WIP Map Thread
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A united Arabia? What a truly unique idea that has never been done before. You random Caliphates just sort of shoved into the Middle East by people whop have no idea what to do there by lazy people making maps. Revolutionary, good sir, revolutionary.
Post russia (please send critisisims):
No one really expected the Scandenavian Union (Orange) to expand into Russia and no one expected Russia itself (red) to go into exile. America (Green) and China's (purple) colonisation was expected and Japan's (Olive) small bit of colonisation was the logical result of the Japan and Russia's border conflict. The space between the four powers was created as a buffer state.
No one really expected the Scandenavian Union (Orange) to expand into Russia and no one expected Russia itself (red) to go into exile. America (Green) and China's (purple) colonisation was expected and Japan's (Olive) small bit of colonisation was the logical result of the Japan and Russia's border conflict. The space between the four powers was created as a buffer state.
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Hey that's really unnecessary. Don't disparage people showing off their progress. It's a well made map and we don't know if there's a timeline or not, so to assume it's a 'random caliphate' born from laziness and ignorance is unfair and uncalled for.
this took a week and im nowhere near done painting the map in
im making it using the Europa Universalis 4 projection, i suppose this could count as an ideal world map of mine, (even tho my actual ideal world would be a map of democratic federated municipalities spanning the globe but that's difficult..) no idea what im going to do with the americas and oceania yet, id like to have them be purely native but im not sure how to justify that in timeline, maybe i might make each ingame area in the americas a colonial nation??? this whole timeline sprung from messing about in paint.net making a pretty near east and north africa and just kind spiraled outwardsThank you!
And the timeline is very much being worked on. It's generally based on the idea that the Sykes-Picot Agreement never occurred, Britain throwing all of it's weight behind a unified Arab state (with spheres of influences for the British and a few 99-year leases on naval bases and such). As time goes on the Caliphate will fall into a civil war but reemerge as constitutional monarchy (with a lot of power coming from the military as well).
Every time someone is a jerk on AH.com a baby sealion cries.
Please don't make baby sealions cry.
I can't seem to find any polar projection maps which include ASB-levels of sea level rise. So here's my WIP. Coastlines are a total mess and the southern hemisphere is nowhere in sight. It's pretty fun, though.
Basemap is from @Trovador and in part inspired by a post from @mad_bad_rabbit
EDIT: I got your name wrong, @Mad Bad Rabbit . Sorry. This is in part inspired by your post here:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/map-thread-xvii.426654/page-383#post-16976787
Basemap is from @Trovador and in part inspired by a post from @mad_bad_rabbit
EDIT: I got your name wrong, @Mad Bad Rabbit . Sorry. This is in part inspired by your post here:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/map-thread-xvii.426654/page-383#post-16976787
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Straight ≠ Rational.
If it's not on ethnic lines then geography with the occasional straight line in flat areas (Great Plains, Eurasian Steppe, Sahara Desert etc.) should make sense. Also due to the projection of the WorldA map, vertical straight lines wouldn't be straight in real life, they've got to be on an angle dependent on where you're drawing it. The closer to the centre of the map the more vertical the line, as you get to the ends of the map they've got to be more diagonal.
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Oh, I see, could you show me some rational borders. Also is there a grid for this map?
In addition to what I said earlier, if it isn't based on ethnicity, it'll probably be based on the population of certain areas. So administrative divisions will be divided based on that. If you're using software that can handle layers and selections like GIMP, then you can set up a workspace for your WorldA to compare things.
Latitude and Longitude
Terrain, Rivers and Mountains etc.
Borders, use the straight internal borders to take a guess at the angle of the diagonal to represent an approximate 'straight' border.
As a general rule for me a 2:1 pixel ratio usually works. So that's 2 pixels up and 1 pixel across.
I wouldn't suggest using Inkscape for WorldA maps. It's more designed for higher quality vector maps.
For GIMP WorldAs or Inkscape?
I don't know if there are any GIMP WorldA tutorials out there as I kind of just picked it up and figured it out myself.
If you mean for Inkscape, UpvoteAnthology's tutorial is about as comprehensive as anyone needs - once you master that you can pretty much figure everything else out yourself.
EDIT: Before we derail the thread further, go and check out this thread for further advice or just PM me