Map Thread V
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Do you have this map with modern borders, or any OTL borders, or even blank? I'm always trying to collect maps to use for Alt-history drawing and I don't much care for the smaller map. This one is perfect.
Krall
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Do you have this map with modern borders, or any OTL borders, or even blank? I'm always trying to collect maps to use for Alt-history drawing and I don't much care for the smaller map. This one is perfect.
I'm pretty sure a base map meeting the terms of your request can be found in the Blank Map Thread.
Some random comments on your map (which, I think, looks rather nice on the whole):
- The labels seem rather large and thus clutter the map;
- The difference between the outlined major countries and non-outlined minors is huge and does not look good, because that reveals the boxy non-anti-aliased borderlines which are at least partially obscured where the outlines are;
- Some parts of the map look rather cluttered in general (France, Germany), while others are wide open (Russia); while this is true in many cases, it may be helped by reducing the city labels and maybe adding a few non-capital cities here and there in the less cluttered areas;
- The style of the ocean (rather dark, non-saturated colour) and the crumpled paper really don't work with the colour scheme you used for the country outlines; ever heard of the four-colour scheme? You may try using that instead, or try copying the colour scheme used in the maps of the period you are trying to emulate; in any case, the country outlines should be less saturated;
- The longitude and latitude lines look rather messy and completely artificial (as in, they don't fit with the rest of the map).
Hope this helps
- The labels seem rather large and thus clutter the map;
- The difference between the outlined major countries and non-outlined minors is huge and does not look good, because that reveals the boxy non-anti-aliased borderlines which are at least partially obscured where the outlines are;
- Some parts of the map look rather cluttered in general (France, Germany), while others are wide open (Russia); while this is true in many cases, it may be helped by reducing the city labels and maybe adding a few non-capital cities here and there in the less cluttered areas;
- The style of the ocean (rather dark, non-saturated colour) and the crumpled paper really don't work with the colour scheme you used for the country outlines; ever heard of the four-colour scheme? You may try using that instead, or try copying the colour scheme used in the maps of the period you are trying to emulate; in any case, the country outlines should be less saturated;
- The longitude and latitude lines look rather messy and completely artificial (as in, they don't fit with the rest of the map).
Hope this helps
Hapsburg
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I have one that's blank in the "uninhabited" UCS colour and one that is in OTL current international boundaries.Do you have this map with modern borders, or any OTL borders, or even blank? I'm always trying to collect maps to use for Alt-history drawing and I don't much care for the smaller map. This one is perfect.
I can PM them to you if you like, or post them in the Base Maps thread. Your call.
Hapsburg
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Just tried to. Since it won't let me upload images for a PM, I tried uploading them to imageshack and posting the links. And...the 'Shack won't work. Keeps timing out.
So, you'll find them in the A Blank Map Thread right now.
Well apart from Photoshop, which is'nt free, well unless you torrent it, their's GIMP (which is what is apparently used for some of the fancy maps) and PAINT.net.
Not necessarily; the United States had a shot (maybe 15-25%) of getting Vancouver Island south of the 49th in OTL 1846; it wasn't likely, but very, very possible- and since the northern half of the island had about one settlement at the time, it's within the wide realm of possibility that, with a POD around 1842, the island could end up under US control.The only problem I would say with the plausibility of your map is Vancouver Island. The British would never surrender it to the Americans for two reasons: strategic location along the entire region and that it was two far north of American settlement of the region.
Cool map
WHAT DID YOU DO TO OREGON!?!
WHAT DID YOU- oh, I see what you did. Carry on.
(Oh, boy. I'm becoming a single-issue fanatic. Susano has his HRE; AnalyticalEngine has his Turbo-Austria/British Empire; I have Oregon Country.
)Paint.net. Use it. Love it.
Make sure to use paths and draw them at a smaller width than the symbols you use for cities?
Okay it's not a great achievment, but it's the first time i'm not cannibalize Wikicommons.
Socialist Federation of Czechosilesia, in 1974, french communist party document.
Socialist Federation of Czechosilesia, in 1974, french communist party document.
I have only one criticism that comes to mind; I can't speak French
.Aesthetically speaking, your map is very well done. I have to agree with the textbook feeling. Very interesting.
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