Froonp -> RE: MWiF Map Review - India & Burma - Irak (2/17/2009 5:26:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Froonp Thanks for the drawings barbarossa2, but I think that we won't redraw the area to a so large extend. There are multiple reasons for that. First is that this area was debated and redrawn a couple of times already, and some of your modifications go back to the place it was before the last modifications. I don't want to go back and forth indefinitely. The last discussion had sound arguments too, one of which was that the Tigris should not be adjacent to the Persian border that's why we gave up those 2 hexes to Iraq. Now you come and say that the global shape is not good. Second is that redrawing the area to a so large extend would necessitate assessing all the neighboring countries too, and I don't think that we want to do that. Redrawing Irak leads to redrawing Turkey, and Persia, and then the Black Sea, the easter part of the Med. Third is that I think that due to different projections, we will never find a perfect MWiF map of all the places in the world, and we have to accept some differences. I think that Iraq as it stands now is both acceptable, and also an improvement from where we started with the original CWiF map. You must also know that the awkwardness of this area of the map comes from the fact that a large part of it is on the WiF FE European map, and that this was decided to be kept as it was, with some modifications on the fringes, like the one we did for Scandinavia, and some we did here in Middle East, and particulary in Iraq. But I believe that here you are bringing us too far. This said, I keep your proposed map and text in my archives, in the place where I keep all the work about this area of the world, we never know, and if we have the chance to improve the map deeper in the future, I'll use your work. Opinions from other people ? Oh, in fact, there was a fourth point, that was my first indeed, but I had forgotten about it when I answered. This fourth point is that I bet that if you apply the formula you applied to any country on the WiF FE map (superposing a map to the MWiF map, which I did too in places to get a better idea), you will find distorsions. Even if you only take France or Germany, so I suppose that Iraq is not that bad amongst all the other countries. There is one country that must be 100% perfect, this is Ireland, that I redrew entirely using this method.
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