Timeline for Tips for Improving a Fictional Map's Coastlines
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| Aug 27, 2021 at 23:01 | comment | added | Keith Morrison | Purely on a mapmaking/projection level, you have two islands cut off by the northern edge of the map. On any sort of projection, if a feature is cut off by one edge of a world map, the part cut off must appear somewhere else: on north and south, somewhere else on that same side, on east and west, on the other side. | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 11:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 11:55 | comment | added | Tim B | Yes, I think @MichaelKjörling has the best idea. Either put a scale bar into the image or specify how many miles/km the full width of the image is, | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 7:04 | comment | added | user | "1 mm" is meaningless in computer graphics without specifying the dot pitch. You should ideally specify pixels to real-world units (for example, 1 px corresponds to 600 meters, in the full-size image). Alternatively, state the distance from one edge to the other. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 6:26 | answer | added | JDługosz | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 3:08 | history | reopened |
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 23:50 | comment | added | can-ned_food | It looks a bit much like our Earth put through a dream. I see North America, Eurasia, Africa, Antarctica, Greenland… | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 20:46 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 20:27 | history | edited | user36897 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I narrowed the question down to ask only about coastlines and added the map's scale and projection.
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 19:18 | history | closed |
Mołot Tim B |
Needs more focus | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 18:38 | comment | added | Mrkvička | Compulsory XKCD on the subject. | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 17:21 | comment | added | EngelOfChipolata | What I find strange is that countries borders are defined but the topography (mountains, valley, even rivers) are not represented. Depending on how advanced is your civilization is could be more natural to do the other way around. Borders are often defined by rivers or mountains in "low-tech" civilizations. "Higher-tech" civilizations make borders more straights (see the European borders and the USA ones). | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 17:00 | comment | added | Schwern | What sort of map projection is this? Where are the poles? What are the lines of longitude and latitude? What's the scale? | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 16:48 | answer | added | Vylix | timeline score: 10 | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 16:43 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 16:35 | comment | added | Willk | I see Italy and Sicily! | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 16:28 | review | First posts | |||
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 16:24 | history | asked | user36897 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |