Not only was it never finished, it's not really that accurate.Hey, has anyone ever finished the topographic map: http://i.imgur.com/UykWArb.png
Well we need to pull together a group to finish it all. That'd be helpful for alot of people if it were completed accuratelyNot only was it never finished, it's not really that accurate.
Are we ever going to finish this as well? Or is this also one of those things where we finished it on another threadI put it in the list
____________________BAM HISTORICAL MAPS LIST____________________
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20,000 BC: Planned - N/A
4000 BC: WIP-Status - N/A
1350 BC: Planned - N/A
550 BC: Planned - N/A
500 BC: Planned - N/A
323 BC: Planned - N/A
0 AD: Planned - N/A
117: Finised - http://i.imgur.com/fpbF4tp.png
475: Planned - N/A
632: Planned - N/A
635: Planned - N/A
717: Planned - N/A
814: Finished - http://i.imgur.com/gLn68B6.png
843: Planned - N/A
1000: Planned - N/A
1066: Planned - N/A
1115: Planned - N/A
1279: Planned - N/A
1328: Planned - N/A
1400: Unfinised - N/A
1492: Finised - http://i.imgur.com/9uFkJ.png
1500: Planned - N/A
1560: Planned - N/A
1618: Planned - N/A
1683: Planned - N/A
1713: Planned - N/A
1748: Unknown - N/A
1772: Planned - N/A
1776: Planned - N/A
1789: Finised - http://i.imgur.com/LDqH0ds.png
1793: Planned - N/A
1799: Planned - N/A
1803: Planned - N/A
1807: Unfinised - http://i.imgur.com/sbYuRvm.png
1812: Finised - http://i.imgur.com/ZJnpW7k.png
1815: Finised - http://goo.gl/Mi7zc7
1848: Planned - N/A
1856: Incomplete - N/A
1861: Planned - N/A
1866: Planned - N/A
1871: Planned - N/A
1885: Unfinised - http://i.imgur.com/vQlmQbV.png
1900: Planned - N/A
1914: Finised - http://savepic.org/2446257.png
1918: Finised - http://i.imgur.com/diGsMqh.png
1919: Planned - N/A
1938: Finised - http://savepic.org/2427825.png
1939: Planned - N/A
1941: Planned - N/A
1940: Planned - N/A
1942: Finised - http://i.imgur.com/cueg8W6.png
1945: Unfinised - N/A
1946: Unfinised - http://i.imgur.com/tKzMjDi.png
1948: Unfinised - N/A
1960: Planned - N/A
1962: Incorrect - http://savepic.org/3046851.png
1989: Planned - N/A
1992: Finised - http://i.imgur.com/C2zvi.png
Current: Finised - http://i.imgur.com/UuUQ4PY.png
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Climate-Map: Planned - N/A
Habited arae's: Planned - N/A
Languistic: WIP-status - N/A
Religious: WIP-Status - N/A
Flags: Fininshed - http://i.imgur.com/KgDJSj1.png
Topografical: WIP-status - http://i.imgur.com/RYVSvrJ.png
Night Sky: Planned - N/A
The Moon: Planned - N/A
The Moon Terraformed: Planned - N/A
Mars: Planned - N/A
Mars Terraformed: Finised - http://i.imgur.com/qQ9oFJw.png
Venus: Planned - N/A
Venus Terraformed: Planned - N/A
The Sun: Planned - N/A
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[YEAR]: [STATUS] - [LINK] (if no link type N/A)
Status Options:
- Planned = Planned, will be made at some point, still very uncertain status.
- WIP-Status = Work In Progress, this map is currently under construction.
- Unfinised = Unfinished, those maps were never finished or were just to inaccurate for use.
- Finised = Completed, map is fully done and in perfect state for use, status all maps must accomplish in the end.
- Incomplete = Was finished but only contains a few continents insteed of the entire world.
- Incorrect = Map is fully completed, but is not historical correct.
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It would be good already to change poorly made maps when there is a more accurate, to say the least, equivalent avaible.Are we ever going to finish this as well? Or is this also one of those things where we finished it on another thread
Are we ever going to finish this as well? Or is this also one of those things where we finished it on another thread
Don't : there's serious problems in several regions, at the point it's simply easier to redo everything litterally from scratch. I can testify for this for ancient and medieval maps (but contemporary french subdivisions are really botchered too), as well as @Alex Richards as he's currently re-working Chinese rivers.Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
I noticed that myself with the worlda US states a while ago and did a patch for it. I suspect the problem is that the QBAM just enlarged straight from the worlda.
It isn't. QBAM and Worlda are definitely different projections from each other. There are at least three different versions of Worlda floating around. Two correspond to no standard projection; the third is Kavraiskiy-7, centred on 10° east, and with higher latitudes truncated at around 85°.
Which one's the latter?
I'm not sure I understand the question.
Note that the Worlda variants were never labelled as such. Once I had ascertained that the Worlda label had been applied to multiple projections with no clear indication of which was which, I stopped tracking it, as it was no longer relevant to my interests (being too inconsistently used). Note that these unknown/hybrid versions (Worlda and QBAM) do not match either each other or any of the common standard map projections seen in wikipedia and other map projection databanks.
- MBAM: QBAM, with all distances tripled.
- QBAM: Some weird hybrid K7/Robinson, with noticeable longitudinal distortion, nominally centred on 10° east, possibly with truncated polar regions (unable to verify truncation).
- Worlda variant 1: unknown
- Worlda variant 2: unknown
- Worlda variant 3: Kavraiskiy-7, centred on 10° east, and with higher latitudes truncated at around 85°.
I meant if you had a link to which version of the worlda was the latter. Because we did have a couple of major projection overhauls, so depending on the situation we might be talking about a case of 'old projections aren't actually a proper one.'
Gotcha. I didn't keep a record of which Worlda was the truncated K7 one. By that point, I had already decided that my K7 project would use a slightly larger map scale (1250px for the smallest one), in order to be clear which is actually K7, and which is worlda truncated K7 / worlda unknown. "Worlda" as a "brand", has too much of a legacy of inaccurate maps included under the label.
fwiw, I recall that only one of the maps on the a-h wiki was actually of the K7 projection.
Well clearly, when that K7 style worlda map was created, it garnered essentially zero interest. Otherwise, someone would have used it as a basis to update at least one other map. So whatever else was preventing worlda inaccuracies being fixed, it wasn't the lack of an accurate basemap.
It's all very well having a large corpus of existing maps. But if it is a large corpus of existing inaccurate maps, it's not actually all that useful, since the fixup work would require at least as much effort as simply redrawing. But seeing as how that fixup work hasn't happened yet in the years since that fixed basemap was released, odds are good it won't ever happen.
And yes, there's lots of basemap projects going on. But since they are mostly expansions of qbam/mbam, they inherit all the existing inaccuracies of those two. For me, those maps are nice drawings, but not especially accurate.
fwiw, naysayers similar to you already had the effect of killing that nascent project last year. No need to continue the naysaying