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[Rac98]

Better late than never, new river patch!
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota rivers are fully done... The Churchill Basin was overwhelming due to the confusion of finding the correct river path in the middle of so many lakes, but I survived. Next step will be finishing Ontario and the Great Lakes Basin I guess.

Also @Tanystropheus42 that missing lake in Alberta was error in my end indeed, but thanks for confirming it; now on other stuff, Boliva technically speaking should be portraided the same way Spain is since altrough it's a regional state all of their 1st level of adm. units are autonomous, and another detail that I actully don't know if it's true or not is I've stumple few days back on this video claming that the Colombian Conflict is still ongoing and that, well, Colombia is not 100% de facto united nowdays...

 

[Sharklord1]

Better late than never, new river patch!
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota rivers are fully done... The Churchill Basin was overwhelming due to the confusion of finding the correct river path in the middle of so many lakes, but I survived. Next step will be finishing Ontario and the Great Lakes Basin I guess.

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Also @Tanystropheus42 that missing lake in Alberta was error in my end indeed, but thanks for confirming it; now on other stuff, Boliva technically speaking should be portraided the same way Spain is since altrough it's a regional state all of their 1st level of adm. units are autonomous, and another detail that I actully don't if it's true or not is I've stumple few days back on this video claming that the Colombian Conflict is still ongoing and that, well, Colombia is not 100% de facto united nowdays...

If you're having trouble with rivers and river basins, Databasins might help:

HydroSHEDS (RIV) - River network (stream lines) at 15s resolution - North America | Data Basin

HydroSHEDS (Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales) provides hydrographic information in a consistent and...

databasin.org

HydroSHEDS (BAS) - Drainage basins (watershed boundaries) at 15s resolution - North America | Data Basin

HydroSHEDS (Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales) provides hydrographic information in a consistent and...

databasin.org

 

[Rac98]

If you're having trouble with rivers and river basins, Databasins might help:

HydroSHEDS (RIV) - River network (stream lines) at 15s resolution - North America | Data Basin

HydroSHEDS (Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales) provides hydrographic information in a consistent and...

databasin.org

HydroSHEDS (BAS) - Drainage basins (watershed boundaries) at 15s resolution - North America | Data Basin

HydroSHEDS (Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales) provides hydrographic information in a consistent and...

databasin.org

Actually these are literally the sources I use as my basis, I still hope their V2 launches before I start doing the Artic Canada and Russia; anyways the thing is that Canada' lakeland is just is really annoying in general

 

[Sharklord1]

Actually these are literally the sources I use as my basis, I still hope their V2 launches before I start doing the Artic Canada and Russia; anyways the thing is that Canada' lakeland is just is really annoying in general

There's going to be a V2?

 

[Rac98]

There's going to be a V2?

Yep, it's been in devlopment for quite a while, with the main feature being an better accuracy overall, specialy on polar regions wich the current version has strugles with (beyond 60° North/South, river misspaths are very common). It was supposed to launch last year, but it didn't, here it's their site talking about it:

HydroSHEDS v2

Refined global river network and catchment delineations from TanDEM-X elevation data

www.hydrosheds.org

 

[Rac98]

Oh boy, hello guys! I said the next thing I would do would be Ontario and while that still holds true, kinda, I forgot that this week is Carnival week, and as a good folião (actually bad because I'm not in the middle of the folia) here we have a partial patch of the rivers (only the biggest ones) in South America already made to celebrate

I didn't want to miss the opportunity of the date, so yeah, also happy New Year of the Dragon too guys.
Back to Canada now...

EDIT: Of course I would forgot to finish a single river there, River Cauca in Colombia to be more accurate, now is corrected

 

[racnes]

Yep, it's been in devlopment for quite a while, with the main feature being an better accuracy overall, specialy on polar regions wich the current version has strugles with (beyond 60° North/South, river misspaths are very common). It was supposed to launch last year, but it didn't, here it's their site talking about it:

HydroSHEDS v2

Refined global river network and catchment delineations from TanDEM-X elevation data

www.hydrosheds.org

will it redraw all rivers-waters? also will you redraw the all rqbam rivers-waters when it come out?

 

[Rac98]

will it redraw all rivers-waters?

Yes and no (supposedly at least), it will "redraw everything" in a sense because it will have better resolution and detail, but it wouldn't (supposedly) change the majority river paths already on the data of v1, not say there's no errors or missing rivers outside the polar regions (desert areas for example have some fails), I expect maybe some corrections of minor tributaries if the case but nothing much crazier beside the polar regions.

also will you redraw the all rqbam rivers-waters when it come out?

I hope it don't reach that point, because jeez I don't know what I would even do if that's case; the v1 is been in widely use for more than a decade by now and I assume it wouldn't have such kind of errors of that magnitude on the main part of the map you know, the stuff from the +60° parallels is know since the inception of this database simple beause of lack quality coverage from these areas at the time, so yeah

 

[...Clear.As.Christal...]

I wish I had this level of dedication. These are all so good!! I just read through all this stuff, and I've learned quite a bit. @Tanystropheus42 should write a book or something.
Anyway uh yeah, this is all so cool!! @Tanystropheus42, @Rac98 , and everyone else who added to this are very impressive, I wish I could be like you. ( :

 

[Tanystropheus42]

Another fortnight, another significant chunk of Canada finished. I can't be sure, as the patches I've been doing lately have rather arbitrary cutoffs around islands or along lines of longitude and for the most part don't follow administrative boundaries, making calculating exact percentages difficult, but If I had to guess, I'd say that I'm about 80% done with Canada. Can't wait to get this finished and behind me.

