World Background Maps

[3rik]

no it dosent. forget promods. ignore promods completely. imagine they dont exist. done?
ok now look at this photo.

look at this photo ^^
none of it has anything to do with promods.
the red map is SCS
the gray map is yours.
is promods there? no.
now, we agree that SCS uses the right projection, correct?
now look at that and notice that the projections dont allign
*gasp*
this means one of them must be wrong!
we already agreed that SCS is correct. this means your map is wrong.
now lets grow up and fix our mistakes!

[BenganJ]

@3rik

And where in the area where Middle-East or Cyprus is located in the red map has SCS ANY data?
That's where the differences start. You really have to study mate! Bye for now!

[3rik]

this is on a profile with NO mods WHATSOEVER.
you can clearly see the outline of the middle east on the bottom right. you cant zoom out further because scs blocks it, but the image is obviously there. give me a couple minutes and i will find a mod that lets you scroll further, then i can show you the rest of it.

[3rik]

Update: i have now added a mod that lets you zoom further away. it is still the same background image.
here you can clearly see the middle east on SCS's default map.


did you not look at the SCS map? how didnt you know this?

[BenganJ]

@3rik

You should be grateful that I have the patience I have, but do you see any bad placement of Istanbul there?
Run that modless profile with my PLAIN BG and you'll see that Istanbul is still in place! Don't mention the
Middle-East in SCS context, they are NOT there yet!

[3rik]

ok, i have loaded the DEFAULT MAP with NO MODS apart from your background map and....

oh look it dosent match

[BenganJ]

@3rik

In the vertical direction, YES, because SCS doesn't use their own map projection, as they
don't need that yet. It's probably an old Mercator projection from ancient times they still
use! And that is the real reason that Promods is out of line too!

BTW, are you here to set a new record for most posts during one single night?

[3rik]

it also dosent allign in the horizontal direction... istanbul is further east than the europe/asia border river, even though scs istanbul dosent enter asia.
anyway...
so now you are saying that scs is wrong? quit this bullshit. why do you think you are right all of the sudden?
You do not set the standard. SCS sets the standard.
i dont care what is more geographically correct. this is a game and the map mods need to follow one specific standard. that standard is the SCS standard.
you think that scs just randomly drew the middle east on to the map? no. they projected it just like the rest of the map. and it isnt just the middle east. look at the comparison image again. there are differences in scandinavia, russia etc too.
this also dosent explain why you lied to me and told me that scs have never provided data on the middle east. or did you never look?

you said somewhere that you are tired of people acting like its kindergarden, yet now you are here doing exactly that. grow up.

[3rik]

"BTW, are you here to set a new record for most posts during one single night?"

if it comes to that then i guess it shows that no one has ever had to have an argument this long.
make of that what you will.

[BenganJ]

@3rik

Well, as far as I have seen from you for now, you have very exact opinions on things you don't know a shit about!
Render a map from the parameters I've given you, then you can come back and tell me I'm totally wrong. I wish
you luck on that journey, mate! I'm fully aware of the fact that not ALL maps are possible to align to, but I've done
my best!