Map Thread IX - Page 291

Emperor-of-New-Zealand · #**5801** May 16th, 2012, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by MissWhatsittoya

Because he's. Japanesse.

The fact that you didn't even bother to google 'Japanese names' followed by 'Japanese surnames' to come up with your president is a very big indication of just how nonexistent your research is.

Fenrir_Angerboda · #**5802** May 16th, 2012, 05:01 AM

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Originally Posted by MissWhatsittoya

Because he's. Japanesse.

"Yakashi" is not a Japanese name.
period.

I presume "Suzki" was suppose to be "Suzuki" is a Girl's name.

Mathuen · #**5803** May 16th, 2012, 05:01 AM

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Originally Posted by VulcanTrekkie45

I just did a Google image search for 'parchment.'

Cool, though my second question is still there... hmm... yeah I'll use that font. I'll PM you stuff later,

metastasis_d · #**5804** May 16th, 2012, 05:01 AM

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Originally Posted by MissWhatsittoya

Any other thoughts on the PSA?

How are the Mormons doing?

Kaiphranos · #**5805** May 16th, 2012, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by MissWhatsittoya

Any other thoughts on the PSA?

What did the Japanese have against Nevada that they split it up? How was Baja California acquired--did Japan fight Mexico for it, or had it been part of the US? Or did it just snap off and the Japanese glued it back on and painted it yellow, hoping the Mexicans wouldn't notice?

VT45 · #**5806** May 16th, 2012, 05:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Mathuen

Cool, though my second question is still there... hmm... yeah I'll use that font. I'll PM you stuff later,

Sorry, missed that second part. Yeah, that font is supposed to be standard Acadian calligraphy for that time. I already emailed it to you so you should be good. The one thing is that I couldn't find a G-acute symbol, so I coded G-circumflex as G-acute in the font.

Also, have you been able to read all those back emails, or would you like me to translate the place names?

deathgod · #**5807** May 16th, 2012, 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Fenrir_Angerboda

"Yakashi" is not a Japanese name.
period.

I presume "Suzki" was suppose to be "Suzuki" is a Girl's name.

Actually, Suzuki is a surname.

Fenrir_Angerboda · #**5808** May 16th, 2012, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by deathgod

Actually, Suzuki is a surname.

I've met someone who's first name was Suzuki.

deathgod · #**5809** May 16th, 2012, 05:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Fenrir_Angerboda

I've met someone who's first name was Suzuki.

That doesn't mean it's not a surname, too. Cf. Wikipedia. Also, it would make more sense as I doubt MissWhatIsToya went through the trouble of thinking about whether she should put the surname first or last.

Fenrir_Angerboda · #**5810** May 16th, 2012, 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by deathgod

That doesn't mean it's not a surname, too. Cf. Wikipedia. Also, it would make more sense as I doubt MissWhatIsToya went through the trouble of thinking about whether she should put the surname first or last.

I really don't think her first name was "Walker".

Future8 · #**5811** May 16th, 2012, 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Kaiphranos

What's the basis for some of those borders in the upper Midwest? Northern Minnesota looks particularly odd to me, with that tendril extending down between *Wisconsin and *Iowa...

If I'm not mistaken, there's the Minnesota River up there that's determining *Iowa's northern border. The Mississippi River makes *Wisconsin's eastern border, so yeah, that does make a little panhandle there.

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Originally Posted by Muwatalli'

Why is alaska split in 2?

I don't see why Alaska being split in two is always such a big deal. I think some policy like homesteading or something would allow the population in southern Alaska to become large enough for it to become a state by itself.

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Originally Posted by wolf_brother

Why do Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, and Nevada have their OTL shape when even IOTL those came about due to quite a lot of territorial shuffling.

The look of the map is fine, now I think we're just all curious about the context

There's nothing really stopping Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico from forming the way they did in OTL from what I've read.

I originally intended for Utah to have more of Nevada, but I think that little triangle from *Arizona is enough.

Montana, I'm working on. Any suggestions?

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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil

Some of your borders seem arbitrary. The Minnesotan Remnant probably wouldn't look like that, and Arizona won't be allowed to be that big. Sonora would still be its own state.

That entire state is Sonora. Since it's mostly desert, I assumed that the government won't mind it becoming a comparatively larger state.

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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil

Also, if the Greater Antilles are part of the US, you'll want to show that in the map instead of cutting them off. I like the Cuba-poking-out thing that plenty of OTL old maps did, so that's cool, but show everything!

That, my friend, shall be shown in another inset.

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Originally Posted by Simreeve

What's the date? IIRC one or two of the lakes shown are actually man-made reservoirs OTL...

