Micronational Cartography Society

Hieu, no, no Autorealm. I used PaintShopPro plus a trial version of FractalMapper (http://www.nbos.com/products/mapper/mapper.htm). I've heard some good things about Autorealm but never tried it. Harvey, praise from you is high praise indeed, so I'm delighted you are satisfied. As for a New Urojea, ...

This map was current as of a week ago. Anything still in the claims forum probably hasn't been added yet, but will go on 10.1 or 11.0. Also, Numenor's territory on Feanoria hasn't been given cities or provinces yet; again, wait for 10.1. A lot of this was transferred over by hand, so it's very likel...

Please post any 10.0 errors you catch here if you want them changed.

AAAAH! TOO MANY CITIES!
*shudders at trying to add all of those to the map*

But Scott, that shouldn't be our goal. We aren't running this organisation to gain the upper hand in some petty rivalry- we're running it to provide a developed, accurate, and concise mapping organisation for simulationist micronations. Really? Speak for yourself. I'm mostly doing it out of the gai...

I dunno if I believe that. We've got ALL of the eastern continent, a good chunk west of Shireroth, and another good chunk north of Antica.

I say don't remove Lovely yet. If we start punishing people for being annoying or "ungrateful", we turn into crazy dictator people. Besides, if our eventual goal is to get as many GSO people onto Micras as possible, we can't go making enemies now. And I just like the way they look on the m...

You give me the word, and I'LL name your cities and provinces for you as I do the map update.

I hardly think the CIS is a good standard for comparison, since they're being debiggified quite a bit and people are crying for them to be debiggifed even further. But on a MUCH more important note...your city names. You're obviously going for a Tolkien theme, which is good, but just taking words ou...

Liam has a good point. However, I'm talking about nationst that we remove for lack of activity, not nations that leave to go to the GSO or somewhere. Technically, they've given us a license to use their intellectual property by asking to be put on the map, and have never revoked that license unless ...

I agree its a silly shape. I'd be willing to give them everything between that claim and the Shirerithian border to the east. Someone want to ask them about that?

Meh, sure.

can we not save hassle and keep the key as it is. I'm just afraid it's breeding confusion. Half the people here seem to think it means "like a regional capital, only of a bigger region", and half the people here seem to think it means "like a national capital, only a second one"...

Well, I was able to cram them all in with only minor readability issues. The name of the country had to go out in the ocean with an arrow, though. It all depends which is more important to you, getting every single city in or having it look neat and pretty.

Nope! Every real map I've ever seen has just had two equal-sized stars in Bolivia!

New 10.0.0 gripe: Why does Lovely have a city called Nice-on-Sea hundreds of miles from any body of water?

Sure.

Pretoia would be shown as an administrative capital because the country is administrated from there, Cape Town would be listed as Capital, because it is the ceremonial and populatory capital Wait wait wait. Populatory capital? As in New York City is the populatory capital of the US because it has t...

1. If you look at the earth, you'll notice that land at the tropics tends to be more covered with plants, and land at the north pole tends to be more covered with rock and ice. However, this effect ended up confusing more people than it impressed, and so it has been dropped for the version I'm worki...

*sigh* If you absolutely must. Go ahead and call your capital Ŋëŵ Ćāpįŧăł Ċĩțŷ, if that's what makes you happy.

*storms off muttering about how they don't pay him enough*

South Africa, look in any book and you will be told that the administrative capital is Pretoria, Cape Town, however, is the capital. Yes, but the way they seem to be used now (and the way Max mentioned) seems to be as a capital for a smaller area, rather than as an auxilliary national capital. On t...

By non-Roman letters I mean stuff like the Cyrillic south of Stormark. Anything in Hebrew, Chinese, or a similar language would also get you in trouble. Accents are okay. Pete, no, it's not. It's a bit north and west of Stormark. Testicleé contains the word testicle, if I'm not mistaken. And now tha...

Yeah, I've changed some of the colors around now. Unoccupied now looks much closer to white than to green, and the yellow and green are a little darker.

1. City size. The MCS currently has four sizes for non-national-capital cities - regional capital, administrative capital, big city, and small city. No, I don't know the difference between regional and administrative capitals either, and will probably be combining them on the new map. Some countries...

Great Kesh?
You wouldn't by any chance be the guy who made that Great Kesh Civ2 scenario, would you?

Back in the old days, when a country disappeared, some of its larger towns remained on the map for a while as free cities for a few reasons: 1. More realistic; the Roman Empire fell, but Rome is still around. 2. Fills in otherwise big swaths of blank space. 3. Easier for the cartographers than bothe...