Altered Maps XIV: Cartographical Consistency

[Borachio]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammassalik_wooden_maps

Wow!

That's interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands_stick_chart

 

[Civ'ed]

You forgot Greenland.

Denmark worries

 

[Tee Kay]

 

[Arakhor]

I can safely say that I recognise most of those names, only through EU games.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Spam gifts in Bihar to open CoTs!

 

[Tee Kay]

I actually don't get why there's a CoT in Bihar anyway. And not somewhere like, say, Calicut.

And modern Bihar is India's poorest state. So, irony.

 

[classical_hero]

World maps without New Zealand

This one is just perfect.

 

[gay_Aleks]

I actually don't get why there's a CoT in Bihar anyway. And not somewhere like, say, Calicut.

And modern Bihar is India's poorest state. So, irony.

Probably to get it land-locked so that grubby Europeans first have to take over the coast in order to access it.

 

[Civ'ed]

Probably to get it land-locked so that grubby Europeans first have to take over the coast in order to access it.

Are you implying a player would intentionally create border gore

 

[gay_Aleks]

Well, there is WC. Besides, inheritances almost always result into border gore, be they player or AI. My Prussia game is currently one long, long stretched state going from Estonia to Holland.

Yay for marriage, I guess?

 

[Takhisis]

I can safely say that I recognise most of those names, only through EU games.

Through HRF Keating and Tarquin Hall in my case, but yes, most of those are recognisable.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Would the whole "hereditary governor" mean that it's a constitutional monarchy going down in some Indian states?

 

[Tee Kay]

Would the whole "hereditary governor" mean that it's a constitutional monarchy going down in some Indian states?

Those were the princely states. The scenario imagines if India stays on as a dominion under the British crown and the princes actually has a say in how it's to be done. So their states are preserved and they stay on as hereditary governors, but their roles are now mostly ceremonial.

Some states are amalgamations of several princely states, so the princes take turns acting as governors.

 

[Domen]

Apparently there is a meme (or something) site dedicated to this...

Denmark da best:

Denmark, A Fish Eating the Slime Off of a Filthy, Fat Batman Who Is Talking to an Old Ghost

 

[Tee Kay]

Map of India According to Stereotypes (in the style of Yanko Tsvetkov)

 

[Lohrenswald]

I actually don't get why there's a CoT in Bihar anyway. And not somewhere like, say, Calicut.

And modern Bihar is India's poorest state. So, irony.

If you compare these to India maps, you see that Bihar is now split in two. The people in southern Bihar had a lot of money from mines, but felt that the nort of Bihar exploited them, so they wanted to secede, in they were allowed to, leaving Bihar a lot poorer.

 

[Takhisis]

Greater Finland, my future kingdom:

Spoiler :

 

[warpus]

Very interesting:


Link to video.

 

[Tee Kay]

Australian states renamed for US states stereotypes

New South Wales/California - most populous state, economic powerhouse, similar climate
Victoria/New York - sophiscated, diverse, very liberal
Queensland/Florida - sun and sea, tourist destination, crazy people
Western Australia/Texas - mineral wealth, conservative, secessionist
South Australia/Ohio - rust belt, politically ambiguous
Tasmania/Rhode Island - small and irrelevant
Northern Territory/Alaska - isolated, mineral wealth, extreme weather (hot/cold), large indigenous population

 

[warpus]

btw what is Greece doing in eastern India? What sort of stereotype is that?