Lack of maps in TL's

[elchriso]

Hello. This fine Christmas day I received a brand new e-reader! The first thing I did after charging it up was go to the finished TLs forum, save a bunch of them as PDFs and put them on my reader for many great future hours of leisure. I'm quite enjoying Look to the West right now. I've noticed however in my time on this fourm, that including maps with one's TL is not very common. Now making a TL requires extremely large amounts of work and far more dedication than I could ever muster, so I don't want to come off as an ungrateful little shit or anything like that, but while I can generally remember where all the major European cities and regions are, it can be very difficult to get a sense of what each country's territory looks like in TTL. When you start throwing in Chinese provinces and Japanese prefectures and obscure African kingdoms, then I'm hooped.

I have noticed that people will occasionally post maps for their TLs in the map thread. Is this more common practice then I thought? I love me some history of the alternative variety, but a visual accompaniment would rock my world.

[Theodore Gladstone]

Well, not everyone's very skilled at making maps. I haven't included any maps so fa for my TL's version of the Civil War, because i am horrible at making maps. However, it is ultimately up to the timeline makers preference. After all, they are putting all the work into the TL, they are not obligated to make a map. if you are confused about the borders, you could try asking them to explain it then make a map yourself.