And on a related point: if you look at an online map of the world and place a rectangular sheet of paper on it so that one of its long edges lies on the equator (alternately covering, for purposes of comparison, the bottom half and the top half), you’ll notice that most of the world’s land masses are in the northern hemisphere. All of North America, all of Europe, virtually all of Asia, and much of Africa are located there. The main land masses in the southern hemisphere are South America, the lower part of Africa, Australia, and Antarctica; the rest of the southern hemisphere is mainly water, which means that for A&A map purposes it’s mostly wasted space. Oceania, a.k.a. the Pacific Islands, including Australia and New Zealand, did see significant action in WWII, so its inclusion on an A&A map is quite relavant…but by the same token Antarctica is a land mass that’s traditionally (and with good reason) omitted from A&A maps.
Cleaned-up G40 map / 96x48" (Preview)
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Ambilzi, Intrepid, Young Grasshopper made the original map file.
I resized it and cleaned it up a lot. Here is a low-resolution preview:
http://imgur.com/9OJef89Major fixes include:
- Clean borders and territory names
- Perfectly clean roundels
- Flattened ocean color
- Removed neutral army icons
Too many fixes to list.
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Very nice job! excellent work… it’s too clean for me, but there are those here that wanted all my stuff off, now they have it.
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Thank you very much, YG! Another thing I forgot to mention is that I “finished” New Zealand by hand. The original map has it cropped. Because the dimensions are different, I was able to expand the southern hemisphere a bit.
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Well done AlphaKappa, your changes are exactly the ones I’m currently working on. But progress has been slow over the last weeks.
Could you share the full res version of the map as well? That would be awsome!
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Sure! Here is a link to the full .jpg file. Let me know if you see anything else that needs to be fixed.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xpiwfbbw7e3otvy/G40 96x47 - 310dpi - Version 1.jpg?dl=0
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Is there a high resolution copy of the 48x96 version that has the additions that YG, Ambilzi, and Intrepid made?
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Can you stop doing jpegs and start using .PNG or .PDF?
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Yes, please.
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