Altered Maps 4: Partitioning Eastern Europe Like In The Good Old Days

[Dachs]

He got it off of fc's territorial subdivision map so he could have more or less exact US state borders, and didn't change anything else on the map.

 

[Tee Kay]

The Korean Diaspora

 

[RedRalph]

Nice to see Ireland is in a religious category along with such wonderful places as Saudi Arabia and Poland...

 

[Chieftess]

Whoa...

I used to do something like this. One day I chuck all the maps into the bin.

I used to do something like that when I was younger (granted, paint programs weren't as advanced - MSPaint in like 1986, and I used pencil and paper), but I never got to that level of detail. The topography, maybe, but it looked ugly, and it still does when I make a map. I've been looking for map making tools, but haven't found much.

Something about that map grates me geologically. I can't really put my finger on it, possibly it is the mountain pattern, but something about it leaps out at me and shouts fake.

My first thought was, "Hey! That looks like Antartica! ...with a blade at the bottom".

Anyway, this is a (resized) map of a world that I was making for some civ-type story years back. I've tried doing relief maps without much success.

(Can you spot the "Ring of Fire" in this map? I should probably redo the mountains, though, or at least add some to the east coast of that SW continent - which would probably make it more of a desert, which isn't what I wanted.)

 

[Weik]

Historical borders of Europe

 

[Winner]

Interesting, I'd say the Caucasus mountains are a natural border in the south (of Russia).

 

[choxorn]

Anyway, this is a (resized) map of a world that I was making for some civ-type story years back. I've tried doing relief maps without much success.

(Can you spot the "Ring of Fire" in this map? I should probably redo the mountains, though, or at least add some to the east coast of that SW continent - which would probably make it more of a desert, which isn't what I wanted.)

Is the ring of fire that giant square ocean in the middle?

 

[Chieftess]

Is the ring of fire that giant square ocean in the middle?

Yes. (It's supposed to be more circular, though. )

 

[cardgame]

Yes. (It's supposed to be more circular, though. )

West Coast of the NE continent isn't part of the RoF??

 

[Chieftess]

West Coast of the NE continent isn't part of the RoF??

No, it's that big circle of islands and the two continents in the southern sea.

There's also an island in the shape of a whale, which was completely unintentional.

 

[Masada]

This map is so astonishingly bad, I'm frankly offended. Not only is Srivijaya so terribly wrong, it was not ever a 'subordinate' or whatever the hell the map seems to believe it was of the freaking Chola. Also, WTH is up with mainland Southeast Asia, I could kinda understand believing a freaking Royal Appellation which claimed nominal suzerainty over Srivijaya, but the rest is just plain invention.

In sum: I hate Indian nationalists.

 

[Tee Kay]

^ Still better than this abomination:

 

[Masada]

That was obviously taking the piss -- or at least I hope it was. The other one is I suspect trying to be serious. Grrr.

 

[Tee Kay]

Well, it seemed someone modified the original map so that the Cholas end up with a band of vassals from Bengal to Vietnam (you can see that part of the name Cambhoja is painted over). Still, even without that it's still quite ridiculous.

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

You can see they only extended the purple over Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam because that area doesn't have the fade around the edges. Srivijaya and the rest with the blurry edges were marked as vassals on the original map.

 

[Tee Kay]

Here's another one:

 

[Dachs]

That's an interesting position for the Chalukya, there. I don't think I've ever seen them in the same place on any given two maps.

 

[Masada]

Well, it seemed someone modified the original map so that the Cholas end up with a band of vassals from Bengal to Vietnam (you can see that part of the name Cambhoja is painted over). Still, even without that it's still quite ridiculous.

Indian nationalists. I rest my case. Also, that second map is out and out ********.

You can see they only extended the purple over Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam because that area doesn't have the fade around the edges. Srivijaya and the rest with the blurry edges were marked as vassals on the original map.

Except that doesn't make it better. Because not only was Srivijaya never a Chola vassal, it didn't even extend as far as they seem to believe it did.

 

[Tee Kay]

That's an interesting position for the Chalukya, there. I don't think I've ever seen them in the same place on any given two maps.

The Chalukyas ruled various parts of India at various times between the 6th to the 12th century and the borders were always indistinct and changing. Same goes for the Pandyans and Cholas.

 

[Tee Kay]