Asia is certainly looking quite tiny.

Размер более чем реалистичнй. Европа и Азия и есть такого размера. Берите глобус или проекцию Галла-Петерса и внимательно изучайте

нереалистичный размер европы и азии на гигансткой карте

Is there a particular reason there's like a dozen GBR tiles but no LV or MK?

If I had to guess, I'd say @Chief used the Lambert projection, which is indeed equal-area and accurate.

Hi @arc1791

What projection are you looking at other than a globe? Any 2D projection of a globe will seem distorted.

Here's a list of cylindrical equal-area projections that you're looking for, arc:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_cylindrical_equal-area_projection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behrmann_projection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo%E2%80%93Dyer_projection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection

So ridiculously biased against northern regions. Makes North America look tiny & Africa larger than all of Asia. Have you guys ever even seen a globe IRL? How can you pretend these are proportional?

looks good

@b4578
Just imagine that you are looking at the Earth from space and your are right above the equator.

oh my god, I hate maps that make china brazil and the USA larger than canada. but it's still a good map

@CloakedGem

That's because of how the Mercator projection (the kind used by most maps) works. It stretches out the Earth at the poles, making things closer to them seem much bigger.

The top half of the map kinda looks like it's been squeezed.

Gives you a sense of how small Europe really is, and how mind-boggling it is that this small continent came to establish empires across all the others.

Too bad Civ V doesn't allow even larger map sizes so that Europe, Hawaii, etc are more playable.

can you add an earth world map in small size? for those that don't want to wait 30 seconds per turn after industrial age? thanks!

Saudi Arabia isn't double the size of europe on this map... I'm looking on google earth, and while it's not perfect, this map is pretty accurate.

pretty sure Saudi Arabia is not roughly double the size of Europe.

a good Gall–Peters projection, but the Island area is too big and north Europe is not playable

why is there always someone that finds something to hate. I find it impressive that it is accurate down to the feature of the map like wonders, mountains, and stuff

Canada is smaller than Australia here.... you serious?

and Greenland isn't the size of australia! Yay!

Equal area. Of course, that means that going north-south is really easy when you aren't near the equator, and going west-east is very tough.

this is a wonderful map! its much more realistic than the other earth map you made, although i like the other one better, because this one looks about derpy (but ik thats because of the sphere-rectangle thing)

1 problem: the uk is really distorted xD

This looks great. Clearly many of the only commentors on here think that Mercator is an accurate representation of land area.

But I agree with Sole Song, that the next iteration of Civ should be spherical to make things really accurate.

Europe and Canada are like 6 tiles thick, but other than that it's cool :)

@Panik Thank you for the useless education on a site for gaming.

not realistic i think, Oceania looks way bigger than europe!

not realistic!! North America's The Great Lakes are horrorible looking and unrealistic!!

this map is so terrible i cant even let my anger out@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

There is only ONE map wich is true to size and that is a map placed on a sphere, often called a globus :-). A world map on anything else is bound to fail equal area.
What I dont understand is why a spinning sphere, globus, is not used now a days

Great realistic map. Good job!

@haters: If you don't understand what "realism" and "equal-area" means, don't bother commenting, you only make yourselves look stupid and uneducated. It's obviously not a map one could play with a dozen European civs and TSLs, but there are Europe and "enlarged-Europe" maps for that.

This is as accurate as it gets, when trying to draw a semi-spherical 3D planet on a rectangular 2D plane. Proper relative landmass of Africa is 2/3 (or 66%) of Asia, 4/3 (or 133%) of North America, 5/3 (or 166%) of South America, 3/1 (or 300%) of Europe and 7/2 (or 350%) of Australia.

no, its not perfect, europe is faaaaarrrrrrrrrrr to squesed

Perfect!!! Absolutely perfect

this map is terrible, use a robinson map, they good, this peice of crap bad

lol nicely done but Canada and Russia are virtually non-existant despite being the 2 largest land masses in the world

The geographer in me had a nerdgasm

Yay, none of this Mercater malarky. Greenland and Mexico are the same size as they should be!

;)

Yeah, my only wish would be that it was about 100 times bigger. Enough so that historic starting locations could support nations, rather than just cities before having to deal with other civs.

Wow, there are so many retards that play Civ. Author, I commend making an equal area map!!! For you other tards, read this: http://thedisorderofthings.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/africa-is-a-continent.jpg

This is a great map, I just wish the civ starting locations could be historically accurate?

@juha39 I would love to concentrate certain resources in certain areas of the map, but as of now I am no modder I am just a mapmaker. World Builder doesn't offer such a feature, but no doubt there is a way to do so in Modbuddy. If someone could briefly but thouroughly explain the secret on how to do that, not only will I fix it, but I will provide creds and kudos to whoever explains it in the description or the title of the new version.

What is wrong with you people? The reason why everything is so "thin" at the tops and bottoms is because you can't replicate a sphere onto a rectangle without distorting something.

@MrKawl - yep i do have OCD^^

This map creates a problem, game-wise. If played with historical starting locations, it has barely enough room in Europe for a single city for each civ, but good luck can create a single superpower with no enemies in starting game, like in Africa, China or Americas.
This is historical, but in other projections the problem is less obvious.
Otherwise, I am starting to like this projection more and more.
I was wondering if it has whales and fish around those little islands near the antarctic. Historically there was lots of whaling there, so it would be nice to have a 1 hex city there, with plenty of whales and fish. Enough for a struggling small-medium city, worth having for the resource monopoly but not much else.

Your other map is better.

Can you guys do the world a favor: READ THE COMMENTS BELOW BEFORE WRITING YOUR OWN STUPID COMMENTS!!! Yall think it helps but it does the exact opposite. I'm specifically pointing fingers at Captain Shitlord, who doesn't give 5 seconds of his valuable time to read any of the comments before writing his own. Whoever named him is a fucking genious.

P.S. hugs and kisses to those that support the map and to those that provide criticism that actually makes sense and is backed up by some sort of fact or opinion forged by hardcore thought and research.

Whats with Scandinavia and why is Russia so thin?

Wow every one is a critic. I think this earth map amazing; very accurate compared to any other earth maps, and if you don't try downloading SDK and make your own earth map and stop looking for and criticizing others to play on. Every critic just has to add their two cents. @Sikyanakotik Who gets offended over a map!!! Oh Canada! you don't have your own civ but your territory needs to be perfect. @Jax you must have OCD

@hchutch and others - sorry but actually this map IS wrong - Russia alone is 17 skm large, while whole afrika is 30.3 skm large.....this map is just a badly (just the northern parts) done peters projection

@author - if you try a preserved area map - a peters projection - the parts southern of the canadian border, the mediterranean sea and the land around that line are great - and while Europe and Russia are compressed in Peters projection, in relation to other maps, they are not compressed that much.....by far not...not at all.....