The M-BAM Main Thread

[Pogoboy20]

Ok a compromise to that sketchy is that we setup a team that will do that alone. While my detailing people work on the countries that are ready to be worked on. They can be called the base map team.

 

[Hominid]

Where can one find a detailed map that's in the Robinson projection? That would be necessary for this project.

 

[Stateless]

DRC and Cabinda:

Because the provinces have only recently changed, I cannot find current information about the secondary-level divisions.

São Tomé and Príncipe (with African coastline to line up against):

 

[Chicxulub]

DRC and Cabinda:

Because the provinces have only recently changed, I cannot find current information about the secondary-level divisions.

São Tomé and Príncipe (with African coastline to line up against):

Great work, I shall add it to the full map.

 

[Stateless]

Great work, I shall add it to the full map.

The south border of the DRC was wrong, so I edited the post with the corrected border (just some double pixels).

EDIT: Oh, and your signature has the

 

[Chicxulub]

The south border of the DRC was wrong, so I edited the post with the corrected border (just some double pixels).

EDIT: Oh, and your signature has the tags in the wrong place, so it's currently not going anywhere.[/QUOTE]

Both have been fixed.

 

[Pragmatic Progressive]

I propose we hold off on second level borders until the international and first level borders are done for each region.

I would agree... What would I need to do or, rather, how do I provide appropriate borders for this MBAM project? Compare them with some website? Because I could imagine to help with at least Germany...

 

[fluttersky]

I would agree... What would I need to do or, rather, how do I provide appropriate borders for this MBAM project? Compare them with some website? Because I could imagine to help with at least Germany...

I don't know how everyone else does it. I take a section of the Qbam, expand it by 300% (thus making each old pixel nine new pixels in a 3x3 grid), and then manually replace the old borders with new ones, looking at Google Maps for any border nuances that need to be added.

 

[Hominid]

I don't know how everyone else does it. I take a section of the Qbam, expand it by 300% (thus making each old pixel nine new pixels in a 3x3 grid), and then manually replace the old borders with new ones, looking at Google Maps for any border nuances that need to be added.

Again, I'm not sure if Google Maps is the right tool for this, since it's a totally different projection.

 

[Chicxulub]

Again, I'm not sure if Google Maps is the right tool for this, since it's a totally different projection.

Google Maps should work for areas near the Equator and Prime Meridian.

 

[Hominid]

Google Maps should work for areas near the Equator and Prime Meridian.

True enough, although even there there will be some small differences.

 

[Chicxulub]

True enough, although even there there will be some small differences.

Which is why we are basing it off the Q-BAM.

 

[fluttersky]

Again, I'm not sure if Google Maps is the right tool for this, since it's a totally different projection.

True. But as long as you mentally correct for that, you should be okay.

You can usually get a good feel of the scale of the stretching and skew by comparing the original QBAM outline to the Google Maps outline.

Not sure what alternatives there would be to this method.

Here's my current progress. Shows the results of my method in action.

Orkney islands were probably the trickiest part. Am not looking forward to western Scotland.

 

[Chicxulub]

True. But as long as you mentally correct for that, you should be okay.

You can usually get a good feel of the scale of the stretching and skew by comparing the original QBAM outline to the Google Maps outline.

Not sure what alternatives there would be to this method.

Here's my current progress. Shows the results of my method in action.

Orkney islands were probably the trickiest part. Am not looking forward to western Scotland.

Western Scotland will be easy compared to the Norwegian Fjords.

 

[Ashtagon]

Google Maps should work for areas near the Equator and Prime Meridian.

Along the prime meridian, you still have to watch out for vertical distortion.

 

[Stateless]

There's also the fact that the QBAM wasn't centred on the prime meridian, but around the 10th meridian east.

 

[Chicxulub]

There's also the fact that the QBAM wasn't centred on the prime meridian, but around the 10th meridian east.

I am guessing that is so all of Russia is on the same side of the map.

 

[worldmap]

I don't know how everyone else does it. I take a section of the Qbam, expand it by 300% (thus making each old pixel nine new pixels in a 3x3 grid), and then manually replace the old borders with new ones, looking at Google Maps for any border nuances that need to be added.

do you happen to have that blank qbam with modern borders?

 

[Ashtagon]

There's also the fact that the QBAM wasn't centred on the prime meridian, but around the 10th meridian east.

It sounds like someone needs to grab that nasa re-projection program and redo qbam from the ground up!

 

[JG Online]

okey fine i´ll start on japan then...