I mean, yeah, that's what Wikipedia says, but I briefly browsed around maps like the OP for France's colonial empire in Africa and I've seen greens and yellows, but no blues. That's both English maps and French maps.
Has anyone ever put together a list of "traditional" mapping colours for all the major powers? I mean, everyone knows "red" (actually pink) for the UK, blue typically for France... I've seen yellow occasionally for the German Empire, and read that green was preferred in Russian cartography for both the Russian Empire and for the USSR... others, there seems to be a great deal of variation...
I tried around 9 or 10 years ago, but gave up after it gave me too much of a headache, and didn't have enough countries for my purposes.
I think the issue is that there really wasn't the same sense of "traditional mapping colors" as we on this site understand them. Hell, that's even the case in the modern day. Actual maps abide by the rule of four and cycle between four colors for all the countries in the world.
You wouldn't happen to still have the results of your research, would you?
Hmm... maybe I'm missing something, but the geography here seems to not add up (there's a Lake Ukerewe instead of a Ukerewe island and Mount Kilimanjaro isn't by Lake Victoria), and combined with the fact that there's a Neo Arusha and a domed fortress, I'm guessing this isn't on Earth? Perhaps a Martian colony sometime in the far future? Either way, this is a really fun and creative map.
I'm a little depressed right now, so I tried to make a non-dystopian map for a change.
Abiding by the "four-colour theorem" is a bit easier now, that there aren't so many colonies, territories, protectorate, vassals, etc anymore... seems like in the old historical maps that I've seen, five or six is more typical...
I don't think the graphic is trying to place these landmarks at their exact location.
Oh wait, now that you mention that, I realize I was looking at the map from the wrong angle.
NoYou wouldn't happen to still have the results of your research, would you?
, I abandoned that project when I discovered RCS, I did experiment a bit making my own TACOS derived scheme using some thoughts from the old one. But I've restarted the project from scratch so many times I don't remember what originally came from it and what did not.Or an old-fashioned history book, like something you'd find in HG Well's "History of the World"
Perhaps this is inspired by the current war in the Ukraine, but I will note that grit and determination can only get you so far when you're outnumbered something like a hundred to one.
Sorry for being so late, but what's the POD for this map?View attachment 741725
ask and you shall recieve. most of them seem pretty clearly named IMO but let me know if you have any questions. Ilha Oeste and Ilha Holandesa mean "west island" and "dutch island" respectively, and date back to their charting and conquest from the dutch, respectively. If I had to pick a biggest city I would go with Porto De Santo and for a capital: Lago John I suppose at the time of the prior map it Lago John would've been under siege though.
not super relevant but here's TTL's Portuguese empire. might give them a bit more in west Africa or smomalia but it might be prudent in the labrador verse.
Been a while since I thought of the project, but no iberian union with a touch of England screw are the main things I have. Portugal otl did have a colony in labrador, but the english rolled up and did their thing. Perhaps Portugal pursues france as an ally instead of England so spain can't dominate them
