The VT-BAM project

[Chilneun]

I have an issue that needs to be brought up concerning China. Unfortunately, the 6 eastern coastal provinces seem to be off, and they will need to be looked at. In the image, I have taken an upscaled image of the 8k-BAM and overlayed it on top of the VT. You can see that everything besides these 6 look great, but that the 6 are incorrect.

A little tip to get the correct provinces
Use gadm or even better, osm data and do some calculations, rasterize the data in qgis

 

[Raazossaku]

So I've started working on fixing the provinces on my own by tracing and cross-referencing, simply because I wanted to be able to use the base map for China for my own personal projects. I joined because I wanted to search for the current status of VT-BAM on China, and then was actually one of the people who noticed the discrepancy and brought this up with finn in the first place on Discord.

I understand if it seems a bit odd to come out of nowhere and just post a map on a project I wasn't involved in, so feel free to check the quality of this with as much scrutiny as is appropriate. I tried my hand at the smaller subdivisions for Shandong (and starting in Jiangsu) as well just to confirm my process and that everything lined up. If everything seems good, then I'm happy to continue work on the rest of China if that's alright, starting with Shanghai, Zhejiang and Fujian next, while also completing the province borders for the rest of Northern China.

 

[Generaloberst Lizardon]

Nationalist era Nine Northeast Provinces plus Rehe Province. Circa 1946.

 

[Generaloberst Lizardon]

East Hebei Autonomous (Anti-Communist) Government

 

[Generaloberst Lizardon]

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East Hebei Autonomous (Anti-Communist) Government

With districts, based on this map

 

[Generaloberst Lizardon]

Japanese client states in China before the 2nd Sino-Japanese War (Manchukuo, Mengjiang, and East Hebei)

 

[Raazossaku]

1st, 2nd, and 3rd level subdivisions of Lower Yangtze (Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang)

 

[erictom333]

Anyone got East Africa?

 

[HillbillyJake]

I’ll be working with Finn to make some Adams-Onis patches for this here pretty soon

 

[finnnosam]

California's counties over time. some of the years that I exported didn't seem to have any actual differences from the previous version, so I skipped those ones. The last one isn't exactly the same as the current modern day California map for the VT-BAM, however the differences are small, and it is intended to show the same borders.

 

[yee]

When is the country border map with country colors going to be added? 😂

 

[yee]

Hehe boi, it’s 2022….

 

[jefe]

Heilongjiang Province

 

[jefe]

Jilin Province

 

[jefe]

Republic of Buryatia

 

[jefe]

Irkutsk Oblast

 

[jefe]

Mongol Uls

 

[Iustinus Tempus]

Hey @jefe , I have been in the process of getting VT-Bam up to date and noticed this issue when adding in your Chinese provinces, could you check over the Russian-Chinese border and improve it for me?

 

[jefe]

@Iustinus Tempus I forgot I updated Primorskiy Krai so this should fix it

 

[Generaloberst Lizardon]

Counties of Rehe Province, circa 1948