Map Thread XVIII
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Hey everyone, the print version of the People's Socialist Atlas is coming out on December 7th! That's three days from now! To drum up some hype, every day until then I'll be posting a NEW map from the book. Seriously, this new edition is insanely more detailed and features over one hundred good-looking maps. Buy it soon!
South America
Oh hell yeah!
It’s the first map that I have made in a long time so constructive criticism would be appreciated 
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Great questions.
@Kanan designed an amazing website that I'm excited to share on the 7th. It really does look amazing. It will also be available on Amazon, but at a later date and at a higher cost.
@Kanan designed an amazing website that I'm excited to share on the 7th. It really does look amazing. It will also be available on Amazon, but at a later date and at a higher cost.
Good question! I'm debating the price right now, and it will end up being higher than I want it to be for a few reasons. After spending a year improving and reworking this from the ground up, I've found out that it's really expensive to self-publish books, and if I want basically any profit at all, I'd need to sell it for at least 45 dollars. In case I lost you there, let me try to pull you back in. This version of the book will be close to 400 pages, all in full color. The thousands of hours of work I've put into this project will hopefully offset the price a little bit. I know that it's expensive, but this is mostly a one-girl operation, and I've spent so much time trying to make it perfect. I guarantee that the quality will be worth the price.
Well, I might have some extra money - they were doing some filming near our apartment and they're supposed to pay an inconvenience fee for keeping the lights off for a night (apparently all it takes for our apartments to look post-apocalyptic is to turn the lights out). If I get it, I'm definitely buying.
In 1696, Whiston William published the book "A New Theory of the Earth, From its Original ..." where he reflected on the creation of the world and its end, the causes of the finiteness of all life. In a rapidly gaining popularity book, the scientist made an assumption about the origin of the Earth from comets. And the Great Flood, in his opinion, was the result of the passage of our planet through the tail of a huge comet consisting of water. Whiston predicted the exact date of the End of the World - October 13, 1736 - from a cosmic body that would collapse on Earth, after which the planet would flood.
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The comet collided not with the Earth, but with the Moon, forming a disk of ice fragments around the Earth. In contact with the earth's atmosphere, the fragments began to fall out with abundant rains, threatening to turn into a global catastrophe that forever changed the face of our planet.
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80 years after the End of the World and 50 years after the end of the Rain.
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The comet collided not with the Earth, but with the Moon, forming a disk of ice fragments around the Earth. In contact with the earth's atmosphere, the fragments began to fall out with abundant rains, threatening to turn into a global catastrophe that forever changed the face of our planet.
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80 years after the End of the World and 50 years after the end of the Rain.
Interesting ASB-ness. How much has the sea level risen? Clearly more than the 200 feet or so from melting ice caps.
Thanks.
I thought about the mega-Dzungaria for almost the rest of Asia and the revived Inca Empire in South America, but it’s hard to find a suitable global elevation map.
500 meters. The plot is based on the episode about the flood from the National Geographic documentary "Evacuate Earth" (however, there was not limited to 500 meters).
I was about to say that I found this strange due to what happened to Switzerland, but on closer expecting it is mostly Geneva and some border areas that got the ax, most of which I believe had not actually joined the Swiss Confederatoin at this point in time. So it still stands. I don't see Iceland as being a good place for New Britain, given the lack of resources there. Given the constant rains though, I imagine that it would have been difficult for large amount of people to cross to the Americas like we often have for other maps. Besides which, as the Little Ice Age showed us with its periodic years of rain, crops can be decimated in short order and famine spread across the land. Does this world have the Rain coming in seasons or was it non-stop for decades? Is this ice that supposedly comes from the Moon or the comet? I can't see there being very much. It does however make me wonder about worlds with massive rains of fresh water that might fill in New fresh-water seas. Though I imagine a lot would drain out by rivers.
After the flood, the boundaries still changed, of course.
This is just one of the evacuation places from Britain.
About America, I thought that its coast would also sink pretty quickly, this can reduce the desire to go there.
At first I wanted to make a new Britain in Scandinavia, but then I thought that there is enough its own population there.
The main part of the comet fragments run out in 30 years (I had a smaller comet than in the movie), I think after that the weather should return to normal.
Here are land points on Earth with an antipodal that is also land, because you never know when you want to dig through the center of the Earth.
I'll be your patron.
Warning: large images
https://reexplo.red/misc/500m/asia.png -> Map of Afro-Eurasia
https://reexplo.red/misc/500m/africa.png -> Map of Africa
https://reexplo.red/misc/500m/northamerica.png -> Map of North America
https://reexplo.red/misc/500m/southamerica.png -> Map of South America
https://reexplo.red/misc/500m/eastasia.png -> (bonus) Map of East Asia
https://reexplo.red/misc/500m/australia.png -> Map of Australia
https://reexplo.red/misc/500m/world.png -> World map, equirectangular
https://reexplo.red/misc/500m/world-robinson.png -> World map, Robinson
The gold highlights along the coast of the world maps represent all areas within 50m of sea level. The reasoning behind this is that the gold areas represent likely coastal plains, since when you raise sea level by 500m most of the coast becomes jagged mountains without anywhere for new coastal metropolii! In this raised-sea-level-world, new coastal metropolii will likely arise in the gold areas.
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