Altered Maps XVI: Gerardus Mercator Must Die

[Traitorfish]

Old threads:

Altered Maps
Altered Maps 2: Uber-Yugoslavia FTW
Altered Maps 3: The rise of the Basque Empire!
Altered Maps 4: Partitioning Eastern Europe Like In The Good Old Days
Altered Maps V: The Molotov-Threadentropp Pact
Altered Maps VI: Xorda Gene Bombs.. going from Earth to Mobius
Altered Maps VII: Making the World a Better Place
Altered Maps VIII: World borders just got garbage-dayed
Altered Maps IX:: Playing Musical Chairs with the Landmasses
Altered Maps X:Ten Time's a Altered Map
Altered maps XI: Towards a New Decade!
Altered Maps XII: Not to Scale
Altered Maps ΙΓ': To make a map larger than what it maps
Altered Maps XIV: Cartographical Consistency
Altered Maps 15


Have an abomination.



Simple bands work out better than crosses for the most part, but, jeez, not for poor old Poland. Czechia turned out suspiciously well, almost as if they were planning for it.

 

[Arakhor]

That's quite clever.

 

[Kyriakos]

Maintaining the balkans of power.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Seems like what level of administrative unit is used in traitor's map is inconsistent
In Poland the highest level is used, but not in Germany

 

[Takhisis]

I would invert the colours in the Fyromic flag.

 

[crabapple]

Traitorfish, I see that Åland, the island between Finland and Sweden, you put as belonging to Sweden, when we actually belong to Finland, just saying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Åland_Islands

 

[JohannaK]

I want to see a world map like that.

 

[Traitorfish]

Seems like what level of administrative unit is used in traitor's map is inconsistent
In Poland the highest level is used, but not in Germany

I suspect that the map-maker just used a pre-existing map that was itself somewhat arbitrary; a lot of the countries are divided in more detail that would be necessary to make a decent go of their flag.

Traitorfish, I see that Åland, the island between Finland and Sweden, you put as belonging to Sweden, when we actually belong to Finland, just saying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Åland_Islands

Not mine, for the record, pilfered from reddit via tumblr.

 

[metatron]

Simple bands work out better than crosses for the most part, but, jeez, not for poor old Poland.

I want to give Denmark and Scotland a hug.

I see that Åland,

Also: Bornholm and Jersey.

In Poland the highest level is used, but not in Germany

I'm not sure what the German things are supposed to be. Like, they are parts of states, sure, but i'm tilting my head considering the possibility that they're made up.^^

 

[Arakhor]

The Channel Islands don't have a flag as they're a UK dependency (but not part of the UK), so basically they probably need red and yellow (reminiscent of the Three Lions), due to the Queen's status as Duke of Normandy over there.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hilarious

 

[Hrothbern]

Hilarious

That's the wrong direction
or is Mecca meanwhile in the US ?

 

[Arakhor]

Most of Europe as a praying man is quite clever, but the British Isles as a moon and star doesn't fit at all.

 

[Kyriakos]

Most of Europe as a praying man is quite clever, but the British Isles as a moon and star doesn't fit at all.

Your irrational hatred of pareidolia is already known

 

[Arakhor]

That's a really ugly chicken cosplaying as a novelty church.

 

[metatron]

The Channel Islands don't have a flag as they're a UK dependency (but not part of the UK), so basically they probably need red and yellow (reminiscent of the Three Lions), due to the Queen's status as Duke of Normandy over there.

Jersey is part of France in the map is what i'm saying.
I'm not asking for a "correct" color here. Like, the same as Guernsey would be fine in any case.

 

[Arakhor]

Jersey is part of France in the map is what i'm saying.
I'm not asking for a "correct" color here. Like, the same as Guernsey would be fine in any case.

Oh, well, yes. I thought that went without saying.

 

[Hrothbern]

That's a really ugly chicken cosplaying as a novelty church.

That's all a matter of perception

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Your irrational hatred of pareidolia is already known

Yikes!

If that's a Catholic church, whatever's in the incense must be really strong stuff.

 

[Traitorfish]

I'm not sure what the German things are supposed to be. Like, they are parts of states, sure, but i'm tilting my head considering the possibility that they're made up.^^

A bit of Wiki-diving suggests they're probably the Regierungsbezirk, which are apparently an administrative division used by the federal government? An odd choice, given that they've used states or equivalents in other federal countries. (In fact, in Bosnia & Herzegovina, they've done it twice over: they've distinguished Republic Srpska and the Cantons of the Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina.)

They seem to have done something similar with Spain, using the provinces instead of the autonomous communities, but Spain is emphatically (if sometimes unconvincingly) non-federal, which can hardly be said for Germany.