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Originally Posted by Verdun1916
That's why I said I wanted a GENERIC Northwest Europe map a bit bigger than the one already present in the stock game.
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Due to the way that maps are created, it's actually easier to create a map of real area of the world as to create a fictional map.
Most fictional maps in the game are probably maps of real parts of the world but scaled up or down. The exceptions are things like the online islands or the online mountains maps. But, they're probably very small because it takes time to create an original map rather than just importing satellite data.
Sadly, the fact that it's easiest to import STRM data, but hard to create maps "from scratch" or from historical documents means that some existing maps have errors in them, since there has been 70+ years of development, as well as changes to coastlines, river courses, and forest boundaries.
In particular, development and changes in physical geography make it impossible to make accurate period maps of places like China, the Netherlands, Indonesia, Hawaii, Philippines, or Rabaul.