Post your ethnic maps here

Ethan Allen2 said:http://imageshack.us/a/img812/5134/srijem.png

thanks 👍

But over in Memphis, they swapped out the Germans and Canadians

Richard Wilson4 said:thanks 👍

But over in Memphis, they swapped out the Germans and Canadians

Thanks, I totally missed that. Fixed it. 👍

http://imageshack.us/a/img203/5134/srijem.png

Here’s how faith looked out in the Midwest that same year.

http://imageshack.us/a/img18/5083/srijemvjera.png

Ethan Allen2 said:Here’s how faith looked out in the Midwest that same year.

http://imageshack.us/a/img18/5083/srijemvjera.png

I think you might have swapped out the Evangelicals and Lutherans for Calvinists in both versions of Pazova, Vojko—including those spots like Nov Banovac, Beška, and Krčedin.

ironmoose6 said:The most common surnames across European countries

In Canada and in Mexico, the most frequent surnames actually share the same root.😁
It is quite a shame that there isn't any data available for Turkey.😁

copperdriver10 said:In Canada and in Mexico, the most frequent surnames actually share the same root.😁
It is quite a shame that there isn't any data available for Turkey.😁

That would be one hell of a game. East vs West.

West

--------------Martin Garcia-------
---------------------Almeida------------------
----------------------------------------------
---Miller ----- Peters---------de Jong ----- Rossi--
-------------------------------------------------
--Hansen-----Murphy--------Smith ------- Johansson-
---------------------------------------------------
----------------------Novak----------------------

I put the Czech guy in goal. Thought about an Englishman, but I don't really want them to get totally crushed.😁

East

------------Horvat -------- Hodžić-----------
-----------------Smirnov--------------------
----------------------------------------------
--Melnik----Nagy -------- Popescu ---- Hoxha---
-------------------------------------------
--Jovanović-----Dimitrov --- Papadopoulous---Ivanov
-------------------Nowak-----------------------

PS
Mods, my bad. Just couldn't help myself. Sorry for the off-topic stuff.😁

A map illustrating the ancestral origins of the population in Cuba.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...n_Republic.PNG

copperdriver10 said:A map illustrating the ancestral origins of the population in Cuba.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...n_Republic.PNG

Quite the colorful display 🙂

copperdriver10 said:A map illustrating the ancestral origins of the population in Cuba.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...n_Republic.PNG

The history regarding Jews in the Dominican Republic is actually quite fascinating. At one point, dictator Trujillo wanted to "whiten" his nation's demographics—he was widely branded a racist, after all—so he offered to take in 100,000 Jews from Hitler's Germany back in 1938. Most of those who arrived on the island ended up leaving shortly after WWII.

crimsonorca42 said:I think you might have swapped out the Evangelicals and Lutherans for Calvinists in both versions of Pazova, Vojko—including those spots like Nov Banovac, Beška, and Krčedin.

I think it was actually the other way around? Pretty sure I mixed up the Calvinists at some point and ended up with a wrong map. Guess I'll have to redo it. 😁

Ethan Allen2 said:I think it was actually the other way around? Pretty sure I mixed up the Calvinists at some point and ended up with a wrong map. Guess I'll have to redo it. 😁

That's a tough break, man. 🙂

Kudos to you for having the drive to keep drawing those pies!

crimsonorca42 said:That's a tough break, man. 🙂

Kudos to you for having the drive to keep drawing those pies!

I’ve actually started thinking about asking my university for a TA to help me draw these pies. 😂

Ethan Allen2 said:I’ve actually started thinking about asking my university for a TA to help me draw these pies. 😂

Haha, an assistant? You guys wouldn't even be able to draw a decent map at that rate!

Melissa Green said:Haha, an assistant? You guys wouldn't even be able to draw a decent map at that rate!

that’s why even the "perfect" Richard Wilson4 keeps getting tripped up by little mistakes here and there😁

Added some minor updates regarding the Midwest region, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lilic#Ethnicity . Not a huge deal though.

