I've taken over management of the United States Big map. I know of few areas to clean up but am looking for other suggestions. If you know of a messed up link, bonus problem, or have any other comment; now's the time to let me know.

There appears to be a permanent **wasteland** in a small area between Virginia & Maryland. Can you see if you can fix that? :-)

10 major cities as 1 bonuses would be cool. last time i checked, us had a navy. adding the sea would be nice. rocky mountains? mississippi river? adding geographical features would make it more realistic and strategic

Although in most of the states (where there are multiple bonuses) the sum of bonuses is equal to the total number of territories in Ohio it is 78 vs 88.

Chautauqua County, NY, and Warren County, PA, are completely missing. Also, there are 21 counties named "Unnamed".

Virginia is currently almost impossible to take due to the influx of tiny cities throughout it. They can't fit even single digit armies and make it a very, very confusing state to try and conquer.

**Green Lake** territory in **Wisconsin** belongs to **Southern Wyoming** instead of **Southern Wisconsin**.

Yes, +1 about Virginia. If you wish to make this map better, kill the cities in it. First, they are difficult to take; second, if you actually manage it, you get enormous bonus for the entire state.

Also, Southern Wyoming bonus includes a sigle territory from... Wisconsin. (Select it and see.)

alaska and hawaii are missing

also, missouri is not and has never been a state

"alabama" should be "alabamy"

+1 about Virginia. What a mess. Should lose all of those cities, cut the number of territories in half or something. I always stay away from there because of it.

Off topic (sort of), I have always thought a Congressional districts map would be a good middle ground map between whole states versus all the counties. Depending on if you leave out AK and HI it would be on the scale of 500ish territories. Also would make for some crazy territory borders in those states where jerrymandering has gone out of control. Could actually be a series of maps from every ten years as districts are redrawn after the census/lawsuits.

It would put a US map on the scale of the Asia map which many folks like.

IF I had the time or skills, I would give it a try, but alas...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/US_Congressional_Districts_color.svg

If you were drawing territories from that map, then I say you'd be finished in one, maybe two days (working from dawn to dusk).
I may think about doing it after I'll finish big map that's being made now :)

Gunz - Thank you for cleaning up this map. I cannot remember all of the issues I have faced. I will add on to what Segrain said about the Green Lake territory in Wisconsin and ask if it could be one of the first things to be fixed if possible. I believe that some territories in the Southeast had the issue of a missing connection or two and would guess that they might be in Georgia and Kentucky, but I might be incorrect. In any case, thanks again for doing this. :)

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Issander - That does look like a good map, but it seems to soon be outdated. I counted Michigan's Districts at 15 from that map. However, Michigan has lost one district due to a decrease in the population of people living in Michigan in the 2010 census. I believe this is the current plan for how it will be redivided in Michigan, though it might be changed due to challenges due to possible gerrymandering:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/the-fix/StandingArt/MichiganProposed.jpg?uuid=YKdQypuCEeCxG385yZuJEA

While that map could still be used, its name might need to reflect that in some way if possible. I thought I would mention it in case someone does try it.

After looking at the district maps I am less thrilled with the idea. Mostly it is an issue of different territories of radically different scales on the same map. Each district is approximately the same population, so they are teeny tiny in populated areas and huge in rural areas. There would have to be a lot of zooming in and out to really play it well. Bit of an aesthetic/playability negative. Labeling could be a huge issue too. Might work as a way to draw superbonuses on a state level map.

Won't know till someone makes it I suppose.

Personally, I think that it would be more appropiate to be fixing the map, as opposed to entirely changing it to a new layout.. that should be in a seperate slot..

that being said +1 to virginia.. not because it is difficult to take, but because it is done in an *entirely different format* then the rest of the map. It should all have cities, or no cities at all

The addition of geographic functions would give it a nice balance throughout, rather then just being a huge glob of territories.
Sea links Imho, would change the map too much beyond what it was originally created for; although, duplicating the SVG and then making a more complete US Big map, including Alaska and Hawaii, with sea links throughout, or even re-making the idea with a new design with sea links I would highly encourage..



Gui, the US's possibility of a navy is irrelevant to the creation of maps.. If I play the europe map.. I could play it duplicating 2011, or I could play it duplicating 1121.. the addition of too many sea links limits the possibilities that the map could realisticly take into effect.. and you must keep in mind the time frames.. adding sea links would require many sea links to keep time-frames in mind.. consider how long it would take a M1 division to go through a state, clearing out any resistance inhabitants, then compare it to how long it would take a BB group to head through a certain section of water ensuring that there wasn't any resitance to be removed, and/or removing it.

Perrin, not sure, but I don't think that VA is different, per se. Aren't the "cities" in that bonus technically "independent regions", ie not affiliated with any county? Although when playing that map I never ever consider taking VA, not efficient and god dang annoying.

but each state throughout the map is seperated by county, and those counties are seperated into bonuses, to make each a relevant size and generally a solid shape. The larger ones are reduced slightly to make a super-bonus relevant for each state. the cities bonus follows neither of those rules, and make VA completely different then the rest of the map because of it..

Imho, it seems like the creator was thinking about adding in cities throughou, made it in VA, was testing it out, and then went Awol, leaving us with what we currently see..
as I stated before.. imho, it should be all states with cities, or none..

Perrin, TXJohn's right. Virginia's 39 independent cities are county-equivalents. The United States has 3,143 counties and "county-equivalents". Alaska has 29 (18 boroughs and 11 census areas), Hawaii has 5, and the lower 48 has 3,109. The US Big WL map has 3,107 territories because it is inexplicably missing 2 counties in NY and PA along Lake Erie (Chautauqua, NY, and Warren, PA).

If you want to eliminate the 42 independent cities, I certainly understand, their small size does make them quite annoying (though no more annoying than New York's boroughs, or some of the small consolidated city-counties like Broomfield, CO, or San Francisco, CA). But I don't understand why you think the creator began adding cities then quit, since all 42 independent cities in the US are included (39 in VA, the other 3 being St Louis, MO, Baltimore, MD, and Carson City, NV).

See [this US County SVG map](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/USA_Counties.svg) or read about [county-equivalents](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(United_States)).