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Ha!! It actually gets better... That video's Knights of Malta section (second-last, just before Sweden) consists almost entirely of quotes from the Wikipedia page, which as it happens, I wrote. So the video plagiarizes me twice. Mm, feels good. I'm not personally upset, I feel like one of the...

Sorry I'm not up to speed with the Oceania content. That's not what this post is. Instead I have the pleasure of announcing that I finally, after something like 6 months, have access to my ancient desktop computer with all the Doomsday content. That sort of means I can see my maps again. There...

You're right, just about the only consistent thing so far is a POD of 1600, and personally I'm not very willing to change that. The rest of the world could quickly turn into a free-for-all. But 1600 is still well before any colonization. Is there any way to effect a change that would protect...

Yes, and I think I added the cities that I could from extant maps. As for adding more cities, I started drawing a paper map in order to do that (still having no access to the computer I use for drawing); but the time demands of Distance Learning and Working From Home, as well as various...

I've begun adding a few. I think the Indian states are the hardest because they each have a rich symbolic tradition that's not easy to parse using a basic online search.

That is really interesting. I like the idea of calling both peaks Las Pelonas, it's fitting. What about the name for Mount Mitchell? in OTL it's named for a geologist originally from Connecticut. It's certainly conceivable that such a person would come to Carolina in TTL, what with Carolina and...

It's amazing to see this coming together like this. Delaware Bay's most usual name is The Poutaxat or Poutaxat Bay. Virginians still use the name Delaware, but even other English speakers have mostly shifted to the Lenape name.

You know what, though, that might actually be a working example. In rural Muscoguia there probably isn't very much standard Spanish being spoken; or at least there wasn't before the age of mass media. In that case, the creole-speaking population there would learn the standard relatively late in...

It certainly would!

It could still be a creole with influence from more than one source; the distinction would be how much grammar is preserved. Michif, from what I know, is just about totally unique in preserving all the complex grammar and phonology from both languages. The OTL (extinct) language of the Mohawk...

I'm ambivalent too. Gian's done a lot of riffs on the ASB world, so it's not a problem as such. And convergent history is nothing new to this timeline, though convergent current events aren't something we've done yet. We'll need some more discussion to decide if this is part of the main ASB...

Of course, but you know, with different projections and such tracing maps can be inexact, especially when you switch basemaps. If you think it's a genuine error, you can leave Roanoke off the map for now.

At such time as I can access the layers of those maps, I'll take a look, but that might not be for a while. The city was intended to be the same Roanoke as in TTL, and the maps I traced showed it as such. Regarding Indianapolis and Columbus, I agree with @erictom333 that there should be...

Columbus and Indy were only placed where they were to be centrally-located state capitals, so there's no reason to assume they'd be important sites in TTL.

I put my reply on the wrong side of the quote-box.

Any ideas as to the timeline when this developed? And by ally, do you mean it's an ally today, or more of a permanent ally/client?

Well the map, at least, is mostly filled in. The list of countries, from the wiki, is: Dutch Suriname Republic of New Torarica: Jewish-dominated state in Suriname's interior Kingdom of New Providence: English dominion roughly occupying the space of OTL French Guiana New Tuscany / Nuova...

That's certainly something I can help with. For Ohio, there indeed are maps with town names. They're generally historic maps rather than contemporary ones, but the principal towns from that era have endured as centers of government and settlement. This is the only one I have access to at the...

The most up-to-date Worlda is from last November. It's incomplete, simply because nobody knows what's in the blank parts of the world as of yet.

Nothing, I'm sorry to say. Since I last posted I've had some major changes in my personal, family and work life, and I haven't been able to cook up much.