County-BAM

[Aquagel8last320]

beauty.

 

[Dr. No]

You know what? The civil engineer that I never was feel the aching urge to straighten the Mississippi River. Just saying.

 

[JJohnson]

Brilliant work. It will be very useful for many future projects I feel.

Agreed. This is amazing work.

Not to pile on your plate, but would it be possible to have a Mexico and Canada County map in the same scale? That'd be great for Alt-Hist Maps of varying states like an Ottawa (Ontario Peninsula) or Rio Grande, etc. Perhaps a historic (19th century) Great Britain counties? The old 39 counties of England and so on would be nice to see again in the same scale, and maybe the German Empire also.

 

[Alex Richards]

Agreed. This is amazing work.

Not to pile on your plate, but would it be possible to have a Mexico and Canada County map in the same scale? That'd be great for Alt-Hist Maps of varying states like an Ottawa (Ontario Peninsula) or Rio Grande, etc. Perhaps a historic (19th century) Great Britain counties? The old 39 counties of England and so on would be nice to see again in the same scale, and maybe the German Empire also.

There's already some maps for the old English counties floating about the place, though not on the same scale (and frankly that's not likely to be all that useful anyway). I'll see if I can find a link when I get home.

 

[Chicxulub]

I would like some help with drawing the Congressional Districts, especially in the extremely gerrymandered state.

 

[Chicxulub]

Here's a minor update to the County-BAM, I fixed a few areas where I forgot to fill in the water, and I added the border between Currituck and Dare counties in North Carolina.

And here's a modified version with lighter county borders, which I think looks better.

 

[LouisTheGreyFox]

I think it be cooler if you did timelines of counties. I found a site that shows this. http://www.historykat.com/artifact/census.html

 

[Stuyvesant]

I think it be cooler if you did timelines of counties. I found a site that shows this. http://www.historykat.com/artifact/census.html

I prefer http://www.mapofus.org/virginia/

 

[JJohnson]

Here's a minor update to the County-BAM, I fixed a few areas where I forgot to fill in the water, and I added the border between Currituck and Dare counties in North Carolina.


And here's a modified version with lighter county borders, which I think looks better.

I like this county map. With a few alterations it would be a good base for an alternate US with Rio Grande, Baja California (split California along that straight line county), Arizona's coast, Nova Scotia, Columbia (49° to 52° N of British Columbia), Ottawa (Ontario Peninsula) (and other Canadian/American states), Virgin Islands (US+UK), Bahamas, Bermuda, American Polynesia, etc.

 

[Chicxulub]

I have an announcement to make. I am restarting the County-BAM, this time I'm basing it off the 2015 county wall map from the Census Bureau website. The new County-BAM will be 80% larger, and will have cleaner and more accurate borders and coastlines.

 

[Utgard96]

I have an announcement to make. I am restarting the County-BAM, this time I'm basing it off the 2015 county wall map from the Census Bureau website. The new County-BAM will be 80% larger, and will have cleaner and more accurate borders and coastlines.

MY BODY IS READY

 

[Chicxulub]

MY BODY IS READY

Here is my current progress, which should give an idea of how large it will be.

 

[Utgard96]

I'll never have to trace my own basemaps for Laboratories of Democracy again. *sobs*

 

[Chicxulub]

Live progress, will be updated as each state is finished.

Counties done: 335 (10.66%)
States done: 6 (12%)

Currently working on: New England

 

[kodak]

At this size, we could make a reasonable town map of the US.

 

[Utgard96]

At this size, we could make a reasonable town map of the US.

Far from every state has uniform towns, and the ones that don't generally have completely insane municipal borders. Have a good look at South Carolina or Alabama in OSM at some point and you'll see what I mean.

 

[kodak]

Far from every state has uniform towns, and the ones that don't generally have completely insane municipal borders. Have a good look at South Carolina or Alabama in OSM at some point and you'll see what I mean.

...I think I see your point.

At least New York has nice town lines. If you ignore the villages, it could be mapped out pretty easily.

 

[Chicxulub]

Far from every state has uniform towns, and the ones that don't generally have completely insane municipal borders. Have a good look at South Carolina or Alabama in OSM at some point and you'll see what I mean.

However, for an example, Alabama has County Civil Divisions, which are a rough equivalent to the Minor Civil Divisions seen throughout the Midwest and Northeast.

 

[Utgard96]

At least New York has nice town lines. If you ignore the villages, it could be mapped out pretty easily.

The now-banned VT45 did a map of New England and New York by town a few years ago. I think we can all agree it's pretty fantastic:

 

[Chicxulub]

The now-banned VT45 did a map of New England and New York by town a few years ago.

And Daily Kos had one for the 2012 election that included Pennsylvania and New Jersey.