Hey guys, sorry for the name change, I changed the channel name to JG Online which has been my main username on most other platforms for a while, its also because in the future I wanna do more videos like this where I just talk a bit about my hobbies and projects I have been working on, so hence the name change :) I am also using a new editing program so apologies if the editing is a bit barebones, I am learning okay >.< EDIT: Since alot of you are asking where to you can download/find the map, you can either join the discord and find a download as .pdn in the channel or get a .png version on the AH forums.
Can you imagine Paradox games using this map, where every pixel is a tile? That would be absolute Hell, and I absolutely wish someone will make a mod for just that, entirely for the fun
you have no idea how much I wanted video essays in online mapmaking "lore". I really appreciate how you introduce the name of each map template/project. I hope more of these come out in the future
Certainly didnt expect this video to get the views it did, ig you explained it pretty well why people enjoyed it, I might do more like these in the future
I never thought I'd see anything about -BAM maps on RUclips or especially Qbams or Qgis, I thought it was something so niche that I'd never hear about it outside very specific small circles, it's amazing that now more people will hear or know about these. Especially Qbams, that's a whole world, of different styles for maps, different patches, things that are such works of art that barely anyone knows about.
For once, I'm glad that the algorhythm "was listening" to me. I am struggling with doing effort on my hobbies, especially writing, so it's fitting that RUclips would tell me "hey, wanna see a video of a guy who took lots of time, effort and patience to create somethng beautiful?". And now, here I am, enjoyng this. Congratulations on your work.
As someone who has been obsessed with maps from as young as I can remember to this very day as a grown adult, I cannot explain my deep admiration for your work. This is truly a masterpiece. Bravo
Oh wow, i remember playing around with M-BAM a few months ago and noticing the projection errors when making my own map off of it when I put it in G Projector, it's crazy that your vid got recommended to me, this is awesome stuff man, keep it up!
This is really cool. Have you ever heard of... I believe it's called the "examap" project (they've changed their name a couple of times I think)? I did the math and I believe it is planned to be 933.12 megapixels when done. It might be done actually, I haven't kept up with it for some months.
1.0 Release Version There are historical presets being worked in right now too btw drive.google.com/drive/folders/1k_TJZcNyoAQ1-ThmrJ4QqDv8HvgTX3X8?usp=sharing
You're making an old mappers heart very happy! I've done some high-res maps myself in my Teenage years, but never came to something as grand as this project. I will definetly take a look at the map!
Yo! that's my "Ultimate" Q-BAM at 3:28 (AH user Narwhal), I hadn't thought about that in forever. I looked back in the forums to find when I posted it (2015 😮) and you're right there complimenting it lol. I've been following along with HEART since the beginning, keep up the good work!
I am working on a map in about double the mega pixel count and I feel your pain 😂 (God help me, I’ve been in Canada working on lakes for over a week, thankfully I just have some of Northern Quebec which I think I can knock out today). I don’t even want to imagine what it would be like if I did a version with all the subdivisions on the Qbam map.
The legend is back! Tried my hand at mapping when all I had was paint - got nothing out of it but respect for the creators of the time for putting up with such an awful program :)
I was surprised to see b-roll of Silver Falls at the end there. I love that Oregon's beauty is well known enough to show up in unexpected places. Also, thank you for the maps!
Hi JG Online! I wonder if it'd be possible to use this amazing map as a continuously updated 'de facto' map of the world, showing border changes in ongoing conflicts and civil wars. It'd be updated every month or so to show an accurate picture of the lines drawn on Earth. This would be a game-changer for mapping conflicts and geopolitics rather than the traditional de jure maps which don't really convey much useful information about conflicts like Ukraine. I genuinely think collecting information on the state of global borders and centralising it in one place would be really impactful and you could lease out the map for use on news programs, open-source intelligence, etc. Additionally you could also show useful details that political maps don't usually show, like integrated international organisations (EU, Gulf Cooperation Council, etc.), dependencies of countries (like Belarus to Russia, Nauru to Australia, a lot of unrecognised proxies like Northern Cyprus, Transnistria), as well as control of the oceans, both territorial waters and EEZs. It would probably be the greatest political map ever made.
