Altered Maps XII: Not to Scale

[Winner]

And I guess this little back-of-the-envelope drawn map counts as an altered map as well:

You can guess what scenario it depicts

 

[Dachs]

I should scan some of my doodles, too. Not a bad idea.

Nice freehand, too. I usually have accuracy problems with Central European borders unless I draw the major reference rivers (and even then it's not great). Yours is probably better than anything I could do without looking at a map.

 

[warpus]

Birthplace of all MLS players

 

[hoplitejoe]

I well didn't know Gambia is officially "The Gambia".

 

[Winner]

Here's a blank map of Europe with interwar borders. I got frustrated by the apparent lack of good editable historical maps of Europe on the internet, so I cleared one of those used on Wikipedia.

I'd really love to get my hands on a decent, high-res, editable map showing cities, roads, physical features, etc. as well as borders - simply a good atlas-like map. These are evidently not present on the net at all, or they're well-hidden.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, looking at that Romania, what exactly was it trying to achieve by getting into the war?

Was it trying to antagonize Russia or something?

 

[Dachs]

Between the time that that map represents and 1941, Romania lost Transylvania to Hungary (more or less bloodlessly, at Hitler's command) and Bessarabia to the Soviet Union (by force majeure). The Nazi-aligned Romanian government believed that the Germans were a far more serious threat than the USSR was, but only if it went against Berlin's wishes; if on the other hand it hitched its cart to the German horse, the government believed that united Europe would destroy the Soviet Union and that Romania could share in the spoils - including the lost territories in Bessarabia.

 

[Kyriakos]

Thanks

A map about what you said:

 

[Civ'ed]

Thanks

A map about what you said:

If I were part of the Romanian government, that would indeed be the point where I'd say "y'know, maybe we should join the Axis..."

 

[Kyriakos]

I guess. They did lose roughly the same amount of land by order of Hitler, though (to Hungary and Bulgaria). They obviously had the view that it was more likely that the war would be won by the axis, rather than any side the USSR was in, in case it was part of the war and anti-Germany. In the end they would probably had kept more land if they sided with USSR, but that was even less likely due to many factors (how Bessarabia was taken, closeness to Axis powers, unlikely outcome of the war etc)

I don't blame them, considering Greece was (in effect) part of the Allies since it was attacked by Italy, suffered during the war, even repelled the italian invasion, and in the end only got the dodecanese (centered on Rhodes), any of the minor powers were far from likely to earn much by siding with anyone, unless they had already lost land building up to the war.

 

[Winner]

Well, Romania got awfully lot after WW1, considering their only contribution to the Entente war effort was to get themselves speedily defeated and occupied by the Central Powers...

 

[TheLastOne36]

Visualization of geotagged tweets from various places:

North America

Europe

and now for cities:

Spoiler :

Istanbul

New York

Boston

Moscow

Puerto Rico

Tokyo

San Francisco

Sao Paulo

Seattle

Seoul

Sydney

Source: http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/photos/...ualization-north-america-photo--61266525.html

 

[Winner]

Every time I see Moscow in some of these maps, it looks like such a tempting, juicy target for a nuclear strike...

Sorry, too much strategy gaming when I was little.

 

[madviking]

It seems that Latvia just tweets a lot.

 

[Kyriakos]

From the site Yeekim posted a link to, in the map-guessing thread:

 

[hoplitejoe]

People like to tweet on ferries a lot.

 

[Winner]

From the site Yeekim posted a link to, in the map-guessing thread:

An ideal asteroid impact site...

 

[danjuno]

hah! yes! west virginia doesn't exist anymore!

Note that most of it is disputed territory. You guys obviously can't get enough of us!

 

[really]

People like to tweet on ferries a lot.

I was thinking that too - I guess they have wifi now and people have a few hours to kill.

How 5 Countries Could Become 14

Spoiler :

Edit: I didn't realise the text hadn't followed over: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/29/sunday-review/how-5-countries-could-become-14.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1&

 

[TheLastOne36]

That's an interesting solution to Syria+Iraq.