Jipécé34

Problem of States boundaries in Azimuthal orthographic maps of the World

Hi! I saw your maps of the World, which are in Azimuthal orthographic projection. They have a big problem about the international boundaries: the chronological situation of these delination is impossible. We can see two states for Yemen (situation before may, 1990) and two states after Czechoslovakia (situation after january, 1993). The problem is enforced by the post-yougoslavian states, etc. Well, I suppose it's important to decide at what date the map is a representation.

An other remark is about the presence of lakes and big rivers which weigh the map and make a trouble (particularly in north Europe and Spain). I suppose you used a GIS file about the World which containted these informations. A file with only political boundaries is perhaps a solution.

All my remarks put me in a position where "it's easy to be a critic but hard to be an artist"... Thank you in advance if you can change these things--Jipécé34 (talk) 14:24, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Those files are pretty old. Nowadays people have been using newer information and software to make the types of maps like, for example, file:yemen (orthographic projection).svg. While I find the use of white lines as state boundaries when water is also colored white to be, frankly, terribly misleading, in other respects these newer maps are much better. I'd just use those. You can probably find the information and script for assembling them somewhere on here. ¦ Reisio (talk) 16:38, 5 August 2012 (UTC)