World Background Maps

[IG_nor]

So, as I understood from PM forum they don't care about Turkey and ME connection. "and since PMME is in a totally different location then where it should be, there won’t be a connection anytime soon". Am I right that we should forget about this RC at all?

[Arayas]

I'm working on it, today will be released. I was to pissed off yesterday, more likely staying in my house with water all over doesnt improved the situation.

[paokkerkir]

Is there a problem between BG with country colours and PM ME, buddy.

Their middle east section, is completely in the sea.

If/When Bengan releases a new BG I will update the colored one.

[IG_nor]

@Arayas thank you! And how is your roof? Is it possible to live in you apartment after what happened?

[Ronin]

I think he compares his home to Atlantis.
Nor did they (PM) listen until their house disappeared underwater

[Dogbert]

Is there a problem between BG with country colours and PM ME, buddy.

Their middle east section, is completely in the sea.

If/When Bengan releases a new BG I will update the colored one.

Okee dokes buddy, much appreciated. I do much prefer the coloured map personally.

[BenganJ]

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Finally yesterday 21st of May 2020 I got a proper answer from an official member of the Promods team, Mandelsoft, to my question put forward
on the 13th of April 2020 on the Promods forum. The question was a request for the map projection parameters Promods say SCS changed with
the release of v1.30 and which I couldn't find anywhere documented. I got the long answer that Promods team also haven't got ANY knowledge
about projection parameters to use, so they simply took SCS background map image and then "cheated" to get their own data within the country
borders. For those interested in what Mandelsoft said exactly, can read his post here: https://www.promods.net/viewtopic.php?p=293910#p293910
To read the full discussion over at the Promods forum look here: https://www.promods.net/viewtopic.php?p=293675#p293675

Now, what Promods has done I have shown earlier, but the following image shows the difference between SCS ORIGINAL BG map and the Promods
own BG, which they must have included in their release to cover the oddities in their data. Note that for the UK area Promods have on purpose
kept the display in UI maps in the scale of 1:15, so there the difference is huge, as SCS rescales their data on the fly. Here's the image.


You have to click on image to get full size, so you can see the differences! Look for the PURE blue color!
What you can see there is that Promods has "cheated" around Bilbao, Barcelona the Adriatic and Aegan Sea coastlines, also Crete! What reason
they had to move the very northern Scandinavia upwards is written in the skies, I think.

When it comes to my own UNIVERSAL BGs here in the first post, I have said before, that I HATE to use force on the reality, "cheating" as Promods
calls it! In spite of that, I had to do that in order to get the BG mods universal, when it came to the UK region, as SCS and Promods treat their
data in that area so differently. Also, for the benefit of being able to cover a much larger area than both of them, I have my own way of creating
the BG images, using SCS own specified data for it.

In the recent release of Promods v2.46 they have now relocated the Middle-East and Cyprus, which was announced, but for some reason in a
direction that is not suited for my creations. Therefore I now ask you, the users, what you think I should do, by creating a POLL for you to attend
to. You will have ONLY one vote, but you can CHANGE your mind during the period it runs. I hope you will help me out here! Thanks!

[Wombat Trucker]

Looks like the answer is pretty clear, please keep on making background maps for Promods as well as none Promods map combos.

[BenganJ]

@Wombat Trucker

NOPE, I will make the BGs UNIVERSAL, not one for mama, one for papa and one for their children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Arayas]

Can my grandma have one? pretty-please?