So, I decided to work on a map after a very long time, I want to try making a map of all the Americas during the year 1840, I think I could get some help trying to get the borders correctly because I have found some helpful maps from that specific year, (Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela) but in the case of Bolivia I cant find a map from that year, so it overlaps some regions it shouldnt,because, for example,a region like Amazonia will have many countries claiming the same areas or ambiguos borders because the borders back then werent properly defined, but I dont think it is supposed to overlap a region like modern day Loreto (which back then was under Ecuatorian rule) considering almost all the maps I check agree it was ecuatorian. If you could send me some maps from that year I would appreciate your help a lot, both from North America and South America (right now Im working on South America). Also I would like to hear suggestions, this is my second map (and my first one wasnt great) so I want to get it right this time

Here's a few maps to help you with borders

https://goo.gl/images/1MkgYE for the USA (oregon country here was actually jointly run but the British and Americans and both claimed it
https://goo.gl/images/6aQvou for more in depth analysis

https://goo.gl/images/Joiqjc it's in french but essentially this is a map of the united province of canada formed in 1840, split into canada east and canada west. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island are the same as their modern equivalents and Newfoundland has a lot less of Labrador.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_Provinces_of_Central_America_(orthographic_projection).svg In 1840 there was the Federal Republic of Central America, which was in the middle of a civil war and seperated into the modern day countries there in 1841. Idk if you wanna make it seperate or all united but here's a map to show you it

https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~2982~220122:South-America- here's a map of south america circa 1840 as well

Good luck with the map man :D

Dragon, tell Michael to get his shit together.

Thanks for the maps, just a little detail is that the map stills shows Gran Colombia when it dissolved in 1830, I found a map of Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia after the dissolution so I guess that fixes it, and Uruguay as part of Argentina but it was already independent (1828), thank lord you found me a map that shows Bolivia-Peu borders because they've been giving me problems haha.
Just a question, who owned Guiana back then? Was it France?
Note: I just did some research, apparently all the Guianas, (French, Dutch and British) kept the same border since 1814, British Guiana had territorial issues with Venezuela, so I will turn the disputed Area into a Disputed Area Bonus, also I found more info about Portuguese Guyana

Edited 8/29/2018 22:16:57

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OSh0oKQbOA this video also shows the history of the Caribbean if you're adding that too. Just go to the year 1840 to see how the map looks

Yeah, thanks, I'm adding the Caribbean, they're too small so most of the Antilles are just balls but thanks

Yes more mapsssss

btw do you have a link to the map so far? Just curious to see what you have so far if you need any info on like territory names and stuff.

Also feel free to invite me if you need someone to playtest it. I've done it for many maps in the past and I'm willing to help for this one as well

right now im just drawing the borders, no territories yet, I like to take my time, also, I noticed I have lot of free horizontal space, i could add some boxes with regions outside America, I planned to add some Antarctica but I would like to hear suggestions first.

This is the map just in case: https://www.warzone.com/SinglePlayer?PreviewMap=74497

As I said, no territories for now, only the political map, I will probably add Greenland later
Disputed lands include: Maine and Michigan (UK and US), Texas (Republic of Texas and Mexico) and Guiana (Venezuela and UK), they will be part of both nations bonus.

Also, sure, I will invite you to the tests if you want

Note: Right now the Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas have their territories.

Edited 9/1/2018 08:12:06

One thing I'd like to note is the practical (though not nominal) independence of a lot of rebel and native groups around this time.
I see you've gone with the nominal borders of the US, Chile and Mexico, but keep in mind that huge areas were not in any way in the hands of the "official" government.
In the latter half of the 19th century there were still dozens of very costly wars between natives and "civilized" nations.
This is the time of the Comanche-Mexico war, the Seminole Wars, Mapuche-Chilean wars. This is fifty years *before* the Sioux manage to give the US army serious trouble, so do not underestimate how relevant these native groups still were at this time.

It's up to you if you want to do something with it - going with nominal borders (even if disputed) is a valid choice, but putting in some native territories could be fun as well.

Sure, I will put some natives, I mean, Oregon, Patagonia and North Canada Islands are controlled by natives but I could add some more, I would like to hear suggestions regarding that, should I make them their own bonus inside the nation's nominal borders or a completely different "nation" and just add a bonus named for example Mexico (Nominal Borders) that includes them? If you have something else on mind I would like to hear your ideas.

I'm also planning to add some in Greenland and Western Canada, at that time most of UK's control over Canada was nominal, specially to the West. I would appreciate if you could send me some maps that show indigenous groups so I can add them

what I would do as put some of the territory based on these native areas and maybe make them it's own bonus and have the claimed areas as a superbonus

This shows the counties within the US states as of 1840. I'd use it:



Edited 9/2/2018 21:11:50

Thanks, I will use it to map USA and Texas when I get to them, right now im doing South America, if you happen to check the map and have better suggestions for the name of some territories let me know because there are some areas im unsure about (specially around the Amazonas)
Also I found this map of north America showing the areas under actual control of the nations and some indigenous groups, is it accurate?

https://omniatlas.com/maps/northamerica/18400808/plain/

I added the Mapuche (south Argentina and Chile) the Amazonians (Brazil, some Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela) and Chaco (Bolivia) as indigenous groups. Mapuche will be their own bonus, same with Chaco, the Amazonians will have their bonus in Brazil but will need the lands in the rest of the nations to get the superbonus, I already uploaded the map showing how they would look (Chaco is already mapped and some Amazonians too since I already did Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru, if what Im doing isnt what you expected let me know so I can hear suggestions

Edited 9/3/2018 06:14:07

Is looking good!

This websites maps are sorely lacking in native americans

This should be useful for South America:

Ollie, regarding the South America map, there's something I'm not sure if I should add because it would be a mess but you tell me, the Map shows Acre as a disputed area, in my map it appears as part of the Amazonians but claimed by Brazil, however if I do it according to the map I should add it as claimed by: Brazil, Bolivia and Peru while controlled by Amazonians, should I?

Pen tool is recommended

I'd show it as either part of Bolivia, or claimed by it. I don't think Brazil had any practical claim to it in 1840.