Map of the Fortnight: Main Discussion Thread

[TapReflex]

I’d like to participate in this, but I’m not very good at making maps. What drawing software do you all usually use for this?

Well, really any drawing software is good if you know how to work the program. MS Paint is probably the simplest and most folks computers already have it.

GIMP and Paint.net are also good programs, though I tend to use Inkscape exclusively all are free to use.

 

[Oliveia]

Ay, real quick. My submission is almost done but I have to go to bed soon -- school tomorrow. I promise it will be done by tomorrow -- I'll shoot for before 7PM (EST). If I can have the deadline extended 'til then (if that's an extension), I'd be really grateful.

 

[Kaiphranos]

Ay, real quick. My submission is almost done but I have to go to bed soon -- school tomorrow. I promise it will be done by tomorrow -- I'll shoot for before 7PM (EST). If I can have the deadline extended 'til then (if that's an extension), I'd be really grateful.

Since we are still light on entries for this round, I will go ahead and wait until this evening to post the voting thread for you or anyone else to squeak in an entry for MotF 204. In the meantime, I have posted the entry thread for the next round:

MotF 205: You Pan Handle It - Entries Thread

 

[TheKutKu]

A panhandle contest

What have you done????!!!!

Do you really want to unleash the worst colonial and post colonial administrative divisions and borders?

Also can panhandle “link” two regions, instead of being at one end of a county? Like say, if you merged Namibia with Zimbabwe, then the former Namibian panhandle/caprivi strip would still exist, but it would be used as a thin “bridge” to link two thicker regions, but it wouldn’t be at an end of the country.

 

[Not Plato]

A panhandle contest

What have you done????!!!!

Do you really want to unleash the worst colonial and post colonial administrative divisions and borders?

Also can panhandle “link” two regions, instead of being at one end of a county? Like say, if you merged Namibia with Zimbabwe, then the former Namibian panhandle/caprivi strip would still exist, but it would be used as a thin “bridge” to link two thicker regions, but it wouldn’t be at an end of the country.

The terrible, terrible image of Namibia-Zimbabwe as one country, connected by only a five-mile-thick strip of land, has been forever seared into my mind. I hope you’re happy with yourself.

 

[Kaiphranos]

A panhandle contest

What have you done????!!!!

Do you really want to unleash the worst colonial and post colonial administrative divisions and borders?

Also can panhandle “link” two regions, instead of being at one end of a county? Like say, if you merged Namibia with Zimbabwe, then the former Namibian panhandle/caprivi strip would still exist, but it would be used as a thin “bridge” to link two thicker regions, but it wouldn’t be at an end of the country.

Bring it on. I think your proposed "bridge" would fit the spirit of the contest.

 

[Kaiphranos]

Round 204 is now closed, and the voting thread is up:

MotF 204: Take Me Out/I Miss You - Voting Thread

Also, congratulations to @deleonism for winning MotF 203: Under One Banner with their map of the British Confederation!

 

[The Tai-Pan]

Got something for the panhandle map!

 

[TheKutKu]

Got something for the panhandle map!

Username Checks Out

 

[Etruscan-enthusiast35]

So, what are the requirements for suggesting a new topic for future MotF's?

 

[Oliveia]

So, what are the requirements for suggesting a new topic for future MotF's?

just post an idea, really

 

[Etruscan-enthusiast35]

In My Life
Depict a country at the date of its founding, its greatest extent, and its current borders.

I Want it All
Show a countries attempt at conquering it's neighbors.

Devil in Disguise
Depict a warmongering nation presenting itself as an ancient empire to justify its actions.

 

[TapReflex]

MOTF 205 entry

Bilbo?
Do there be Dwarven Gold in them there hills?

 

[wolfhound817]

Bilbo?
Do there be Dwarven Gold in them there hills?

No it’s a Reference to the Mississippi governor who hated the Mormons. Ittl the Mormons are more rebellious and so Utah is a military territory until the thirties and they name the state after the harshest military governor. It’s a darker version of the USA

 

[Mina-van-Mako]

Don't do beheading kids !

Depict a country after a failed revolution (in any sense of the word)

The Great Leap Forward

Make a map of a country, region or city going through major government-mandated change in a very fast pace

 

[TapReflex]

The Mission
Show a community/nation in which a majority have converted to a new religion

Run to the Hills
Show a community/nation fleeing from a larger neighbor/violence/the woes of settled agriculture/etc. (See Maroons, Hmong/Miao, Eastern Band Cherokee, etc.)

City Unbound
Make a map depicting a city which is regarded as the city of the future

Days of Lead
Make a map depicting a low level insurgency in a country

More restricted PoD ideas:

What He Always Wanted to Do
Make a map depicting a world without Robert Moses and his giant impact

Punch Up
Have a Latin American country inflict a significant military/economic blow to The US/European power (PoD restriction 1829-1929)

Goodbye Lenin
Depict an alternate post-Soviet eastern bloc (POD restriction 1962-1992)

Also, Dr. Nodelescu has some good ideas

One challenge down, five to go.

 

[Thanosaekk]

Goodbye Lenin
Depict an alternate post-Soviet eastern bloc (POD restriction 1962-1992)

Yes, I want this so much!

 

[KaiserEmu]

Goodbye Lenin
Depict an alternate post-Soviet eastern bloc (POD restriction 1962-1992)

Yes, I want this so much!

I second this.

 

[Hindustani Person]

I second this.

I third it

 

[lock]

Goodbye Lenin
Depict an alternate post-Soviet eastern bloc (POD restriction 1962-1992)

I third it

Make this restriction begin in 1952, and I have a great idea that's been mulling around in my head for about a year and a half.

(And I suppose it also depends on how you define "eastern block.")

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