Has Anyone Made a Geographically Accurate Map?

[idleautarch]

I know the ocean ratio is skewed for a reason (boats are too slow in Civ, and maps aren't big enough to accomodate proper land spaces at 66% water) but has anyone ever made a properly sized Africa on a world map? Africa is eight times the size of the United States. And what about Siberia? Siberia is about 1/3rd of Russia, which is the largest nation in the world. Siberia and Russia in general should dominate the Euroasian continent.

 

[Sims2789]

Landwise, Siberia is much larger than Russia. One problem with making an accurate map is that the Earth is in the shape of a nearly-perfect globe, where the top and bottom are smaller than the middle, whereas in Civ3, the maps are like a rolled up piece of paper, where the top is as wide as the middle which is as wide as the bottom.

 

[Tholish]

That's why a future version of civ should include diagonal wrap. Here's
how it would work. Take a square map, lined into squares. Make one corner the north pole and simply curl the square around into a cone, so that corner is now the point of the cone. That's how each hemisphere would work. Take two of them and put them together at the equator to make something at least a little closer to a sphere than the cylinder.

 

[Padma]

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