Base Maps from 550 BC to Modern Day, all in UCS!

[Semmi]

Great work Iori. Here's a page that might interest you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_by_area

I don't think it would be a bad idea to include all of them.

[Iori]

Originally Posted by Semmi

Great work Iori. Here's a page that might interest you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_by_area

I don't think it would be a bad idea to include all of them.

Danke.

I do intend to add the rest of the major lakes, or atleast the big Canadian ones, lakes Vänern & Vättern and lake Tchad.

[Semmi]

Originally Posted by Iori

Danke.

I do intend to add the rest of the major lakes, or atleast the big Canadian ones, lakes Vänern & Vättern and lake Tchad.

Np. Best of luck. It does appear that New Caledonia is a tad bit too large, though.

Also, does anyone have any maps of the Polish Border Strip that Germany annexed in WW1? I can't seem to find anything other than:
http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/lib...urces/1916.png
Which is too undetailed.

[Romul]

Originally Posted by Semmi

Np. Best of luck. It does appear that New Caledonia is a tad bit too large, though.

Also, does anyone have any maps of the Polish Border Strip that Germany annexed in WW1? I can't seem to find anything other than:
http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/lib...urces/1916.png
Which is too undetailed.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...%C3%B3rski.PNG

[Iori]

The Northern Canadian Lakes are proving sort of difficult to actually do, so I'm looking for opinions on what I've managed to do;

[Romul]

Originally Posted by Semmi

Also, does anyone have any maps of the Polish Border Strip that Germany annexed in WW1? I can't seem to find anything other than:
http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/lib...urces/1916.png
Which is too undetailed.

Routledge - The Routledge Atlas of the First World War:

[Morgan Hauser]

Originally Posted by Iori

I do intend to add the rest of the major lakes, or atleast the big Canadian ones, lakes Vänern & Vättern and lake Tchad.

Lake Van in Turkey and Lake Urmia in Iran would also be nice additions if you're going ahead with those you mentioned above as well. I'm a bit on the fence as to whether it would either help or hinder the map if you also applied this to Finland. That country is so cluttered with lakes and water reservoirs that it'd probably blacken out large parts of at least its southern half.

[Morgan Hauser]

Originally Posted by Iori

The Northern Canadian Lakes are proving sort of difficult to actually do, so I'm looking for opinions on what I've managed to do;

I'd suggest using the borders of the Canadian provinces and territories as reference points:

http://www.canada-maps.org/canada-map.htm

You already detailed them in your map of the world's federations, so there you go.

[Iori]

Originally Posted by Morgan Hauser

Lake Van in Turkey and Lake Urmia in Iran would also be nice additions if you're going ahead with those you mentioned above as well. I'm a bit on the fence as to whether it would either help or hinder the map if you also applied this to Finland. That country is so cluttered with lakes and water reservoirs that it'd probably blacken out large parts of at least its southern half.

I may well add them, I've basically just been adding lakes that are either important/well known or large enough to be noticable.

Originally Posted by Morgan Hauser

I'd suggest using the borders of the Canadian provinces and territories as reference points:

http://www.canada-maps.org/canada-map.htm

You already detailed them in your map of the world's federations, so there you go.

That's actually what I did, the real problem is the diference in size and how some maps are curved and some are'nt.

[Semmi]

Originally Posted by Romul

Routledge - The Routledge Atlas of the First World War:

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Iori

I may well add them, I've basically just been adding lakes that are either important/well known or large enough to be noticable.




That's actually what I did, the real problem is the diference in size and how some maps are curved and some are'nt.

I've also been working on an improved basemap inspired from your work. Try taking one of those huge qbams since they are infinitely more detailed and shrinking it down so that it's the same size as the small basemap. There shouldn't be too much trouble since they are the same projection. Then you can trace rather than guessing the position.

Also, you may notice that on the small basemap almost every small island is hideously misplaced.

[Iori]

Originally Posted by Semmi

I've also been working on an improved basemap inspired from your work. Try taking one of those huge qbams since they are infinitely more detailed and shrinking it down so that it's the same size as the small basemap. There shouldn't be too much trouble since they are the same projection. Then you can trace rather than guessing the position.

Hm, that's a good idea.

Also, you may notice that on the small basemap almost every small island is hideously misplaced.

I've never really noticed to be honest, though that's likely because I don't normally pay attention to the islands outide the Caribbean and the Mozambique Strait.

[Iori]

Alright, I'm not sure now.

The below shows the two different versions of the Northern Great Canadian Lakes.

The first one I did by eye, the second one I did by shrinking the Q-BAM and tracing.

[charl]

The top one is more aesthetically pleasing but I can't speak for its accuracy.

[Evilprodigy]

as a canadian i say that the top one is more accurite

[Augustus Montes]

As I look at my globe that I keep at my desk, I'd say the one on top is closer. But I cannot account for the accuracy of my globe.

[Iori]

Alright, updated UCS map.

Added the outline of the Aral sea as it used to be.
Added Lake Vänern.
Added Lake Vättern.
Added Lake Nipigon.
Added Lake Winnipeg & Lake Manitoba.
Added Lake Athabasca
Added Great Slave Lake.
Added Great Bear Lake.
Added land pixels to the Franz Josef Land archipelago.
Added land pixels for the Taiwan strait islands.
Added a land pixel for Singapore.

[charl]

I think Vättern is a bit too far to the west in relation to Vänern.

[Iori]

Originally Posted by charl

I think Vättern is a bit too far to the west in relation to Vänern.

Perhaps, tis te main problem of the UCS map, it's to small to be hyper-precise (though I do try to be).

I used the below map when I was adding lakes Vättern and Vänern;

[Imperator Frank]

I added lakes in africa. dont know how accurate though.
Edit: added lake in hungary

[Iori]

Lake Albert looks about right.

Lake Turkana and Lake Balaton are to big however, and in the case of Lake Balaton it's really to small to actually be on the map (to be correct size wise it should only be two pixels).