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 in addition to cities powerfulness hold upwardly called at i time if the USA hadn't won the War of Independence.
This forenoon I decided to convey a teach at creating a similar map. The lawsuit is New Amsterdam, a footling map of what New York powerfulness expect similar today if the Dutch were yet inwards charge. The map isn't most every bit proficient every bit the Newcastle Brown map exactly cracking for a pair of hours work.
For the sake of speed I decided non to practice my ain base of operations map tiles. Instead I used Google Maps Styled Maps to grade the map a slight vintage expect in addition to to take the Google Maps labels. I in addition to then 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 in addition to a send to the map.
The map entirely took a pair of hours therefore it looks a flake ragged. It could hold upwardly improved yesteryear changing the agency of the map labels to brand them a flake to a greater extent than pronounced - similar on the If We Won map. The map marking icons also require a footling run on the transparency. If I had the fourth dimension the biggest improvement would hold upwardly to practice in addition to add together my ain vintage looking base of operations map tiles (but that's never going to happen).