Again, not much to say really. The only thing I feel the need to point out is that projection distortion is warping parts of the Nunavut-NWT border. The diagonals in particular, while straight on an equirectangular projection, instead have a subtle curve in Robinson, a detail I thought I'd mention before anyone says "those lines aren't straight". Oh, and both google maps and the 8-KBAM show the wrong border, which threw me for a loop for a bit before I noticed that every other source agreed.

Next up, Peru and Ecuador, followed by a rather massive patch that will add the remainder of the Canadian mainland, filling in most of the rest of the NWT and adding Yukon. Yeah, I'm aware that it's a big area, but if you look at it there actually aren't that many fiddly lakes, so it should be doable. After that, a return to South America to finish and mildly tweak Brazil, then Greenland 2.




Patch 109 - Oh, Canada 10 (So. Many. Lakes.);
-Added the rest of the mainland portion of Nunavut
- Added the mainland Northwest Territories east of the 117th Meridian West.
- Added more of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, most notably Victoria Island and Banks Island.

 

[Tanystropheus42]

And just like that another big chunk of South America is done. Back to the Canada grind I suppose (expect the next patch in another fortnight or so).


Patch 110 - Peru & Ecuador;
- Added Peru
- Added Ecuador

 

[Analytical Engine]

A couple of questions:

1) do the ongoing issues in Haiti merit any special markings on this map?
2) given that you are showing the Zapatistas in southern Mexico, is there a reason why the cartels of northern Mexico aren't marked in some way? Is it because they don't claim to be political rebels?

 

[Altaic]

A couple of questions:

1) do the ongoing issues in Haiti merit any special markings on this map?
2) given that you are showing the Zapatistas in southern Mexico, is there a reason why the cartels of northern Mexico aren't marked in some way? Is it because they don't claim to be political rebels?

Well, the conflicts shown in the map are outdated anyways, iirc Tanystropheus said that they will update the conflicts once the physical geography (at least the coastlines) are done.

 

[DudemanTheDude]

And just like that another big chunk of South America is done. Back to the Canada grind I suppose (expect the next patch in another fortnight or so).


Patch 110 - Peru & Ecuador;
- Added Peru
- Added Ecuador

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ECUADORIANS ASSEMBLE

 

[CHKeeley]

Europe, 1/1/1936​

I meant to finish this a long time ago but I've been a lot busier in my personal left and this map got left by the wayside. A few days ago, I picked it back up and manged to get most of the outstanding subdivisions finished. As I realized in the last update, I had to redo German internals to reflect the Gleischaltung and the imposition of Reichsgau borders for administration over the old Weimar provinces. The Saarland is a bit of an odd spot because the Rhineland was still occupied, but Germany had already held the plebiscite and successfully began reincorporating the territory. It was still nominally autonomous under a Gauleiter until mid 1936 though, so I have represented it as an unoccupied but autonomous territory of the Reich. Outstanding countries/regions like the Balkans, Scandinavia, Turkey, and Iceland were improved and I tried my best to retool the USSR. I am still unsatisfied with it, especially the provincial borders around Moscow. I plan on working on an overhaul at some point down the road and doing the entire country showing a number of years, but that will take a while and I figure it is better to release what I have so far now rather than keep everyone waiting. Enjoy, and please let me know if I've made any disastrous mistakes!

Also someone suggested last time that I include the Lithuanian claim on Poland. I personally don't like putting territorial claims on maps since I focus on getting administrative divisions represented, and with both it tends to get too cluttered. I am happy to make a patch to include as an inset though if folks would like that.

 

[Entrerriano]

The Saarland is a bit of an odd spot because the Rhineland was still occupied, but Germany had already held the plebiscite and successfully began reincorporating the territory. It was still nominally autonomous under a Gauleiter until mid 1936 though, so I have represented it as an unoccupied but autonomous territory of the Reich

As far as I'm aware, the Rhineland wasn't occupied by any foreign power by 1936, it was just demilitarized, with the last French soldier having left in 1930. In any case, the Treaty of Versailles prohibited Germany from militarizing the entirety of the left bank of the Rhine (along with a strip of land to the right bank), and the Saarland would fall within the entirety of the left bank.

 

[CHKeeley]

As far as I'm aware, the Rhineland wasn't occupied by any foreign power by 1936, it was just demilitarized, with the last French soldier having left in 1930. In any case, the Treaty of Versailles prohibited Germany from militarizing the entirety of the left bank of the Rhine (along with a strip of land to the right bank), and the Saarland would fall within the entirety of the left bank.

Thanks for the correction - I've fixed the Saarland territory and changed the color of the demilitarized zone to reflect a general red "do-not-cross" line rather than a light French blue similar to an occupation.

 

[OxSpace]

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Europe, 1/1/1936​

Since you are showing the demilitarized zone in the Rhine, I'd recommend also showing the ones in Turkey:

The Thracian Demilitarized Zone wasn't revoked til July 1938.
The Straits Zone wasn't revoked til November 1936.

 

[CHKeeley]

Since you are showing the demilitarized zone in the Rhine, I'd recommend also showing the ones in Turkey:

The Thracian Demilitarized Zone wasn't revoked til July 1938.
The Straits Zone wasn't revoked til November 1936.

Added! Thanks for the recommendation,

 

[Kvasir]

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Also someone suggested last time that I include the Lithuanian claim on Poland. I personally don't like putting territorial claims on maps since I focus on getting administrative divisions represented, and with both it tends to get too cluttered. I am happy to make a patch to include as an inset though if folks would like that.

That was me, I certainly would be happy with a patch.