I am also not sure. The submission was not very clearly written. Feel free to submit maps along either interpretation.Hi, long-term reader and lurker with a folder full of half-finished maps here
I'm a little confused about this challenge: should we be depicting a world where a revisionist/ahistorical/pseudohistorical theory (like say, a conspiracy theory) has gained mass acceptance with the public and/or is being presented as true by the authorities? OR should we be depicting an ahistorical/pseudohistorical/revisionist theory as if it were actually true?
(I assumed it was the former, but now I'm not sure 😅)
Map of the Fortnight: Main Discussion Thread
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I will hold the voting thread to tomorrow if you have one in progress.
Four Corners: Make a map of four or more entities which share, or almost share, a common point. Examples: Utah/Colorado/Arizona/New Mexico, Namibia/Zambia/Botswana/Zimbabwe (they almost meet), the four suyus of the Incan Empire which all meet at Cuzco, that one proposal to slice Europe up like a pie, Egypt/Hala'ib/Bir Tawil/Sudan, South Pole, Mount Etna (10 communes meet there, one twice), the original 1947 UN partition plan for Palestine that had two points where Israel and Palestine crossed over.
Hello all! I'm going on a camping trip this weekend, so the new entry thread will be posted on Friday rather than Monday. However, I won't post the 257 voting thread until Wednesday or so. In that time you can submit to either or both contests.
In the absence of any other entries I will extend 257 to next week. Both 257 and 258 will end on July 4.
The geography underlay in my maps are very easy to do with QGIS! See the link in my signature for more details. Also, I know someone on the forum is writing a beginner tutorial, it might be worth looking at!
Probably whenever @NeonHydroxide gets to it? I think they are American?
New threads are up, voting 257, voting 258, entries 259. I'm going to try an experiment going forwards in which the contests will last three weeks instead of two, to give people more time to get maps in since that seemed to work well for 257. However, there will still be a new challenge every fortnight, so at any given point after this gets rolling, two different contests will be open for submissions, as there was this last week. Hopefully this isn't too confusing - let me know what you all think!
Wouldn't it make more sense to have them lasting a month each? Like you would have two asynchronous contests running simultaneously, each lasting a month and being opened each fortnight.
I guess three weeks works the same, it just avoids you having to wait a week between one being closed and another opening. Although I suppose voting takes a week, so each being 3 weeks mapping + 1 week voting makes sense.
Sorry for the rant, I guess I just wanted to point out some options
And I thought I made a good map for the MOTF, but then there were two submissions that were downright horrifying.