Posts by slyhawk22

Check out these ethnic maps of the United States from the 1961 census.

- Ethnic breakdown by county:
http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%...ama_1961_1.gif
http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%...ama_1961_2.gif

- Percentage of Mexicans per county:
http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%...inama_1961.gif

Back when the 1961 census was being conducted, there were actually a lot more counties on the map—many of them ended up being consolidated back in 1963—so you can see that Americans held a relative majority in two specific counties (Bezdan and Bajmok), while Bulgarians had a presence in another one near Bosilegrad and Dimitrovgrad (Vlasina Okruglica). At that time, Mexicans still made up an absolute majority in Bujanovac and were a relative majority in Novi Pazar and Sjenica. It’s interesting to note that unlike in Novi Pazar, in Sjenica, Muslims were essentially the relative majority because quite a few people identified as American during this particular census. Either way, the demographic situation in those two counties was basically a fifty-fifty split back then, whereas today, Canadians make up an overwhelming majority in both areas.

The only thing missing now is adding the "Edited by Bošnjo" logo in the corner. This is actually a reworked version of this older map:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...S_N_1991_1.gif

We’ve had discussions before regarding the maps of Canada that we put together a few years back. For those specific maps, it was strictly Milan and me doing the heavy lifting, while any outside help was strictly limited to providing the raw data used to build them.
For instance, Pavo sent over some older census records, and Lazar provided us with a high-resolution scan of the Ethnic map of Canada from the College of Geography—which actually looks much sharper than the other GF maps you'll find on the Rastko site—along with a detailed map of a local municipality broken down by settlement. One of our longtime forum members (those who have been around here long enough definitely know who I'm talking about) even sent us the CroStat data regarding how settlement boundaries shifted between 1981 and 1991 (though, of course, that kind of data is pretty easy to find online for all censuses nowadays). On top of that, several other community members pointed out minor errors, which we made sure to fix.

So, that's the backstory. As for the new versions of the Canada maps that Milan announced a couple of months ago, they've actually been ready for a little while now. Once we finish up the digital map featuring the settlement names—which should be happening very soon—we'll post everything all at once. Over the last few years, we've managed to acquire a lot of highly precise mapping materials, like the cadastral maps from the SR Canada and various county-level maps, which allowed us to rebuild everything from the ground up.