. Canada and Newfoundland have more autonomy than they do in OTL. More background coming later, I'm kinda pressed for time. Feel free to criticize to your heart's content :P

[Dangimill]

Why is Vancouver independent, and what's with the American protectorate color in northern Mexico?

[B_Munro]

Originally Posted by canyonjumper

The world of Cascadia in 1914. As you can see, the world is a very different place. Germany and Italy never unified, though the hodgepodge of nations that existed beforehand have amalgamated somewhat. The Mexican state of Alta California seceded from Mexico one year before the Mexican-American War in 1860, and has remained independent for 54 years. Mexico is in the midst of a civil war, and the Central American countries are on the verge of becoming one country. Canada and Newfoundland have more autonomy than they do in OTL. More background coming later, I'm kinda pressed for time. Feel free to criticize to your heart's content :P

Nice... a couple complaints and a few queries...

Too many convergent borders in Africa.
Who’s colonizing Tanzania?
What’s that green stain going from Maine to Newfoundland?
What’s that teeny country east of Poland?
Is that a mega-Hanover?
Multiple “claim” lines: I hates them, I do.

Bruce

[Turquoise Blue]

Originally Posted by canyonjumper

The world of Cascadia in 1914. As you can see, the world is a very different place. Germany and Italy never unified, though the hodgepodge of nations that existed beforehand have amalgamated somewhat. The Mexican state of Alta California seceded from Mexico one year before the Mexican-American War in 1860, and has remained independent for 54 years. Mexico is in the midst of a civil war, and the Central American countries are on the verge of becoming one country. Canada and Newfoundland have more autonomy than they do in OTL. More background coming later, I'm kinda pressed for time. Feel free to criticize to your heart's content :P

How can America have Alaska? I recommend it become Russian, Canadian or independent.

[Future8]

Originally Posted by canyonjumper

The world of Cascadia in 1914.

I can see that would really be a good map, if only I understood it. UCS maps just look and are too confusing for me.

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Also, in a world where the Zimmermann Telegram is never discovered by the United Kingdom, the United Mexican States look like the following:

[B_Munro]

Actually, I think you need to have the border moved just as far _south_ of where it is OTL rather than north...

Anyhoo. For the current "50 years is a long time" map contest. One of those "eternal 19th century Empires" worlds, like GURPS Cornwallis or The Two Georges, comes a bit of a cropper after such events as the Austrian development of the Atomic weapon, the Great Chinese Revolution, the glorious Ottoman Renaissance and its tragic denoument, and a clash over Some Damn Thing In the Middle East between the British Empire and the Bourbons which ends up going nuclear.

Bruce

[B_Munro]

Map the first:

[B_Munro]

And map the second.

[B_Munro]

BTW, can someone point me to a site where I can download GIMP for free before Nugax goes medieval on my ass?

Bruce

[Zuvarq]

MittelEuropa looks cool on the second map.

Originally Posted by B_Munro

BTW, can someone point me to a site where I can download GIMP for free before Nugax goes medieval on my ass?

Bruce

http://www.gimp.org/

[LordInsane]

Originally Posted by B_Munro

Map the first:

Though I can guess where it should be, 22 seems to be missing from the map itself.

[Krall]

Originally Posted by B_Munro

BTW, can someone point me to a site where I can download GIMP for free before Nugax goes medieval on my ass?

Bruce

You could try the GIMP website.

[Emperor-of-New-Zealand]

Originally Posted by LordInsane

Though I can guess where it should be, 22 seems to be missing from the map itself.

I'm having trouble guessing. Care to share?

[Kaiphranos]

Originally Posted by canyonjumper

The world of Cascadia in 1914.

Nicely done. And Paraguay is slightly larger than OTL, I see.

What's the deal with the light green in Maine/Nova Scotia: some sort of supranational "Maritime Association?"

Originally Posted by B_Munro

Map the first:

Originally Posted by B_Munro

And map the second.

As always, very nice. I'm guessing the British Empire "won," or at least the Bourbons lost worst?

Originally Posted by Emperor-of-New-Zealand

I'm having trouble guessing. Care to share?

Presumably the little French-influenced states carved out of southern China.

[Pischinovski]

Originally Posted by B_Munro

BTW, can someone point me to a site where I can download GIMP for free before Nugax goes medieval on my ass?

Bruce

dont do it! the monroist style is limited to the basemap :'(

[Æsir]

Originally Posted by B_Munro

Who’s colonizing Tanzania?

I can't help but think that's a "Chinese dominion/colony" color.

[tnowacki]

Here is my second (and third) map on alternatehistory.com. I hope you like them. Constructive criticism always is appreciated. If you like them, feel free to vote for me in the Map of the Fortnight 50 competition.

Alright. A bit late but here is my entry. It depicts the reduction of Prussian core territory between 1951 and 2001. The ATL suggests that Germany never unified; instead, Prussia remains the dominant German power. However, some smaller territories that once belonged to Prussia were had been lost in 1951 already (parts of Rheinland and Western Prussia, e.g.). The further dismantlement of Prussia takes place in the German Wars (1982-1988). In 2000, some remaining German states found the German Confederation, a loose assosiation with the aim of strenghtening the German culture. In contrast, the European Federation, consisting of the European francophone countries, has formed and is now the major continental power. In 1997, Baden decides to join the European Federation.