First the basics established on the normal map:
APPLYING FOR A MAP PLOT
Location :-
Name of Country :-
Name & Location of Capital :-
Pertinent Threads/Wiki :-
Prospective countries must have thirty or more posts, if this is a secondary country please list the primary and your reasoning.
INACTIVITY
Role-play activity will prevent deletion from the map, 60 days being the minimum for this map, though an announcement of departure in the Absence Thread will excuse a drop off of activity.
COLONIAL ENTERPRISE
All applications to expand one’s map spot, either territorial annexation or colonial establishments, need to support them through this application process. For colonial applications a link to the thread/s that establish the background and general out-of-character effort of the colony also need to be submitted.
APPLYING FOR A MAP PLOT
Location :-
Name of Country :-
Name & Location of Capital :-
Pertinent Threads/Wiki :-
Prospective countries must have thirty or more posts, if this is a secondary country please list the primary and your reasoning.
INACTIVITY
Role-play activity will prevent deletion from the map, 60 days being the minimum for this map, though an announcement of departure in the Absence Thread will excuse a drop off of activity.
COLONIAL ENTERPRISE
All applications to expand one’s map spot, either territorial annexation or colonial establishments, need to support them through this application process. For colonial applications a link to the thread/s that establish the background and general out-of-character effort of the colony also need to be submitted.
Location :-
Name of Colony :-
Name of Primary Country :-
Established History :-
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Name of Colony :-
Name of Primary Country :-
Established History :-
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What this is
We are extremely proud to be able to present to you the Europe Globe, a Google Earth based project to take our world's map to the next level. This would not have been possible without Cantigny's dedicated work to ensure that the map wrap properly around the globe, requiring hours of changes and tweaking to make it become fully operational. As of now, we have two layers finished: a plain layer that shows just the shapes of the continents and islands with no frills, and a shape showing national borders, but with no text on it yet. This second map layer also has a problem right now that if zooming in too closely, it will become pixelated due to the shading being employed in the creation of the map. These are problems that will eventually get ironed out however, just like an additional layer with country names imprinted on the map in big capital letters (just like on the regular map) is being prepared and will likely go live in the next days.
I nevertheless felt that it would be unnecessary to make the community wait any longer, which is why I decided to go ahead and put forward the first version of Europe Globe. Europe Globe allows players not only to measure distances between locations with the ruler tool, but will also allow all of you to put cities, geographical locations, trade routes and many more features on the map all by yourself. What this will eventually result in is an authoritative global map created in rich detail by all players of the community, presenting all relevant information to you without having to dig through different maps all only presenting the data of one country. With the weather layer we now also will be able to have real weather to include in our roleplay, so hurray. Did I mention that you can also set things up in such a way as to linking wiki entries to city names (or other things indeed) on the map, meaning that clicking on a city name can take you to the wiki page? Because this will totally be possible.
As this is such a tremendous big step in our community, it wouldn't be wise to roll out all the features at once. Once you downloaded the Europe Package linked below you will realize that there are many layers (military formations, ethnic groups and so on) that I haven't even talked about yet. As there will be without a doubt problems and confusion in the beginning, it is best for now to concentrate on slapping cities on the map I think - and then roll out the other features in the upcoming days as people adjust to working on the map and submitting their changes to the community for me to incorporate into the next official package. We plan on continuing to release the normal map alongside the globe as its easier to look at from an office environment or on mobile devices (although Google Earth versions for iOS and Android exist). When the map and the globe conflict however, the globe will have the last word. Though as we are a cooperative community, surely there will never be any conflicts arising over map interpretations.
What you need
1. Google Earth. Download it from here:
2. Europe Globe Build 1.18. Download it from here:
Installation
1. After you downloaded and installed Google Earth, locate the EuropeGlobe1.kmz file you downloaded and double click on it if you are in Windows.
2. This should automatically open the globe in Google Earth. You will find that on the left side, its located under temporary places. Drag it into 'My Places' to ensure it doesn't get deleted when you close Google Earth.
3. Deactivate all the layers in the left corner on the bottom. Activate weather if you want to look at weather and borders if you want to compare your country's location to the real world, but keep them all usually deactivated or you get a clusterfuck on your globe.
4. That's it, you are all set up for viewing.
5. To toggle between the basic view and the border view, simply disable the respective checkbox on the left side.
How do I add my stuff?
I ultimately plan to set things up in such a fashion that your edits are automatically loaded to the server and distributed to all other players. Until such a time however, you will have to submit your edits for inclusion into the next update of the globe. The first thing that will soon get published is a styling guide for how to add cities. Here's how you add your changes to the greater globe. In the Nations folder under the Europe Globe folder, you add a new folder for your nation. Go about it like this:
I also added an example folder for Siyang and two example pins with the capital and a smaller city to give you an idea. Always add the date of your last edit in the nation folder name. This is absolutely crucial. If you want to submit your changes to the community, go about it by right clicking on your nation folder, and then 'Save Place as'. Then save that file as Nation - Date (same format as in Google Earth) and upload it somewhere, for example mediafire. Then post it here using the following template:
Folder: Folder/Subfolder (in this case, NationS/Siyang)
Link to File: Link to the file you just created.
If this is a public (e.g. not nation specific folder, like borders): This is based upon the latest version of this file posted by XYZ here (link to post). Ignore this if you are the first to edit after a new version of the Globe was released.
Example
If you edit something public and you are not the first to do so after a new version of the globe was released, you will have to download the latest version of the file as linked to by another player in this thread and edit that one to make sure that changes by all people are included. Your changes will not get accepted otherwise.
