You're just used to Asia, the Pacific and the Americas being distorted.
OTL Map Thread Mk IV., 2014-
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Alex Richards
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I have a feeling that the distortion is actually somewhat worse in this respect than if we'd made the map from scratch rather than essentially 'pushing' the two halves of the map together. We didn't actually split the map directly down its midpoint for example (it's slightly off to the side so that all of Europe/Africa is on one side).
An actual pacific centred map would be more like this:
Upvoteanthology
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What we're used to seeing is the Pacific Ocean as distorted, not so much Asia or the Americans. Having a hemisphere-sized ocean as the centerpiece of a map about land doesn't make much sense, and our brains don't exactly process distorted water on a map differently from regular water.
I've actually spent the last few months on and off trying to complete a QBAM 1908 map. Its only half done, I could still post it if you want, but its covered with loads of little errors.
It's interesting that you mention him, because I've been helping him with the Commonwealth-Wank universe on DeviantArt.
It's the tiny bits that fascinate me - look at the southern exclave of Derbyshire around Ashby, or the random bits of Staffordshire inside the even more random bit of Shropshire in the middle of the Black Country.
Alex Richards
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Have you zoomed in on the utter madness that's Donisthorpe (part of Church Gresley Parish no less) yet?
Oh and fun fact, I literally drive across that little exclave to get to work (the site itself is in the Leicestershire Corridor).
Artaxerxes
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Is anyone aware of a decent high res map of Europe and specifically Britain in the bronze age up to Anglo Saxon period
I'd very much like a look at the Glastonbury landscape as it's meant to be very coastal but trying to find versions that aren't covered in ley lines and mumbo jumbo is bloody hard.
I'd very much like a look at the Glastonbury landscape as it's meant to be very coastal but trying to find versions that aren't covered in ley lines and mumbo jumbo is bloody hard.
