As it stands the M-BAM is a 112.6 megapixel base map used by some people here, it was made and developed on this forum in and since December 2015, M-BAM is an abbrivation for MEGA-Big Associated Map, named by yours truly, one of the original developers of that map 
M-BAM itself is an 3 times upscale of the smaller but more detailed Q-BAM (Qazaq's Big Associated Map), which was developed by Qazaq in 2006 as a base map format and then the project was picked up by volunteers here on AH in 2011, I have also made contributions to it, but nothing as major as to M-BAM.
I recently came across the RQ-BAM thread by @Tanystropheus42 which seeks to remake the Q-BAM ground up to put it in the robinson projection, great idea and M-BAM shouldn't stay behind on this next step in the BAM journey.
For this map which is going to be called Hugh Editable Aliased Robinson Template or HEART for short. I am going to upscale the known robinson projection to 128 megapixel (16000x8000) slightly bigger than the current M-BAM but using nice round numbers in its total size, this map will be centered on the 11th meridian east, this to prevent the map from cutting of part of Siberia and Fiji, instead making a nice cut through the Bering strait and St. Lawrence island in a similar fashion to the BAM maps.
HEART is made possible with NASA's 2004 BM map, which using G-Projector can be neatly converted into a 16kx8k Robinson complete with major rivers and national borders, simplifying this massive task to mostly a job of tracing.
Here is the first patch for the Netherlands and Luxembourg:
Like the BAM maps, I am hoping this to be a succesful project, I only just started to any feedback is hugely appriciated at this stage
M-BAM itself is an 3 times upscale of the smaller but more detailed Q-BAM (Qazaq's Big Associated Map), which was developed by Qazaq in 2006 as a base map format and then the project was picked up by volunteers here on AH in 2011, I have also made contributions to it, but nothing as major as to M-BAM.
I recently came across the RQ-BAM thread by @Tanystropheus42 which seeks to remake the Q-BAM ground up to put it in the robinson projection, great idea and M-BAM shouldn't stay behind on this next step in the BAM journey.
For this map which is going to be called Hugh Editable Aliased Robinson Template or HEART for short. I am going to upscale the known robinson projection to 128 megapixel (16000x8000) slightly bigger than the current M-BAM but using nice round numbers in its total size, this map will be centered on the 11th meridian east, this to prevent the map from cutting of part of Siberia and Fiji, instead making a nice cut through the Bering strait and St. Lawrence island in a similar fashion to the BAM maps.
HEART is made possible with NASA's 2004 BM map, which using G-Projector can be neatly converted into a 16kx8k Robinson complete with major rivers and national borders, simplifying this massive task to mostly a job of tracing.
Here is the first patch for the Netherlands and Luxembourg:
Like the BAM maps, I am hoping this to be a succesful project, I only just started to any feedback is hugely appriciated at this stage
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