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OzzyKP
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Rockville, MD
Oct 1999
time: 00:12
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Howdy all, i'm a bit new to the creation forum, but in light of a new ultimate diplomatic game that Capo and i are starting in January i started looking around for a good world map to use. Unfortunatly i didn't find anything, the apolyton maps section was pretty dry on world maps, so i set out to make one myself, and now it has become my project of the moment. I think it is pretty damn good. Sitting down with a bunch of maps and really going for realism.
I used the map edit program on apolyton to give a bit more room to the map, but not as much as i wanted. Could someone tell me where to find the program that lets you expand the map to 32,768.
Right now i'm pretty much done with shaping and sizing everything, i just have to fill in all the continents now.
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OzzyKP
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Rockville, MD
Oct 1999
time: 00:12
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quote:
Originally posted by Stefan Härtel on 12-06-2000 02:28 PM
The Caspian Sea is a bit too thin to the southeast, while Lake Suprerior goes too much into triangular in the north (try pushing in a land square in the south) and lacks connection with the other Great Lakes. Lake Victoria is missing as well as Lake Malawi and Tanganyika. The Aral Sea should be bit more "round" to the south.
You should also include either Lake Titicaca or Lake Popó in Peru or Bolivia.
Greenland should be expanded a bit more eastwards.
Alaska is a bit too flat to the north.
I'd also recommend to include Hawaii, Fidji and a couple of islands in the Pacific (like Micronesia) and the Indian Ocean (like Seychelles, Maledives, Cergueles etc.)
In the Atlantic I suggest to include the Azores and the Falkland Isles.
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Please don't be afraid to give advice, i need all i can get i want this to be perfect. Right now the map is nearly finished. I filled in everything and picked the best resource seed and whatnot, it should be ready to go now. I just want to have a few of the most nitpicky people i know look over it to iron out some problems.
Alot of the problems you saw in the representation i posted we due to limitations of the map. Yes Lake SUperior does connect to the other great lakes, it just doesn't show that on the map. I had forgot about islands, so i went and added hawaii, and alot of other small islands to make it interesting.
Aral sea is tough, because of the grid pattern of the map board i can't make something that small accurately shaped. So it'll have to stay as is. I did add lake tittikaka, but as an isolated river square rather than an ocean swuare. I ddi this for a few other small lakes that weren't big enough to warrant a full tile of ocean.
I'll see what i can do with the shape of the caspian sea and lake superior, it might just be the map, or it might be probelms i'll look.
Some one else told me about greeland, i'll work on it, but i want to take care that the reason everyone says it is wrong is not because of their familiarity with falty maps, alot of people tell me that africa is too big, but i measured it out exactly and it is truly to scale.
Please give me lots of suggestions, and be sure to contact me via email if you want a copy sent to you. "OzzyKP@aol.com"
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Ozzy - King of Metal
Ozzy - Hungarians in Eurodip I
Ozzy - Proud Sayen member
Ozzy - Prez of NYRA, http://nyra.ecg.net
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Panda
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Europe
Jan 1970
time: 05:12
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Well here's a suggestion: DaveV was perfectly correct to point out that different people like different kinds of maps. If you downloaded my map you should have read the documentation that came with it. It was not supposed to be an ultra-realistic world map (the Mercator map already holds that spot), and as such you have no right to judge it by that standard or express your opinions in such a disparaging and disrespectful manner.
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