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I just had a look on the world map in the graphic modus in Boinc. I think, the world map in there ist a little bit old. The map have to be more than 14 years old. There are still two Germanies on the map. I wondered a little bit, because the complete projects are newer than 14 years. And there are other Countries on it, that still does not exist any more in the shown borders.
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> I just had a look on the world map in the graphic modus in Boinc. I think, the
> world map in there ist a little bit old. The map have to be more than 14 years
> old. There are still two Germanies on the map. I wondered a little bit,
> because the complete projects are newer than 14 years. And there are other
> Countries on it, that still does not exist any more in the shown borders.
I thought we had fixed that but unfortunately not. It's our coastline data which is basically a huge array, so it's hard to just open it up in a text editor and take out which points are the national boundaries! We will obviously have to find an update for this.
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As you know Carl this "problem" is also existing in the CPDN client :-).
But that can wait!
Thx for the great work of the CDPN stuff.
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Does it really matter? I mean, the simulations run in the 19th century, when borders were considerably different. I think that as long as the coastlines of continents are correct the world map will give useful information.
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> > I just had a look on the world map in the graphic modus in Boinc. I
> think, the
> > world map in there ist a little bit old. The map have to be more than 14
> years
> > old. There are still two Germanies on the map. I wondered a little bit,
> > because the complete projects are newer than 14 years. And there are
> other
> > Countries on it, that still does not exist any more in the shown
> borders.
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> I thought we had fixed that but unfortunately not. It's our coastline data
> which is basically a huge array, so it's hard to just open it up in a text
> editor and take out which points are the national boundaries! We will
> obviously have to find an update for this.
This being Oxford, perhaps we should have the boundaries from 1910, or thereabouts.
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I'm pretty sure Tolu fixed this long ago, I remember him hand-editing the East/West Germany borders in the coastline data (too bad political boundary disputes aren't as painless to resolve!)
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> I'm pretty sure Tolu fixed this long ago, I remember him hand-editing the
> East/West Germany borders in the coastline data (too bad political boundary
> disputes aren't as painless to resolve!)
Not that is matters too much but Czechoslovakia ('till 1993) just east of Germany is still present on a map...even in a brand new alpha-test...
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In addition to the map, I thought the offscale (white-hotspots) issue had been resolved in the screen saver. However, this buglet still exists in the software. Maybe Tolu's patches somehow were forgotten?...
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and the soviet union is still alive :-(
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