The HEART Development and Core Thread
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I think its lame but maybe you can draw the Hatay-Syria border red. As far as I know Syria still claims Hatay province as it's integral part.
Can you send Norway and Iceland without glacier? My map is blank-like, just grey
@Agent of Chaos Here is my patch for the Republic of Turkey, the coastlines and rivers should be accurate but some of the smaller inland lakes were positioned from the borders so might be moved a little
Wonderful, @JG_Online . Doing Iraq (and Iran) would open up the possiblity of connecting your big patch to the Kuwait patch...
Speaking of Kuwait, I decided to make probably the last revision of Kuwait. I gave up on the Northeastern islands so I just removed them (this time not chopping a part of the coastline), I also added 1st levels and fixed some errors. The coloring between the northern border and the coastline next to Boubiyan could be a little off and there could be some other minor errors but I'm not really sure.
The map:
Source map:
Don't feel forced to help if you are unsure about your ability to draw, its totally cool to just spectate, or work on improving stuff that has already been drawn
I probably won't continue on the middle east untill after @Agent of Chaos has patched Turkey.
Patch #34
Making a way into South Africa, the second levels were a bit harder here due to lack of a good projected source so if anyone could take a look at those... otherwise happy with how this looks thus far
Added Northern Cape
Added Western Cape
Added Tristan da Cunha
Added the Oranje Rivier
I think the national borders are alright, so you can go ahead if you ask me. I'm quite busy irl and rarely find the time to do anything, so I don't want to be liable for the delay of a region.
No problem, but I want to stress there is no delay because I do not consider HEART to be on any sort of time-table, I don't want to rush into any regions while there is still Europe parts left to do, doing Europe is my passion project and aside from the Africa patch I don't really want to work on other areas untill it is done.
I think one of the main problems that caused M-BAM to be underwhelming compared to its Q-BAM counterpart is that development was pretty rushed, my goal with HEART is not just to provide a version of M-BAM in robinson by february but to have a more practical and detailed map than M-BAM (adding rivers, glaciers and as Tomoto has been doing, reefs), these are all features that have been available on Q-BAM for a few years now and are also going to be in RQ-BAM, M-BAM never had these because I think we rushed its development.
I want HEART to supersede M-BAM, not merely improve it, so hence I will re-iterate the point I have made before in this threat: "No rush"
Thus, you could do Finland and at least European Russia before Turkey is fully finished. But even agreeing with the "No rush!" idea, I still think we shouldn't all have to wait until @Agent of Chaos can add second-level subdivisions to Turkey.
You're not waiting for him, you are waiting for me, I don't want to deliver a product that I am not happy with and have to come back and fix it later because I wasn't attentive when I made it, this is the mistake we made with M-BAM and I am not eager to repeat it with HEART