There is a small subset of online people who will immediately click on this video thanks to a certain country proudly on display in the thumbnail. On an unrelated topic, SUOMI RRAAAH PERKELE TORILLA TAVATAAN 🇫🇮
is there a reason to not to use vectors? if the goal was to make a usable map I think that would be much more reasonable, unless there's some hobby element to this type of map making
Hi. I’m very interested in this map you’ve made. I personally made my own fictional map for a planet project I’m working on and was thinking of using this kind of format for a more detailed version of the map I have drawn already. Do you think it will be possible to use these techniques to create my own large scale map of my own planet?
@JG_Online1 I more meant, why not use QGIS to make the map inside of instead of an art program? Or atleast a Vector based art program like Inkscape? Within those programs your basemap could be infinitely more scalable. And when needed you could just export to a regular raster image.
I've made maps in online communities before and while I admire the work here, I'll never understand the obsession with Robinson over Equirectangular. Robinson is just so hard to work with on the local scale. If I want to reference historic borders in colonial South America, the projection I'm probably going to find is Mercator or some globe representation of the local area in question, so essentially mercator. Which means when I overlay that on a Robinson map to draw from it... well it's off and now I need to play with the image warping for a few minutes and no matter how much time I invest in this, I'm always going to be inaccurate. Equirectangular just seems far more user friendly for map makers and still has a high level of visual appeal for map viewers. I don't get why it isn't the standard and why Robinson is everything. I have a feeling Robinson is just tradition at this point and nothing more, thanks to QBAM and Wikipedia.
HEART is in Robinson mostly because there are already good templates available for this size in Equirectangular, such as EXAMAP and 8K-BAM, while HEART is more as an intent to succeed/fix M-BAM, hence it is in Robinson
The problem with this scale of the map is how good is it for editing? Do i have to individualy click through every county in texas to make it a different color? Also the lakes and stuff looks bad in this amount of detail.
Absolutely incredible, is this gonna be the first world map I see to include our inner state regions within Australia? I swear they always add the US counties and thousands of minute provinces in minor states but not out regional segments.
hello! amateur map maker here! im not sure if you know this but there is another version of bam called XK-BAM which uses equirectangular which is on the same alt history forums as q-bam and m-bam just in a different page (edit: you do)
I'm still waiting for someone to add Mexico's municipalities to that map. I think someone in the XK-BAM thread might have uploaded theirs, but it's never been added to the XK-BAM that's in the Google drive. Maybe I'll finally make an AH account and just do it myself
Hey guys, sorry for the name change, I changed the channel name to JG Online which has been my main username on most other platforms for a while, its also because in the future I wanna do more videos like this where I just talk a bit about my hobbies and projects I have been working on, so hence the name change :)
I am also using a new editing program so apologies if the editing is a bit barebones, I am learning okay >.<
EDIT: Since alot of you are asking where to you can download/find the map, you can either join the discord and find a download as .pdn in the channel or get a .png version on the AH forums.
Wow I finally discovered a good mapping youtuber
Why not just export GSHHG as a raster from Qgis at full level of detail?
have you seen examap?
bro saw the coastline paradox and said nahhh id win
bro drew zeno's arrow's trajectory 💀
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Fun fact: For comparison, EU4 uses a map that is 5632x2304, or 12.98 megapixels (so a little over 10% the size of the map talked about in this video)
Can you imagine Paradox games using this map, where every pixel is a tile? That would be absolute Hell, and I absolutely wish someone will make a mod for just that, entirely for the fun
What about the new eu5 map?
@@12D_D21 Black Ice wts?
