Finally, a mod that works for me. Marla Singer's mod did not work for me. It also had some negative sides which were passed on to this one by kitten. One such thing is that tech research sequence is imbedded in the mod and techs cannot be chosen.
I realized that I can edit the map and other things in the mod. Yeah! So far I made some corrections to the Russia (former Soviet Union) region. I placed resources correctly and made proper geographic and vegetation changes (one is I opened up the Gulf of Finland to allow Russia to place its biggest port city in its historic location). I opened the Black Sea, made fewer tundra tiles in Siberia and got rid of the forests in the steppe zone, among other things. I also changed the Russians' color to red (brown is lame).
I will also change city names, leaders and colors of most civs to suit my preferences, if it will not crash the mod.
So far, game play is fine. The only problem is that Europeans have no room to expand. Because of that, they all migrate into Siberia and Eurasian plains and plop cities there from all civs in Europe and Asia. For the Russians it is impossible to colonize all the way to the Pacific in time, but they can expect many of those towns to culture-flip to their side sooner or later.
I said this before: I propose to make the Earth map with a bigger Europe and smaller Asia. It shouldn't be hard to do. Just mold the continents like they were clay, squeeze Asia down to size and stretch out Europe. That way there will be more room for Euro civs to grow. Also Alaska and Greenland should shrink a little.
You also don't have to be that precise with ocean/sea differentiating, which only makes the map too busy and hard to look at. I have a hard time seeing civ color behind the multitude of white square cities on the mini-map, but that's Firaxis' fault.
Tundra tiles still produce food! It looks really lame when England started colonizing barren Greenland. It also looks lame when desperate Greeks and Germans start putting cities on the barren coastline of the Arctic Ocean, beyond Russia.
Anyway, I look forward to further updates, kitten. If there's anything I can do, I'll be glad to help.