Make sure your pins are in the correct folder!
Make sure that the city pins are in your national folder. if they aren't, drag and drop them into there. It's easy, you will figure this out.
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Without a doubt there will still be tons of questions. This is okay. We expect that. While I will publish a short guideline for cities and how to pick the proper symbols for them today, I hope that once we open up the other features of the map to the public the community will begin to devise own guidelines for the rest, agree on common pins to use for common things and so on. The military aspect of this, with NATO buttons, will likely come in Globe 3 or beyond. For now, have fun. As this is the first version of the globe thread, all questions go here. In the future, we will handle this like the map was handled with an own thread.
Here's a small example of the future use of NATO symbols:
You must be registered for see links
We are extremely proud to be able to present to you the Europe Globe, a Google Earth based project to take our world's map to the next level. This would not have been possible without Cantigny's dedicated work to ensure that the map wrap properly around the globe, requiring hours of changes and tweaking to make it become fully operational. As of now, we have two layers finished: a plain layer that shows just the shapes of the continents and islands with no frills, and a shape showing national borders, but with no text on it yet. This second map layer also has a problem right now that if zooming in too closely, it will become pixelated due to the shading being employed in the creation of the map. These are problems that will eventually get ironed out however, just like an additional layer with country names imprinted on the map in big capital letters (just like on the regular map) is being prepared and will likely go live in the next days.
I nevertheless felt that it would be unnecessary to make the community wait any longer, which is why I decided to go ahead and put forward the first version of Europe Globe. Europe Globe allows players not only to measure distances between locations with the ruler tool, but will also allow all of you to put cities, geographical locations, trade routes and many more features on the map all by yourself. What this will eventually result in is an authoritative global map created in rich detail by all players of the community, presenting all relevant information to you without having to dig through different maps all only presenting the data of one country. With the weather layer we now also will be able to have real weather to include in our roleplay, so hurray. Did I mention that you can also set things up in such a way as to linking wiki entries to city names (or other things indeed) on the map, meaning that clicking on a city name can take you to the wiki page? Because this will totally be possible.
As this is such a tremendous big step in our community, it wouldn't be wise to roll out all the features at once. Once you downloaded the Europe Package linked below you will realize that there are many layers (military formations, ethnic groups and so on) that I haven't even talked about yet. As there will be without a doubt problems and confusion in the beginning, it is best for now to concentrate on slapping cities on the map I think - and then roll out the other features in the upcoming days as people adjust to working on the map and submitting their changes to the community for me to incorporate into the next official package. We plan on continuing to release the normal map alongside the globe as its easier to look at from an office environment or on mobile devices (although Google Earth versions for iOS and Android exist). When the map and the globe conflict however, the globe will have the last word. Though as we are a cooperative community, surely there will never be any conflicts arising over map interpretations.
What you need
1. Google Earth. Download it from here:
You must be registered for see links
2. Europe Globe Build 1.18. Download it from here:
You must be registered for see links
Installation
1. After you downloaded and installed Google Earth, locate the EuropeGlobe1.kmz file you downloaded and double click on it if you are in Windows.
2. This should automatically open the globe in Google Earth. You will find that on the left side, its located under temporary places. Drag it into 'My Places' to ensure it doesn't get deleted when you close Google Earth.
3. Deactivate all the layers in the left corner on the bottom. Activate weather if you want to look at weather and borders if you want to compare your country's location to the real world, but keep them all usually deactivated or you get a clusterfuck on your globe.
4. That's it, you are all set up for viewing.
5. To toggle between the basic view and the border view, simply disable the respective checkbox on the left side.
How do I add my stuff?
I ultimately plan to set things up in such a fashion that your edits are automatically loaded to the server and distributed to all other players. Until such a time however, you will have to submit your edits for inclusion into the next update of the globe. The first thing that will soon get published is a styling guide for how to add cities. Here's how you add your changes to the greater globe. In the Nations folder under the Europe Globe folder, you add a new folder for your nation. Go about it like this:
You must be registered for see links
You must be registered for see links
I also added an example folder for Siyang and two example pins with the capital and a smaller city to give you an idea. Always add the date of your last edit in the nation folder name. This is absolutely crucial. If you want to submit your changes to the community, go about it by right clicking on your nation folder, and then 'Save Place as'. Then save that file as Nation - Date (same format as in Google Earth) and upload it somewhere, for example mediafire. Then post it here using the following template:
Folder: Folder/Subfolder (in this case, NationS/Siyang)
Link to File: Link to the file you just created.
If this is a public (e.g. not nation specific folder, like borders): This is based upon the latest version of this file posted by XYZ here (link to post). Ignore this if you are the first to edit after a new version of the Globe was released.
Example
You must be registered for see links
.If you edit something public and you are not the first to do so after a new version of the globe was released, you will have to download the latest version of the file as linked to by another player in this thread and edit that one to make sure that changes by all people are included. Your changes will not get accepted otherwise.
Make sure your pins are in the correct folder!
Make sure that the city pins are in your national folder. if they aren't, drag and drop them into there. It's easy, you will figure this out.
----------------
Without a doubt there will still be tons of questions. This is okay. We expect that. While I will publish a short guideline for cities and how to pick the proper symbols for them today, I hope that once we open up the other features of the map to the public the community will begin to devise own guidelines for the rest, agree on common pins to use for common things and so on. The military aspect of this, with NATO buttons, will likely come in Globe 3 or beyond. For now, have fun. As this is the first version of the globe thread, all questions go here. In the future, we will handle this like the map was handled with an own thread.
Here's a small example of the future use of NATO symbols:
You must be registered for see links
