Right, right. I'll see if I can get a ball rolling here.
How should we go about patching the worlda, then? I figure individually people will probably be able to point out some areas worth looking at and suggest some smaller patches - as it is I reckon a lot of patches are floating about, but they don't seem to be used consistently. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but it feels as if a lot of the worldas used (not getting into, say, the long list of historical basemaps) have a bunch of newer and older patches mashed together.
I'd reckon more or less all of you have been working on this for longer than I have, so no doubt there's plenty of issues like what the border of the map projection should look like (two different examples seem pretty common, with two different Antarcticas) that have been discussed ages ago. This map has been floating around on this site for a hell of a long time, and while people have been diligently working on it all that time no one person has ever had much of a gods-eye-view of it all. That is to say, it's a really big project with a huge list of subtle decisions to make in the positioning of lakes, the projection, the borders and the coastlines, the way they _change over time_, I mean, yeesh.*
I've got a sorta-patched map I've worked on, sent it to Beedok a while back. I'll stick it here, but I'd be interested to know what the rest of you think about this in general. Feel free to post any patches or other useful stuff you have!
(& without latitude and longitude)