New If Nosotros Were Dutch

This calendar week I actually liked the Newcastle Brown map If We Won. The map presents an alternate history of the USA, showing what towns together with cities mightiness survive called directly if the USA hadn't won the War of Independence.

This morn I decided to convey a teach at creating a similar map. The lawsuit is New Amsterdam, a petty map of what New York mightiness await similar today if the Dutch were all the same inward charge. The map isn't close every bit practiced every bit the Newcastle Brown map merely great for a span of hours work.

For the sake of speed I decided non to do my ain base of operations map tiles. Instead I used Google Maps Styled Maps to hand the map a slight vintage await together with to take away the Google Maps labels. I thence used the Map Label library to add together my ain Dutch names to the map. I also added a few map markers to add together windmills, mountains together with a transportation to the map.

The map alone took a span of hours thence it looks a combat ragged. It could survive improved yesteryear changing the means of the map labels to brand them a combat to a greater extent than pronounced - similar on the If We Won map. The map mark icons also involve a petty operate on the transparency. If I had the fourth dimension the biggest improvement would survive to do together with add together my ain vintage looking base of operations map tiles (but that's never going to happen).