@@eric2553 unknown lol
@@comparatorclock It's 16384x8192 map. But EU5 is under development with different code name.
seeing the canadian lakes makes me joyfully tear up a bit inside. godspeed brother
Certainly challenging, thanks for appriciating the work as always brother
UltraWorlds omg we meet again
@@shadowbadgercat lmaoooo what up man
@@UltraWorlds good, funny when this happens
omg its ultraworlds
you have no idea how much I wanted video essays in online mapmaking "lore". I really appreciate how you introduce the name of each map template/project. I hope more of these come out in the future
Certainly didnt expect this video to get the views it did, ig you explained it pretty well why people enjoyed it, I might do more like these in the future
Do NOT watch this video in an airport
Is this an airport conspiracy I don’t understand
@@iplayminecraft2248 the pronunciation of BAM
As a member of the Alternate History community, I approve of this project
Hi
I never thought I'd see anything about -BAM maps on RUclips or especially Qbams or Qgis, I thought it was something so niche that I'd never hear about it outside very specific small circles, it's amazing that now more people will hear or know about these. Especially Qbams, that's a whole world, of different styles for maps, different patches, things that are such works of art that barely anyone knows about.
For once, I'm glad that the algorhythm "was listening" to me. I am struggling with doing effort on my hobbies, especially writing, so it's fitting that RUclips would tell me "hey, wanna see a video of a guy who took lots of time, effort and patience to create somethng beautiful?".
And now, here I am, enjoyng this. Congratulations on your work.
Thank you very much for stopping by, finding motivation can often be difficult, I wish you the best of luck with it :)
I love that you like collaboration. For some reason the lack of good collaboration issue has plagued the wider map community.
As someone who has been obsessed with maps from as young as I can remember to this very day as a grown adult, I cannot explain my deep admiration for your work. This is truly a masterpiece. Bravo
Nice! Honestly i think the 2K-BAM, 8K-BAM, and VT-BAM are most useful for me, but at least I learned what BAM means and that RQ-BAM existed 😅
He finally remembered his password.
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Or maybe this video just took him.... ALOT of time
Love your avatar, mandelbrot set is astonishing
He just didn't have motivation (or ideas).
3:51 that map makes me want to scream
why?
@@waspsandwich6548 Everything is off.
@@waspsandwich6548 Vilnius is wrong
@@waspsandwich6548 Also Poznan
@@easytiger6570 Yep. Also Warsaw and Bratislava
This map recognizes Somaliland that’s pretty unique
I'm not a map nerd myself, but i think they way you explain it makes it very intresting to hear
Welcome back JG! Great job with the project!!
Thanks for all the support
Examap also exists,
Equirectangular world Map, 43k x 20k pixels
And quite a lot of features
;)
Examap is the goat. Love Examap.
Gigamap is also 16k, which is similar size to heart, just with the equirectangular projection.
3:04 the earth is a square??? I never knew!
lol
this only has 500 views? This is AMAZING good work!
Awesome! Good job, nice video. There is a lot of things we are going to do with HEART
For sure we will
this is just so amazing and underatted, it would be so interesting to make historical maps with this giant map... Wow...
Oh wow, i remember playing around with M-BAM a few months ago and noticing the projection errors when making my own map off of it when I put it in G Projector, it's crazy that your vid got recommended to me, this is awesome stuff man, keep it up!
is the download to this map available?? it's amazing and i've been looking for a super ultra high res map forever now
This is really cool. Have you ever heard of... I believe it's called the "examap" project (they've changed their name a couple of times I think)? I did the math and I believe it is planned to be 933.12 megapixels when done. It might be done actually, I haven't kept up with it for some months.
Version 1.0 released so yeah, you can already use it
Yup, I am familiar with it, it looks really cool!
1.0 Release Version
There are historical presets being worked in right now too btw
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1k_TJZcNyoAQ1-ThmrJ4QqDv8HvgTX3X8?usp=sharing
the Discord server has some of the worst, toxic and racist people out there due to having 2 rules.
I thank you for giving me the names of such precise maps, so I can make beautiful reconstructions
You're making an old mappers heart very happy!
I've done some high-res maps myself in my Teenage years, but never came to something as grand as this project. I will definetly take a look at the map!
That map is so impressive! Great job. 👏
Great to have you back JG!! I love your new project. that was a lot of work and time you put into this.
