[WIP] Aetherworld Map: Water flows up mountains too, right? Help with Rivers.

[wittyoctopus]

Yes officer, *hangs head in shame*. I think I left my license and registration at the house.

[Hai-Etlik]

You didn't actually ask about this, but the shape of your planet is even more impossible than your rivers.

First, your latitudes go past 90° in both directions. Now, there is sort of a way of interpreting it, as going on pas the pole and down the other side. So 100° N 60° E would end up at 80° N 120° W. Obviously, we don't generally make maps like this though and your map doesn't show the rotated copy of the map this would produce so it can't be a sphere. Maybe a torus would work?

You have drawn meridians and parallels as equally spaced straight lines which would normally mean you are using a Plate Carree projection, except the numbering on them is different. So it's an Equidistant Cylindrical projection but the meridians are actually more spaced out than the parallels, so the projection surface off in space (nonsecant) rather than touching the surface (tangent) or cutting through it (secant) as is normally the case. This is never used in practice because it just adds distortion, the places where the projection touches/cuts the surface are where distortion is minimized, and the further apart they are, the more distortion there is.

If we assume that it is in some form of equidistant cylindrical projection, and that the labeling is off. Then it doesn't display the horizontal distortion that the projection would produce. Also, a compass rose isn't appropriate for such projections as they do not preserve compass bearings. It'd probably work better if you re-interpreted it as being in Mercator projection by just swapping out the graticules. The only real problem there is that you might not reach the climates you are after unless you posit that the overall climate is cooler and so cold climates extend further south.

If you want a Mercator graticule, you can get one here: http://hai-etlik.deviantart.com/art/...ines-176848667 or if you prefer rhumb lines http://hai-etlik.deviantart.com/art/...ines-176848667 they would also be appropriate for a Mercator map.