The VT-BAM project

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VT45

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So I've been working a lot in QGIS recently, and I figured I shouldn't be the only one to benefit from the work I'm doing in there. So I'm please to announce the beginning of the V-BAM project. What I will present in this thread is a series of maps at the resolution of 1 pixel for every 30 seconds (or 180 pixels per degree of latitude/longitude). I'll be starting with the USA and moving out from there. I will also present this data in a series of projections, including:

Plate caree/equirectangular:
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Robinson:
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Mollweide:
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and Winkel-Trippel:
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I'll be proceeding first with the USA and then probably moving onto Canada, but if you have any requests, please feel free to post it.
 

VT45

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I might add in municipalities in places where they might be useful. However, at first I'll stick with second-order administrative divisions.
 
Frank

Frank

VT45 said:
I might add in municipalities in places where they might be useful. However, at first I'll stick with second-order administrative divisions.
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If you give me an exported map from QGIS, I would like to help you in tracing over them (I also have paint.net). I would like to draw dutch and german municipalities.

If there is a standard rule in drawing this map, it would be useful.
 

VT45

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I actually just uploaded some more images to work with in case work's a little slow today. If you want to help that'd be awesome. All I need right now is to have all the counties outlined and filled in and shrunk to the size I have put on the images. That'd be a big help. Link is here.
 
Frank

Frank

VT45 said:
I actually just uploaded some more images to work with in case work's a little slow today. If you want to help that'd be awesome. All I need right now is to have all the counties outlined and filled in and shrunk to the size I have put on the images. That'd be a big help. Link is here.
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Cool, but I believe that it should be more simple to do a map per time, since doing four in the same time is really slow.

For example, let's start doing equirectangular, and then the other ones, the work would be faster.
 

VT45

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We could do, yeah. If you wanna do that, awesome. You can outline Pennsylvania like that and I'll work on georeferencing New Jersey tonight.
 
Valdore Javorsky

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Do we really have to start in the US? We already have a County-BAM and countless other North America-BAMs.
I think it would be better to start somewhere else like Europe or Asia
 

VT45

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1. I thought the M-BAM was finished.
2. What's wrong with V-BAM? It fits the trend. We started with the Q-BAM, the M-BAM, and now the V-BAM.
3. I live in the US, so sorry if this seems a bit Amerocentric. If you have a request for a country, or region, please tell me and I'll do it.
 

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VT45 said:
1. I thought the M-BAM was finished.
2. What's wrong with V-BAM? It fits the trend. We started with the Q-BAM, the M-BAM, and now the V-BAM.
3. I live in the US, so sorry if this seems a bit Amerocentric. If you have a request for a country, or region, please tell me and I'll do it.
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DEUTSCHLAND
 
hadaril

hadaril

VT45 said:
1. I thought the M-BAM was finished.
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Still have a lot of 2nd & 3rd level divisions to go

VT45 said:
2. What's wrong with V-BAM? It fits the trend. We started with the Q-BAM, the M-BAM, and now the V-BAM.
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How about all the effort that @Valdore Javorsky has put into his V-BAM map, which (if I do say so myself) is amazing.

Also, again, this project is absolutely insane.
1. This will take 5 years to finish at minimum; I'm pretty sure the M-BAM project was started about four years ago (I know I was watching it's progress when I was in 10th grade, which was three years ago).
2. A map this size is, in many regards, unsuitable for anything larger than displaying a single nation. At this size, a world map would be annoying to look at (given the scrolling you would have to do to even get from Washington DC to panama).
3. Countries will be screen-filling blobs at this size. Again, it's insane to do anything bigger than a nation map with this, and even those, as @Valdore Javorsky has shown with his Großdeutschland maps, will be ginormous.

So, if you really want to go through with this, I'd suggest:
- Renaming it to "T-Bam",
- Focusing on making it a regional map; basically, try and finish one region at a time (say, east coast USA), so that certain chunks can be used by those who want to do a highlight of that specific area on their projects; again, like Valdore is doing with his/her (??) Germany maps.

I wish you the best of luck.

May the cartography gods have mercy on your soul.
 
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