I decided to try making a map, and the first thing that came to mind was a world in which sea level had risen a lot so that my homeland, New England, could become an island. I started working on it, and I think I will have to redo the whole Greenland place. Nunavut is also incomplete, and I think I might reorganise Quebec too. None of these bonuses are final, and feel free to suggest changes if you think some work better. I'll probably post in this thread as I progress.

Also, territory names would be nice as well if you think I am wrong (the chance of which increases exponentially as you distance from North America).

https://www.warlight.net/Play?PreviewMap=39174

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Firenze lives in a forest. and you need to put in water (like a blue background), and the rest of the world. But it is a good start.

Never saw Scandinavia get put in the same category as Fennoscandia, usually other way around.

I ended up scrapping that and doing this one in a slightly higher resolution:

https://www.warlight.net/Play?PreviewMap=39233

I still need to do North America, Asia and Australia which will be exciting.

How is Greece not underwater, same goes for Italy.

Cos we make the best food mate.

Good work, looks like it will be a interesting map when its finished!

Wow, it looks really good.
I wonder how are you doing to realize which part is underwater and which is not, because I really tried to find a map where I could see it and I didn't found any.
Really good map, it would be nice if you do one more detailed map when you finish this. Maybe in a smaller region, like a serie of maps on this "post-apocallyptic world", it would be nice.

There are quite a few rising sea level maps like this one:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-map

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That was a great issue (of National Geographic)

Yeah I might consider doing regional maps afterwards.

For flood maps, I first took http://www.heywhatsthat.com/layers.html and set the rise to a level which I thought would be interesting.

Then, I took an elevation map (for example, this one: (warning, large image) http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/color_etopo1_ice_low.jpg)

I used the paintbucket tool to colour in the gradients which should be underwater as per the first map, and then I resized it and used it as a background image for the .svg file which I traced.

I mainly am concerned over the balance of the bonuses. But that can be fixed easily with testing and maybe a little bit of reshuffling.

P.S. Even if every bit of ice on the planet melts we won't gain more than 300 ft of sea rise.

I think you made a typo with Ireland.

This is a good idea by the way, I hope it turns out well.