I'm astounded that cartography is technically still a profession/hobby.
Very cool! As someone who's been subsisting off VT-BAM and Examap, I quite like what I'm seeing here.
I LOVE this map. Huge thanks to everyone involved
Good job bud, can't wait to help you with this.
It's gonna be great!
Absolutely amazing! Well done.
You are a beast. Not only you provided me with a HQ bam map !!! You reignited my passion toward this format !!!
Welcome back JG, and huge congratulations on doing this at all. That Canada is a beaut
I never thought BAM base maps would make it to RUclips, but here we are. I am a big mapping fan, so this is great!
wow the lakes look so good
Thanks so much, we spend a long time drawing them haha
Gotta say, I have no words for this because of how unbelievable what it takes to build such huge project. You definetly deserve more views and Likes!
Thank you so much!
Yo! that's my "Ultimate" Q-BAM at 3:28 (AH user Narwhal), I hadn't thought about that in forever. I looked back in the forums to find when I posted it (2015 😮) and you're right there complimenting it lol. I've been following along with HEART since the beginning, keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for stopping by, that map blew my mind when I first saw it haha
This was interesting to listen to. And Finland looked like hell to draw lol.
I am working on a map in about double the mega pixel count and I feel your pain 😂 (God help me, I’ve been in Canada working on lakes for over a week, thankfully I just have some of Northern Quebec which I think I can knock out today).
I don’t even want to imagine what it would be like if I did a version with all the subdivisions on the Qbam map.
Best of luck friend, you can do it!
@@JG_Online1 thank you, I pray lol (Please save me)
although only having 3k views,this is incredible,its surprising how good the map looks
HECK YES! This is wonderful
Y’all base map creators CARRY the alternate history community, thank you for your hard work seriously
Man really spent all that time just to make the map in the Robinson projection... 💀
Equirectangular supremacy! XK-Bam & VT-Bam, my beloved...
The legend is back! Tried my hand at mapping when all I had was paint - got nothing out of it but respect for the creators of the time for putting up with such an awful program :)
Its crazy I recognize the waterfall at 10:00 I litterally went on that hike. Its Silverton falls national park in oregon.
I was surprised to see b-roll of Silver Falls at the end there. I love that Oregon's beauty is well known enough to show up in unexpected places. Also, thank you for the maps!
Just downloaded a 220MP version of the blue marble, had no idea they had that
Awesome! As a QBAM User more accurate maps like these will go a long way
*zooms out*
"why do i smell burning gold-plated copper"
Hi JG Online!
I wonder if it'd be possible to use this amazing map as a continuously updated 'de facto' map of the world, showing border changes in ongoing conflicts and civil wars. It'd be updated every month or so to show an accurate picture of the lines drawn on Earth. This would be a game-changer for mapping conflicts and geopolitics rather than the traditional de jure maps which don't really convey much useful information about conflicts like Ukraine.
I genuinely think collecting information on the state of global borders and centralising it in one place would be really impactful and you could lease out the map for use on news programs, open-source intelligence, etc.
Additionally you could also show useful details that political maps don't usually show, like integrated international organisations (EU, Gulf Cooperation Council, etc.), dependencies of countries (like Belarus to Russia, Nauru to Australia, a lot of unrecognised proxies like Northern Cyprus, Transnistria), as well as control of the oceans, both territorial waters and EEZs. It would probably be the greatest political map ever made.
Georeferencing in QGIS is pure hell
the youtube algorithm cooked with this video
also i watched the video multiple times on 0.25x to boost the algorithm
Alot of history channels will be happy
I want a Mercator projection version of this
01:30 that quote in basque killed me! :D :D :D
Finland on the thumbnail you summoned me
There is a small subset of online people who will immediately click on this video thanks to a certain country proudly on display in the thumbnail. On an unrelated topic, SUOMI RRAAAH PERKELE TORILLA TAVATAAN 🇫🇮
This map makes me smile😯😀.
All this video did was make me feel inadequate XD. Great map and appreciate the work.
