Map Thread XX

[Leonidas]

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This looks really neat! It's worth noting that the true size of countries like Canada is often distorted by map projections, so if it was placed closer to the equator it would be shown more like this:

Meanwhile, the newly arctic regions of Brazil, Colombia, etc would look more like this:

So when we get a total flip...

(from thetruesize.com)

 

[wendishman]

I've been a fan of the Fallout series since Fallout 3 came out, or rather, since I saw the trailer for that game... It's one of my favourite fictional universes still. Long time ago and even to today I wanted to make my own version of things. The idea came to me like a decade ago, Fallout: New York. However, I never felt, and I still don't feel, like I could do the idea justice even though the fanfiction is planned from beginning to end. So, I took on a smaller project some time ago and continued iterating from time to time, seeing if there would be a time when I had a combination of time and will that was favourable enough to finish it. That came now.

Apologies if I have posted this map before, it's quite old actually so I don't really recall. Here's one of the first iterations of the concept; unfinished, but serving as a base for the next big project I have. This will be my version of Fallout: Western Europe.

I say my version because it's how I want it to be, including contradicting some of the source material and expanding upon some of it, with a healthy dose of wacky stuff that many could dislike. Well, it's my version and so you are warned. While Fallout: New York was planned as (really long) book, Fallout: Western Europe is planned more as a personal worldbuilding thing.

Just as a tease: do you remember the size of the common maps here in AH.com? Well, Jersey and Guernsey are each larger than the island of Great Britain in worlda format in the map that I am now making. Discarding the distortion of the projection, I safely say that, comparing the size of a single pixel to the width of the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam, a single pixel is around 500 metres in size.

If everything continues going alright, the map should be finished come March, I guess.

With all that said, I cannot leave without any kind of progress, so here's one of the first iterations of the map of Fallout: Western Europe.

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Ooo I love this.

You have any write ups for what everything is?

 

[Zek Sora]

This looks really neat! It's worth noting that the true size of countries like Canada is often distorted by map projections, so if it was placed closer to the equator it would be shown more like this:

Meanwhile, the newly arctic regions of Brazil, Colombia, etc would look more like this:

So when we get a total flip...

(from thetruesizeof.com)

I don't know that that's the case—the original map doesn't look like a Mercator to me. Not 100% on what it actually is, though.

But it probably wasn't reprojected, you're right.

 

[Fox-Fire]

You have any write ups for what everything is?

I think some might have survived, but I'm not sure that any of this particular iteration, or such an old iteration, still exists. Certainly none written in English survive from this time.

 

[Library of Alexandria]

Is Canberra supposed to still be in Australia (Nyunga)?

Canberra is an Aboriginal name, from the Yass-Canberra district of New South Wales that was ceded to the federal government early after federation.

 

[DracoLazarus]

I've been a fan of the Fallout series since Fallout 3 came out, or rather, since I saw the trailer for that game... It's one of my favourite fictional universes still. Long time ago and even to today I wanted to make my own version of things. The idea came to me like a decade ago, Fallout: New York. However, I never felt, and I still don't feel, like I could do the idea justice even though the fanfiction is planned from beginning to end. So, I took on a smaller project some time ago and continued iterating from time to time, seeing if there would be a time when I had a combination of time and will that was favourable enough to finish it. That came now.

Apologies if I have posted this map before, it's quite old actually so I don't really recall. Here's one of the first iterations of the concept; unfinished, but serving as a base for the next big project I have. This will be my version of Fallout: Western Europe.

I say my version because it's how I want it to be, including contradicting some of the source material and expanding upon some of it, with a healthy dose of wacky stuff that many could dislike. Well, it's my version and so you are warned. While Fallout: New York was planned as (really long) book, Fallout: Western Europe is planned more as a personal worldbuilding thing.

Just as a tease: do you remember the size of the common maps here in AH.com? Well, Jersey and Guernsey are each larger than the island of Great Britain in worlda format in the map that I am now making. Discarding the distortion of the projection, I safely say that, comparing the size of a single pixel to the width of the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam, a single pixel is around 500 metres in size.

If everything continues going alright, the map should be finished come March, I guess.

With all that said, I cannot leave without any kind of progress, so here's one of the first iterations of the map of Fallout: Western Europe.

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I have an idea : the French nuclear carrier becoming a sort of floating island, the Charles de Ghoul

 

[Cereskia]

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Well maybe this is more blessed than cursed...?

 

[CactusCartocratus]

A map of Europe in 1960 if the Axis won WW2 - yes I know very original. Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistory/comments/qvpwq9

Deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/mrcactus04/art/A-Map-of-Europe-in-1960-Axis-Victory-898151822?ga_sub

 

[CactusCartocratus]

And now the rest of the world.

 

[Born in the USSA]

A map of Europe in 1960 if the Axis won WW2 - yes I know very original. Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistory/comments/qvpwq9

Deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/mrcactus04/art/A-Map-of-Europe-in-1960-Axis-Victory-898151822?ga_sub

So is that unlabeled portion a Pale of Settlement to show that irony is dead and buried (and form a nifty buffer)?

 

[CactusCartocratus]

So is that unlabeled portion a Pale of Settlement to show that irony is dead and buried (and form a nifty buffer)?

It's a military administered zone. The front is still a bit fluid. Basically areas occupied not assigned to any reichskommissariat. But very cool idea.

 

[Born in the USSA]

It's a military administered zone. The front is still a bit fluid. Basically areas occupied not assigned to any reichskommissariat. But very cool idea.

Happy to be of service

 

[CactusCartocratus]

And now 1980. Opinions on plausibility and future?

 

[Frank Hart]

And now the rest of the world.
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If that's supposed to be the global version of the 1960 map, then Chelyabinsk is part of the USSR while the part of Kazakhstan west of the Mugodzhar Hills and the Emba River should be part of Nazi Germany right?

 

[CactusCartocratus]

If that's supposed to be the global version of the 1960 map, then Chelyabinsk is part of the USSR while the part of Kazakhstan west of the Mugodzhar Hills and the Emba River should be part of Nazi Germany right?

Idk the global map is older I might have changed my mind on some things.

 

[ByteMe]

Canberra is an Aboriginal name, from the Yass-Canberra district of New South Wales that was ceded to the federal government early after federation.

Adding onto that, Canberra means 'meeting place' in the local language.

 

[Sovereign12]

Canberra is an Aboriginal name, from the Yass-Canberra district of New South Wales that was ceded to the federal government early after federation.

Shouldn't it be something sounding closer to Kanpeila, then?

 

[Library of Alexandria]

Shouldn't it be something sounding closer to Kanpeila, then?

No, all the other names appear to be based off of aboriginal endonyms.

 

[Bleh]

And now 1980. Opinions on plausibility and future?

Highly implausible. The damn thing should have exploded already. The Nazi war machine was built to run on plunder and had zero stops to keep itself from burning out. They were murderers interested in roleplaying a sick fantasy over functional statecraft.

 

[spoonzandforkz]

And now 1980. Opinions on plausibility and future?

Well, Nazi Germany is probably headed for a big fall; with how disastrous their economic policies and level of political corruption were I'm surprised they've survived as long as is already.