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Here's a map I just made of 1914 because there's a lack of historical maps in M-BAM. Let me know of any errors in the map, and I might do first-level subdivisions at a later point.


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Crazy Boris

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Here's a map I just made of 1914 because there's a lack of historical maps in M-BAM. Let me know of any errors in the map, and I might do second-level subdivisions at a later point.

m_bam_map_of_the_world_in_1914_by_autochrome1_dfy4i84-fullview.jpg

Alright, it's a great start, but here's some feedback

-Guatemala wasn't claiming any of Belize yet, and I think the Venezuela-Guyana conflict also reignited later
-The Costa-Rica Panama border was disputed
-The Peru-Ecuador-Colombia border area was a good deal different and much of it was disputed
-Chaco was disputed between Paraguay and Bolivia
-San Marino and Neutral Moresnet are missing
-The Beda Emirate in Yemen was independent at this time
-Fujairah had broken off from Sharjah but not yet joined the Trucial States
-Kuwait's border wasn't defined yet
-Arabia should be split into Anizzah, Hai'l, Nejd, and Najran (and maybe Upper Asir, IIRC)
-The Madha/Nawha exclaves aren't there yet, that region is disputed between Muscat-Oman and the Trucial States, and the Buraimi Oasis is an Omani/Abu Dhabi comdominium
-Darfur is independent, but as a vassal of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
-Aussa and Jimma aren't incorporated into Ethiopia yet
-Hobyo and Majeerteen are seperate from Italian Somaliland
-I think Burundi wasn't incorporated into GEA yet
-Sikkim is seperate from British India, its status was more like that of Bhutan
-Bhutan has a few exclaves in Tibet
-Tibet, Mongolia, and Tuva/Uriankhai are all de facto independent from China
-Sarawak is independent

those are all the things I can see that are missing
 
Alright, it's a great start, but here's some feedback

-Guatemala wasn't claiming any of Belize yet, and I think the Venezuela-Guyana conflict also reignited later
-The Costa-Rica Panama border was disputed
-The Peru-Ecuador-Colombia border area was a good deal different and much of it was disputed
-Chaco was disputed between Paraguay and Bolivia
-San Marino and Neutral Moresnet are missing
-The Beda Emirate in Yemen was independent at this time
-Fujairah had broken off from Sharjah but not yet joined the Trucial States
-Kuwait's border wasn't defined yet
-Arabia should be split into Anizzah, Hai'l, Nejd, and Najran (and maybe Upper Asir, IIRC)
-The Madha/Nawha exclaves aren't there yet, that region is disputed between Muscat-Oman and the Trucial States, and the Buraimi Oasis is an Omani/Abu Dhabi comdominium
-Darfur is independent, but as a vassal of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
-Aussa and Jimma aren't incorporated into Ethiopia yet
-Hobyo and Majeerteen are seperate from Italian Somaliland
-I think Burundi wasn't incorporated into GEA yet
-Sikkim is seperate from British India, its status was more like that of Bhutan
-Bhutan has a few exclaves in Tibet
-Tibet, Mongolia, and Tuva/Uriankhai are all de facto independent from China
-Sarawak is independent

those are all the things I can see that are missing
Thanks for letting me know, I'll get on it. The Guatemala dispute is just apart of the default map.
 
The map has been updated. A lot of your points were addressed, @Crazy Boris, but some of them I had to exclude because I couldn't find enough evidence for them, sorry. I'll work on Arabia and the Ecuador-Peruvian border dispute tomorrow.

Edit: Updated the map again, with the Ecuadorian border dispute and Arabia.
 
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I'm thinking about creating some MBam maps with a focus on late antiquity and the early middle ages in Europe. Anyone interested to collaborate or make maps in the same time period?
 
I made a historical map of 1950 in M-BAM. Let me know if there are any errors in it. (High-quality version of the map is on my Deviant Art page because the file is too big to upload the full thing onto this site directly.)
m_bam_map_of_the_world_on_january_1__1950_by_autochrome1_dg0tzh8-fullview.jpg

It’s very blurry in your upload so I can’t tell, but if I’m seeing right then the border on the Korean peninsula looks like the post-war boundary rather than the 38 parallel.
 
It’s very blurry in your upload so I can’t tell, but if I’m seeing right then the border on the Korean peninsula looks like the post-war boundary rather than the 38 parallel.
It is the 38th parallel, and the reason why it's blurry is because the full-quality version is too big for the site to handle, so the full version has to be on Deviant Art.
 

Crazy Boris

Banned
It is the 38th parallel, and the reason why it's blurry is because the full-quality version is too big for the site to handle, so the full version has to be on Deviant Art.

its blurry there too
you have to select "advanced options" when uploading and choose "original size" for image display

(also West Bank should be park of Jordan)
 
Let me know if there are any errors in it.
  • Alaska & Hawaii are still a territories
  • Netherlands annexed small areas of Germany after WW2 and was only returned in 1963
  • You forgot the Free Territory of Trieste
  • Suez Canal is British
  • Iraq border wrong, forgot neutral zone
  • Kuwait border wrong, forgot neutral zone
  • Oman should be shown as independent of Muscat
  • Gwadar in Pakistan was apart of Muscat
  • The borders in the middle east are very anachronistic, most of it wasn't properly delineated yet
  • All the French ports in India are missing
  • So are the Portuguese san Goa
  • Hawd area in Ethiopia should be British
  • Britain held a port in South Africa
  • Mongolia border hasn't be delineated yet
  • Britain occupied parts of Japan til 1952
  • Hainan should still be apart of Taiwan/ROC
  • Ma Clique owned territory in Sinkiang
  • Viet Minh?
  • Lots and lots of reservoirs that shouldn't exist yet.
  • Aral Sea
That's as far as I can see
 
  • Alaska & Hawaii are still a territories
  • Netherlands annexed small areas of Germany after WW2 and was only returned in 1963
  • You forgot the Free Territory of Trieste
  • Suez Canal is British
  • Iraq border wrong, forgot neutral zone
  • Kuwait border wrong, forgot neutral zone
  • Oman should be shown as independent of Muscat
  • Gwadar in Pakistan was apart of Muscat
  • The borders in the middle east are very anachronistic, most of it wasn't properly delineated yet
  • All the French ports in India are missing
  • So are the Portuguese san Goa
  • Hawd area in Ethiopia should be British
  • Britain held a port in South Africa
  • Mongolia border hasn't be delineated yet
  • Britain occupied parts of Japan til 1952
  • Hainan should still be apart of Taiwan/ROC
  • Ma Clique owned territory in Sinkiang
  • Viet Minh?
  • Lots and lots of reservoirs that shouldn't exist yet.
  • Aral Sea
That's as far as I can see
I've fixed most of the issues you have addressed.
 
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