I know. I suppose the date would be after World War II, if not after the Cold War.

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Originally Posted by Trondheim

The style is great, but why is Bucks County, PA its own state?

That's just a stray line.

Thanks for pointing it out.

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Originally Posted by Rubberduck3y6

It looks a bit odd having latitude and longitude lines on the Alaska and Hawaii maps and not on the main one IMO.

I believe I accidentally attached the version in which I hadn't added the l&l of the mainland.

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Originally Posted by FiahOwl

Wow, nice flag!

The Bay State's northern border looks quite odd. Wouldn't it make more sense to have it along that-one-river-that-starts-in-newburyport-i-forgot-the-name-of? Is southwick still annoying the hell out of Connecticut?

Also, I love your Maine borders so much!

Thanks!

The basemap was a little crowded, so I forgot about the Merrimack River border. Thanks for pointing it out.

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Originally Posted by elomire678

It looks quite good, but the California/Baja border is nonsensical. You cut LA metro in half between the two states.

I think there's a small river, an outlet of the Colorado or something that I based the border on. Baja California was acquired at the same time as California, so there was no "LA Metro" then. Anyway, it's all within the U.S., there's no problem with a metro being divided between two states.

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Originally Posted by Doctor Imperialism

How depressing. I just spent the last hour finishing the pathing of an absolutely enormous map of Germany in Gimp. When I went to stroke the path so I could have a nice, hi res BAM, Gimp crashed and deleted all my progress.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. Save the path every five-ish minutes, and once more before stroking it. Also, make sure that the file is in .xcf format. Export it to .png or .jpg only after you're entirely done with it.

Iori · #**5812** May 16th, 2012, 05:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Future8

I don't see why Alaska being split in two is always such a big deal. I think some policy like homesteading or something would allow the population in southern Alaska to become large enough for it to become a state by itself.

You can't really do that, Alaska is basically uninhabitable to Europeans without modern technology, and even then it's not a place anyone would really want to, I mean even now with the incentive that is the Yearly Oil Payments Alaska's entire population is only 722,718.

More importanly thought their is absolutely zero reason to split the North off as a territory, as it will NEVER have even a quarter of the required population to be a state.

metastasis_d · #**5813** May 16th, 2012, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Iori

You can't really do that, Alaska is basically uninhabitable to Europeans without modern technology, and even then it's not a place anyone would really want to, i mean even now with the incentive that is the Yearly Oil Payments Alaska's entire population is only 722,718.

More importanly thought their is absolutely zero reson to split the North off as a territory, as it will NEVER have even a quarter of the required population to be a state.

Yeah, even if we use the NW Ordinance as the cutoff (60K) Northern Alaska, by almost any division, isn't up enough for its own statehood.

B_Munro · #**5814** May 16th, 2012, 06:28 AM

Northern Alaska will become a state of its own in the year 2562, due to heavy immigration of penguin-people from Tau Ceti 6.

Bruce

metastasis_d · #**5815** May 16th, 2012, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by B_Munro

Northern Alaska will become a state of its own in the year 2562, due to heavy immigration of penguin-people from Tau Ceti 6.

Bruce

Ah, but will they immediately be given citizenship?

Fenrir_Angerboda · #**5816** May 16th, 2012, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by metastasis_d

Ah, but will they immediately be given citizenship?

after a couple explode, yeah.

MissWhatsittoya · #**5817** May 16th, 2012, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Emperor-of-New-Zealand

The fact that you didn't even bother to google 'Japanese names' followed by 'Japanese surnames' to come up with your president is a very big indication of just how nonexistent your research is.

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Originally Posted by Fenrir_Angerboda

"Yakashi" is not a Japanese name.
period.

I presume "Suzki" was suppose to be "Suzuki" is a Girl's name.

Suzuki is a name,

Ichiro Suzuki, he's male and Japanesse. his name reverse is Suzuki Ichiro, in normal Japanesse

and yes I made Yakashi up, but it could be a Japanesse name.

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Originally Posted by metastasis_d

How are the Mormons doing?

Not well, they all got deported to the US.

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Originally Posted by Kaiphranos

What did the Japanese have against Nevada that they split it up? How was Baja California acquired--did Japan fight Mexico for it, or had it been part of the US? Or did it just snap off and the Japanese glued it back on and painted it yellow, hoping the Mexicans wouldn't notice?

That's just how the rearragned the internal borders.

Japan fought the Mexican-Canadian-American coalition and won (ASB, obviously, it's a Axis wins scenario) and took Baja and parts of British Columbia, all of Yukon, Alaska, and the US Pacific coast.