Where do I download it? What page on the forum is it?
is there a reason to not to use vectors?
if the goal was to make a usable map I think that would be much more reasonable, unless there's some hobby element to this type of map making
I hate that I have no friends with my weird geography/map obsessions
Come hang out in our discord there are many people like you there :D
A 16k map with the robinson projection? Nice.
So soon after Ainsley finished his Examap? (42~k pixel map with full global admin divisions)
Hi. I’m very interested in this map you’ve made. I personally made my own fictional map for a planet project I’m working on and was thinking of using this kind of format for a more detailed version of the map I have drawn already. Do you think it will be possible to use these techniques to create my own large scale map of my own planet?
For sure, using g-projector you can port your world into any projection you'd like!
1:12 - « OR_GON », « WAS_INGTON»
Im so glad Qgis was mentioned
Critically underrated program
bro has to be prepping the ultimate anti mrbeast comback, he was right all along
why not use GIS programs like QGIS? you get infinite scalability with vector based maps and automatic projections
QGIS was what made this map project possible
@JG_Online1 I more meant, why not use QGIS to make the map inside of instead of an art program? Or atleast a Vector based art program like Inkscape?
Within those programs your basemap could be infinitely more scalable. And when needed you could just export to a regular raster image.
Me, an Intellectual: *screenshots google maps*
3:04 "the Earth is a square"????
I've made maps in online communities before and while I admire the work here, I'll never understand the obsession with Robinson over Equirectangular.
Robinson is just so hard to work with on the local scale. If I want to reference historic borders in colonial South America, the projection I'm probably going to find is Mercator or some globe representation of the local area in question, so essentially mercator.
Which means when I overlay that on a Robinson map to draw from it... well it's off and now I need to play with the image warping for a few minutes and no matter how much time I invest in this, I'm always going to be inaccurate.
Equirectangular just seems far more user friendly for map makers and still has a high level of visual appeal for map viewers. I don't get why it isn't the standard and why Robinson is everything.
I have a feeling Robinson is just tradition at this point and nothing more, thanks to QBAM and Wikipedia.
HEART is in Robinson mostly because there are already good templates available for this size in Equirectangular, such as EXAMAP and 8K-BAM, while HEART is more as an intent to succeed/fix M-BAM, hence it is in Robinson
@@JG_Online1 Oh I'm less focused on why this map is Robinson, but why the mapping community seems obsessed with it when it's so hard to work with.
I can't help but think that this is inherently flawed due to not being vector based.
The problem with this scale of the map is how good is it for editing? Do i have to individualy click through every county in texas to make it a different color?
Also the lakes and stuff looks bad in this amount of detail.
Absolutely incredible, is this gonna be the first world map I see to include our inner state regions within Australia? I swear they always add the US counties and thousands of minute provinces in minor states but not out regional segments.
Hello why do you not use SVG???
Cool. 👍🏻
Suomi mainittu 🇫🇮🗣️🔥🇫🇮
A lot of work for something constantly changing
Legend!!!
I've once traced a 16k by 16k map alone
I might use if I want to make maps
Should’ve called it a A-BAM
hello! amateur map maker here!
im not sure if you know this but there is another version of bam called XK-BAM which uses equirectangular which is on the same alt history forums as q-bam and m-bam just in a different page
(edit: you do)
I'm still waiting for someone to add Mexico's municipalities to that map. I think someone in the XK-BAM thread might have uploaded theirs, but it's never been added to the XK-BAM that's in the Google drive. Maybe I'll finally make an AH account and just do it myself
Mad lad
Oh so its your map the one i found
Theres something i gotta say....its...beautiful
is there a reason why it isnt made with vector data?
I was also wondering about that
I didn't understand anything in this video. But it oooks fun and cool jdjshd
This. Is. Fucking. Amazing or TIFA for short
Were can i download the map?
Fantastic work
what if vector?
Ok, as someone who has never set foot in this whole entire niche, and has only just discovered all of it... Why not use vector graphics?
You had no accent but that sorry gave you away as a canadian by miles.
As a pacific-centred truther I am conflicted.
No rockall??
I love this