Not quite sure what you mean. But aren't those two maps different projections? Different projections skews the form and size of regions making a map look weird/wrong.zomo said:It looks like strange map distortion leads to change of area of particular regions. France Germany and Netherlands are much bigger while Russia, Romania and Poland relatively much smaller. Is it fixed already?
Sure but it seems there are still wrong shapes of borders.battlecry said:Just go look at a globe, and then look at a flat (like in an atlas) map of the same region. They'll look quite different. Converting a spheroid surface into a flat one requires certain distortions.
I think it's already been stated by the Devs that the Benelux area is terribly incomplete.Netherlands is much too big comparing to Belgium. etc etc..
supernova said:Specifically in the "Netherlands" case, it looks like the north-western coast of Germany is too far up north and the part of Germany at the border of Denmark is too short. That would explain why the Netherlands are too big (except if they drained some more of the North Sea )
Deus Eversor said:i am not saying that say slovakia has not enough province to do battles there nor i say the borders are wrong
i say geography is wrong
yes it is good to have lot of provinces but it is not good when at expense of something so litle other provinces suffer a major lookin' change
i understand that isles can be a exception
but how do you explain such caucasus? how more provinces in europe cause that caucasus should be so drastically reshaped like a black hole was somewhere around?
Map geography is important. For example:THE_SPLIT said:The map requires a lot of historical data, I am very very sure that they will be working on it throught out the whole development!
You can't just overlay them and compare, because the difference in the projections isn't something that you can scale away at 1:1 on every point.zomo said:Sure but it seems there are still wrong shapes of borders.
1 Map) I tried to anchor map on a 3 points (Scandinavia, Spain and Greece)
2 Map) I move the map to cover Poland and Czechoslovak Rep. As we can see Poland is much smaller (on favour of Germany, Lithuania and Soviet Union) then it is on the real map while Czechoslovak Rep.is rather bigger then it shoud be.
3 Map) I move the map to cover Yugoslavia. As we can Romania is relatively smaller then it shoud be in Bessarabia.
Netherlands is much too big comparing to Belgium. etc etc..
IMHO It would be better to use a real satelite map.
dermeister said:You can't just overlay them and compare, because the difference in the projections isn't something that you can scale away at 1:1 on every point.
If the HOI3 map was created using a legitimate projection, then there is no problem.
For example some projections are 1:1 distance proportional on the horizontal axis but on the vertical axis it is only 1:1 at the equator and is enlarged as you go towards the poles.
The point is that you can't just overlay 2 maps of different projections.