Yet another world map

[ffutures]

This one is based on an image generated by a freeware program called Alternative World Map Creator which has a few problems on my PC but seems to do a reasonably good job of creating the sort of image I want. I've edited the image to replace some ice with sea, make Greenland green, and add the equator.

My reason for looking at this is that I remembered I used to have a similar DOS program that generated vector-graphics maps; can't find it anywhere now, but this seems just about suitable for my needs, and won't require me to re-draw the map to get around watermarking etc.



There's a very narrow belt of land linking siberia and Alaska which is an artefact of the mapping program, I'll have to delete it but I don't see that as an insurmountable problem. It also needs more ice around the Bering Strait which is now under the icecap.






Any thoughts?

Comments

[nelc.livejournal.com]

I'd be inclined to green up Africa and Arabia along the equator a bit. I don't know how long equatorial rainfall would take to get southern Sahara fertile again, but I don't think it should be quite as starkly dry-looking. Maybe desertify the southern Amazonian rainforest just a touch, too? Did you green up Australia already?

I think you're going to lose some glaciation in Wilkes Land, Antarctica. That's going to be only a bit south of where New Zealand is today, I think, so maybe as green as you have Iceland and Greenland.

[nelc.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I'd move the Kalihari up a bit, too. Less Namibia and Botswana, and more Angola and Zambia.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

The only bits I'd edited when I posted that were Greenland and the seas around it. I've since taken care of the edge of Wilkes land (added some visible land and sea where there's now ice, I'm assuming the ice hasn't finished melting yet.), and got rid of the weird land bridge under the Bering Straits. I'll take a look at deserts tonight, but remembering this is a managed program with huge efforts made to maintain existing habitable bits, there won't be huge changes.

[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

Won't there be sea level rises? Areas such as Florida and Bangla Desh are going to be flooded, are they not? Or am I missing the point of what you're doing?