Alternate History Timeline Map Editor
Note: equirectangular projection functionality has been incorporated into the main demo; consequently the original demo for it has been removed
Note: the startup and projection changing might be slow
You can also download some of the sample timelines and load them into the demo to play around
Possible uses
- Alternate history timeline making OFC ^_^
- Creating coloured maps in general with annotations, for say demographics and so on
Sample alternate history
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
Features
- Fast, simple, responsive
- Timeline autoplay/pause button (can be speeded up and down)
- Easy map timeline editing: added new dates come with its independent map inherited from previous time point
- Simple colouring in of map regions:
- Single region colouring
- Lasso selection colouring of multiple regions
- Choice of 2 base world maps: (custom base map upload in geojson format also supported)
- Countries
- First level administrative divisions of countries
- Automatically generated legend with editable labels
- Region info including country/provincial name (depending on base map) displayed upon mouse hover
- Range of map overlays
- Geographic
- Rivers
- Lakes
- Simple save/load of map timeline in json format (effectively text file)
Historic (Approximately) Scenarios
Disclaimer: The scenario maps are not intended to be historically exact nor do they represent personal views of the author. The maps are provided without any warranty of any kind whatsoever, either express or implied.
Click links to download scenarios; note certain browsers may open the files directly, in which case usually right click save-as will have the file downloaded
Note: some of the below gifs were recorded with older versions of the app; thus map appearance may differ now (regions though stay the same)
565-742AD: Death of Justinian I of Rome (Byzantine) to Beginning of the Tianbao Era - Peak of Tang
Extra Acknowledgements
- "map_admin.js", "map_nation.js", "lakes.js", "rivers.js" were modified from:
- Data source: Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com.
- Data transformed to geoJSON at https://geoconverter.hsr.ch/vector, provided by Geometa Lab at IFS HSR
- "mercator-topographic.jpg" made by Daniel R. Strebe; 08:03, 17 December 2011; retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercator_projection_Square.JPG"
- Link to license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
- Modifications made: trimmed white outer borders