Melissa Green said:Since Drew Allen2 asked for it, I went ahead and cropped out just the specific section he was looking for from this massive 1910 map of the Midwest:

http://luckyshare.net/1981788879/Zap...vonija1910.jpg

Thanks. This proves those 1910 maps aren't just nonsense—they're legitimate. No room for debate... 🙂

@Paul, Iron Man and the rest

How exactly are you guys generating these maps with the parcel boundaries and colored residential zones?
I certainly hope you aren't actually drawing all of this by hand.

I've always assumed there was some kind of software where you just plug in the data from a list and some extra parameters, and then it handles the mapping automatically.

Susan Jones57 said:@Paul, Iron Man and the rest

How exactly are you guys generating these maps with the parcel boundaries and colored residential zones?
I certainly hope you aren't actually drawing all of this by hand.

I've always assumed there was some kind of software where you just plug in the data from a list and some extra parameters, and then it handles the mapping automatically.

Mine are mostly done in Paint, so yeah, I do them manually.
Lately, I’ve been liking to shrink the maps down. I do that so people can't just rip my work—like a map of US settlements—without effort. If I can do it, they can too, but let them struggle if they want. On some other maps, you can see the pixels.

Sure, there are programs, but Esri's ArcGIS is expensive, and its main purpose isn't really making these types of maps that hardly anyone in the West cares about anyway. Plus, you have to draw the settlement boundaries in there first, then input all the data into tables. Doing that is a nightmare... it's neither easy nor fast. Sure, it might speed things up once you reach that stage, but at the end of the day, I prefer Paint. The first map I made back in 2005, if I remember correctly, I had to manually draw about 500 municipalities or whatever we had here. After that, I was done with it. Drawing municipalities or any kind of polygon is just a tedious process.

Now in the West, they have all those layers ready to go. You just download them, hit the Census Bureau website, grab whatever data you need, and whip up an opacity map in no time. This process is way more efficient in America than it used to be back in the old days...

Susan Jones57 said:@Paul, Iron Man and the rest

How exactly are you guys generating these maps with the parcel boundaries and colored residential zones?
I certainly hope you aren't actually drawing all of this by hand.

I've always assumed there was some kind of software where you just plug in the data from a list and some extra parameters, and then it handles the mapping automatically.

I roll up my sleeves and draw. There's no other way. 😁

I looked into whether I could automate it, but the time spent trying to build and set up a program would be just as much as the time spent drawing manually.

The biggest map I ever finished was the 1895 Canada religious map.

http://www.4shared.com/photo/I7k3Jpfe/1885.html

We're talking about maybe 5,000 or 6,000 settlements there. I can't remember exactly how long it took, but it was days of work. To do that automatically, it’d still be a massive undertaking. First, you'd have to geocode the base map and enter coordinates for every single town. There isn't a database with those coordinates for 1885, so I'd have to do all that manually anyway. Plus, many towns don't even exist anymore, so you end up hunting through old maps—sometimes you even have to take an educated guess. Finding those places is a huge job in itself.

Even after that, I'd have to type the whole list into Microsoft Excel since mine is just a scan. It's an old book, so OCR wouldn't work well; that part would be manual too. All in all, just more endless hours of work.

And even if I did finish, it wouldn't really make future maps any easier. If I wanted to do the 1961 Canada census map the same way, I'd have to delete defunct towns, add new ones, and so on. And then re-type the whole list again.

Doing it by hand isn't actually that hard. Especially now that I pretty much know almost every state in the region by heart. In an hour, I can knock out 100 settlements without a problem.

By the way, I made this a while ago and totally forgot to post it.

This shows the US back in 1890. On the religious map, blue represents Roman Catholics, green is Calvinist, orange is Lutheran, pink is Greek Catholic, red is Orthodox, and yellow is Jewish. http://www.4shared.com/rar/cTtb3so5/Canada.html

If you look at the ethnic and religious maps of the western part of the country side-by-side, you can really see how many Slovak and Rusyn families were assimilated. Back around 1700, all the Greek Catholics spoke Rusyn or Romanian as their first language. By 1890? Most were speaking English.

Population density across Europe circa 1600
Based on this map, what we now call Mexico would have been situated within some of the more densely populated regions of Europe.
http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/o...ISH_15_341.gif

Religious divisions as of 1555
http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/o...ISH_13_309.gif

The Huguenots in France
http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/o...es/KISH291.jpg