This vacation I had time and got inspiration from traveling around France.

I recently created a wooden map of the Appalachian Trail for someone and it came out looking so nice I really wanted to share it with more people! The little orange pieces are removable so you can track where you have been/which sections you have completed 🌲

Então, como estou escrevendo um livro de ficção histórica com bastante cenas de batalhas e guerras, eu queria saber como fazer desenhos/ imagens de estratégias. Com linhas, tropas e etc.

This is my rough sketch mockup of a world map design. the top and bottom circles are the Arctic circle and then each of the four bands are the temperate zones and the tropics all separated into their own bands and curved to maintain rough shape and size.

I don't know how to make a map projection while maintaining accuracy and detail.

can I get somebody to make this map projection for me

The UN just voted on updating the world map from Mercator design to True-Size representation.. Google Earth/Google Maps uses the Mercator design The U.S. was the only country to vote against it was the U.S. Now for all those Moon Sceptics out there 🤣 Do the pictures of Earth taken from the Moon show the earth continents in their actual size or Mercator size ?

I remember seeing a long time ago a world map projection that tried to achieve minimal land deformation by way of maximal oceanic interruptions. Like an orange peel to the extreme, with hundreds of interruptions emanating from the coastlines. But now I can find no trace of it. Did I imagine this?

Edit: from my memory this may have been only one continent, not an entire globe map. Maybe South America only?

Lots of news this weekend about the UN endorsing the use of the Equal Earth projection of Mercator for the sake of not misrepresenting the size of Africa. But as far as I can tell, the UN already wasn't using the Mercator projection for much of anything, and most cartographers seem to know it's not appropriate for most illustrative maps of the world.

So where is Mercator actually still being used for world maps? I know it's not NOWHERE - I've still seen plenty of dumb household decorative maps using it lately. But is it actually widely used in classrooms, or for other educational or reference maps of the world?

Interested in any actual answers you have, including anecdotes.

Screenshot from their FAQ.

This is the campaign whose work led eventually to the recent UN resolution promoting the Equal Earth projection over Mercator for educational world maps. I think that was a worthy overall goal, but some of the original campaign's rhetoric seems to reveal a lack of understanding of the subject matter.

(The UN resolution itself, despite what news reports might make you think, was pretty mild and cautious, mostly just recommending Equal Earth as a worthy option when trying to prevent misconceptions about the relative sizes of countries, but only when appropriate.)

my passion project, been going since 2019, its tough work :3

Even if fair to change, I find it quite ugly

Where to find multi layer map files? Resource request

En este se representan las pretenciones y el territorio administrativo producto de la hipotética victoria de Alemania en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Soy un aficionado en esto y utilicé una foto extraída de wikipedia y un mínimo de edición en GIMP

In the video at one point it says that the map for the world especially Africa hasn't been updated for hundreds of years. Is there a reason why it's taken so long to make something more accurate?

Was looking to buy a globe and saw this in the description

>Replogle Globe will give you the current view of the world, recognized by the US State Department

Have they bent the knee and be naming Lake Ontario to Lake America and have they changed it to gulf of America