This is excellent - great work! The old one was good, but I have to admit that I didn't like looking at places like Russia where its sorta just blobs with only 2 or 3 height levels. This one looks much much much better.
The Russian censuses have been showing the Russian proportion of the population declining in several republics. I know there are some in the ethnic minority diaspora who make claims about their numbers being way higher but they generally tend to be the same people who think there's a mass support for independence in, say, Bashkortostan. Not reliable.
I mean who would have thought in 1985 Kazakstan or Azerbaijan would be independent in about 5 years right? People can be very unreliable, especially when the oppression falls apart
I was gonna reply to this with "well yeah but Azerbaijan was 80%+ Azeri in '89 so it can't really be compared to the modern minority republics" but then I checked and apparently the Kazakh SSR was only 40% Kazakh to 38% Russian in the 1989 census, so who knows! For comparison: according to the 2021 census Bashkortostan is 33% Bashkir, 25% Tatar and 38% Russian. Tatarstan is 54% Tatar.I mean who would have thought in 1985 Kazakstan or Azerbaijan would be independent in about 5 years right? People can be very unreliable, especially when the oppression falls apart
There are at least arcgis files from sources like Nasa available to work with.
It's also important to remember Urban centers always tend to muddle a lot of population and ethnicity against population density. That's why in China, Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Inner Mongolia especially, several counties have Han Chinese majorities, without occupying the vast majority of the land. That may be less of the case in Russia because those areas have way more habitable outskirts areas, but the same concept may still apply
Of course there is no way of knowing this at the moment considering the regimes nature but non-russian minorities in minority republics are accusing the goverment of using subtle counting tricks to hide the russian population decline, methods like counting the students when at school and classifying them all as russians while their parents are from another nationality so that they can disguise the huge drops in numbers of young russian children at those age groups, i know conditions are different but us census recorded a huge drop of non-hispanic white population from 64% to 58% in just 10 years and numbers show that in 2020 only 50 percent of the under 15 population is non-hispanic whites, these etnic declines started being noticed slowly with numbers of young children then turn into an avalanche as the older ones get old and die and not replaced
The projection is not perfect because no matter how hard I tried there were always misaligned areas. The original projection is perfect, but Q-BAM happens to be off in all sorts of places, so the manual adjustment was a necessary step. However this is not perfect because it's basically impossible to make it perfect, so there will be a lot of areas where the alignment is off.
Okay.incl Omsk, Tomsk, and Novosibirsk Oblasts and Snake Island
Okay, this is the post that is the key to solving all of this. Literally just paste this onto the QBAM. Here, I've done it for you.
I would also like to point out that I am currently in the process of further improving the updated China patches I have already put out, because the outer provinces (Xizang, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia Inner Mongolia, and the provinces in Manchuria) I produced still need some work. Inner Mongolia and the Manchurian provinces are the only ones still needing improvement so expect the "2.1" PRC patch the be here soon.
I have a working one for both 1900 and 1890, so I'll get onto some more when I have an opportunity later today!
