The map is beautiful, but the names made it ASB. The POD need to be somewhere in the 1000 or before (successful Viking settlement). That mean an early europeean settlement, so the OTL city names would be butterfly away.
Haha, really?
Okay, some things I was simply having fun with. The map was designed to blakanise America as much as possible and it would require a tremendously convoluted timeline with divergences in the 1000s.
Still, I posit that ALL the OTL city names (okay, maybe not Houston, Prince Rupert or Philadelphia) were likely repeats in any history timeline where the butterflies are reasonably sluggish (I'm not a great believer in hyperactive caffeinated butterflies personally anyway.)
Vancouver - English miltary family of dutch descent, from Coeverden. Would it make sense in Nova Scotia, especially one that's next to New Zealand. There's bound to be a famous Lord Halifax and he's bound to have a million places named after his relatives if Britain is anything like OTL.
Baltimore - makes sense in Hiberno-British Quebec.
Montreal - mean "royal mountain" and is about as unlikely as "Newport" or "Rabat", which is to say that the probability of major colonial settlement being named Montreal approaches 1 if any Frenchmen are involved.
Detroit means "the Straits", also a very likely name given its location.
Quebec, Toronto, Chicago, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Kutenai and Atabaska are all native names, very likely to have been repeated.
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How about just having a simple game - you guess which are was colonised by whom and what langauge it speaks based on my ASB names.
