Please notice that the M-Bam has been in development for two years now, so you can expect that the X-Bam will be done over about 20 years
The M-BAM Main Thread
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Glad to see people are still working on this. I was worried this was being abandoned for all the bigger map projects (that'll take even longer) that kept popping up. People need to realize that bigger doesnt always mean better.
Perhaps somebody should start a life-sized map thread.
What's wrong with straight lines? Now if you complained of our excessive use of river borders, I'd understand, but the straight lines work out nicely.
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-" excessive use of river borders"
- "straight lines aren't wrong"
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Straight lines are ugly on maps. I mean, look at Europe's glorious way of doing things, it makes it nice and interesting.
Yes, I like that idea. 1 pixel to 1 cm, right? If we get it big enough, people won't notice it's distorted.
I we get it big enough people won't notice that it's flat
River borders tend to split cities, and they wind around so much that a state's border essentially consists of a thousand tiny round panhandles. I know how unpopular pandhandles are on this site, and I understand why. A more practical natural border would be along the high points of mountain ranges, where those exist, because you're much less likely to split a city along those borders. There are places where river borders make the most sense, especially on rivers that are difficult to cross at times, but when half of the borders are rivers, it's not ideal. In the areas where there are no mountains and the rivers are easy to cross, and you can draw a straight line without splitting a city, then a straight line is a fine border. Australia and Canada are blessed with the opportunities to draw straightforward lines. I see the borders the way I see borders of electoral districts. I see a problem when I see a map full of the curves and panhandles, with districts that look like salamanders, octopuses, and bird claws talons, splitting one city up into 9 different districts that stretch off into all different directions. I see signs of good horse sense when I see a map made of compactly-shaped districts that don't split up cities, and avoid arbitrary pandhandles and wavy lines. Box-shapes districts may not be as pretty as octopus-shaped ones, but I'd feel safer putting my valuables in a box rather than in an octopus.
Wait, are you saying the Earth ISN'T flat? Of course it is! Everyone knows that, right?
It's not the small divisions I like curvy and full of panhandles, it's the bigger ones, ie. first and second level divisions. Smaller ones should have straight lines, but not be boxes.
Yeah? Why's that?
1 pixel to 1 cm? I think my monitor has about 50 pixels to 1 cm. I haven't seen a 1cm pixel since I was a kid. But perhaps this weekend, we can start a bigger-than-life map.
Eh, we can't have it ACTUALLY life size, we've got to aim for realistic goals.
Alex Richards
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British parishes do often have straight lines from field boundaries, but not usually very long ones.
It's not really a debate, more contradiction. A debate is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.
Yes, but that's a small division. I'm talking about subdivisions big enough to be shown on the map.