Communist Wizard's Atlas of European History
I recently made a base map of Europe with borders only one pixel thick borders, and the same for rivers. And coastlines. It was in Mercator projection, but it's also a small continent so the only distortion is in the north, which is of little importance outside of Russia's Artic ports. The uses of such a one pixel map are many. It is designed for easy redrawing, and it is easier to draw one pixel borders with the pencil tool than thicker borders with the brush tool. Also, thick borders routinely look ugly and when a border is complicated can turn the borders into a horrendous blotch. Besides that, it is often hard to gauge what thickness are the borders of the original map.
Also, to me, it is often harder to draw borders on a non-Mercator map.
Thus, I am often dissastisfied with the European base map used by others. And so I made this base map by cutting down it's thick national borders into the mangeable one pixel borders you see now.
As a more unfortunate result, the borders of modern states are usually slightly more linear than the borders I make, though not always.
Also, unlike some other maps these maps will be easy to color in with the paintbucket tool.
In any case, I will be posting a succession of maps, typically with a small explanation.
Maps will typically have red borders with blue or ice blue being internal borders. A map may or not have colors. Most of the time, the map will use the recognisable UCS. However, sometimes I will switch around. And of course, specialty maps (war, textbook style, religions, etc.) may be done. It is fun for me to make maps.
I hope to provide a resource to students, teachers, alternate historical map makers, and others.
Maps will be coming shortly.
FILES: I will typically do things like this.
Europe2pixel[COLOR OF BORDERS][TIME][SPECIALTY STATUS - if applicable]
The reason for thiese maps is easy editing with the pencil tool, unlike the other bigger European map.