File talk:World98+.svg

This map is so wrong. In Morocco, distinct regions like Souss-Massa-Draa and Guelmim es-Semara appear joined for some reason. And Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia is totally incorrect. I totally inore the criteria of the creator. It could be the same for other countries. An immediate correction is needed. --Il Qathar (talk) 15:08, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Indian provinces are years old. British Subdivisions are unified into larger spaces. Serbia and Bosnia are depicted as single states. Sakhalin needs to be retouched. The map has more mistakes as it is more detailed. Its good otherwise. 49.249.193.238 16:10, 23 May 2014 (UTC) (Not logged in) F.I.

In addition to the mistakes pointed out since last time, I also made the following observations: Nunavut in Canada is missing. No administrative divisions defined in Armenia and Azerbaijan. I think it might be better for some experienced vector cartographers to go over this whole thing and make it accurate to today's borders. ~~

Just checked Nunavut and Krasnoyarsk Krai: Nunavut only separated from the Northern Territory in 1999 and the two autonomous oblasts Taymyr and Evenk which are shown as independent from Krasnoyarsk only joined it after 1998 as well.

Therefore I removed those two inaccuracy claims (since they clearly don't apply) and I'll see if I can find out whether the remaining ones are also related to border changes since 1998 or not.

I'm not an expert but those two claims were rather clearly related to border changes since 1998 and nothing else. --Zombie45764 (talk) 00:54, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

So, I checked all (remaining) claims on talk and in the notice and found some new mistakes (wrong countries/regions are fat):

Morocco: the map uses the old 1997 (not 1998) regions.

Mali: the map merges Tombouctou and Kidal into a big Gao region. However Kidal separated in 1991 and I have no info on whether Tombouctou was ever part of Gao.

Japan: instead of using prefectures (the official first-level administrative divisions, established by Emperor Meiji in the 19th century), it uses popular but unofficial regions. Also, Niigata prefecture is shown as part of Tōhoku rather than Chūbu - might be a variant but seems odd at least. (Kansai also uses the rarer name Kinki)

China: Tianjin is on the map. Chongqing is missing, however was only made a province in 1997. The coastline of Guangdong is wrong: the two islands of Macau were switched with another island and the main island of Hongkong seems to be misshapen. Macau is (correctly) part of Guandong in the svg.

Former USSR: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova and Armenia have no administrative divisions at all. Azerbaijan only has one instead of ten subdivisions: the exclave of Nakhchivan. The USSR dissolved in 1991. The remaining former members have subdivisions at least (but I don't know whether they are correct).

United Kingdom/Britain: correct, since the first-level divisons are the constituent states of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland plus the other territories.

Ireland: again uses traditional regions instead of official subdivisions

Former Yugoslavia: the separate countries (the Bosnian war ended 1995) of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia all lack administrative divisions. Serbia and Montenegro (which only split in 2005) is correct, since the two subdivisions are Serbia and Montenegro.

Sakhalin: the coastline seems to need slight fixing

I'm going to edit the template regarding the inaccuracies/missing stuff, so it's clear for potential editors which things are wrong and need fixing (and that those things are actually wrong as of 1998). --Zombie45764 (talk) 03:27, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Has anyone actually fixed this map yet? I can't find a fixed version and I am not good at editing either :^/ --Dragonman226 (talk) 12:36, 30 May 2017 (UTC)