Square shaped field structures - BoK map

[sevenless]

Hi,

 

any chance to change the perfectly square shaped field structures to something more irregular and natural looking shapes in the BoK map?

 

[Ehret]

Just now, sevenless said:

any chance to change the perfectly square shaped field structures to something more irregular and natural looking shapes in the BoK map?

 

Just checked some aerial photographs and... often fields look that way.

[Chief_Mouser]

There's nothing wrong with them. Look on Google Earth and you'll see that they are still there today.

[katdog5]

hahaha

 

[sevenless]

1 hour ago, 216th_Cat said:

There's nothing wrong with them. Look on Google Earth and you'll see that they are still there today.

 

Look at aerial pictures of the 40s and 50s and you easily can see the difference

[LukeFF]

8 hours ago, sevenless said:

Look at aerial pictures of the 40s and 50s and you easily can see the difference

 

Well, then show them.

[sevenless]

1 hour ago, LukeFF said:

 

Well, then show them.

 

Nah, I rather leave it at that as a perfect example that the region was already cultivated in the 40s by high technology agricultural methods.

 

 

[Dakpilot]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet_Union

 

There is much more info available but a quick skim of this goes some way to explanation 

 

It is to be also noted that in 1937 Russia was World leader in combine harvester production with almost double that of the US. 

 

Collectivism of farming in Soviet Union was a terrible thing but it is not surprising that Kuban agricultural region looks like that in 40's

 

Cheers, Dakpilot 

Edited August 19, 2018 by Dakpilot

[Chief_Mouser]

@sevenless. Here's the 1943 German map of the area north of Krasnodar. Notice how the majority of the roads are nice and straight and give the impression of bordering rectangles of land. I can't see why you'd build nice straight roads across a lot of random-shaped fields. Please show your aerial photos as counter-proof; because I think that you are wrong about this and the map is a good representation of the ground at the time of the Kuban battles.

 

[sevenless]

34 minutes ago, 216th_Cat said:

@sevenless. Here's the 1943 German map of the area north of Krasnodar. Notice how the majority of the roads are nice and straight and give the impression of bordering rectangles of land. I can't see why you'd build nice straight roads across a lot of random-shaped fields. Please show your aerial photos as counter-proof; because I think that you are wrong about this and the map is a good representation of the ground at the time of the Kuban battles.

 

I see that you were already involved in the past:

 

 

 

 

 

As it is right now the fields look as they look today minus the variation, which would be fine for a 1990s map because they are cultivated by large machines. Back then in the 40s after Stalins so called reforms resulting in mass starvation in ukraine the fields were smaller due to the fact that not machines but men and oxen or horse drawn plows cultivated them. You have the same virtually everywhere in west and east europe if you compare field sizes from the 40s with field sizes from today. Increase in field size was a result of technological evolution in agricultural techniques.

 

However, since you discussed that already in the past and obviously decided for the more modern looking style, I leave it at that.

 

[LukeFF]

6 hours ago, sevenless said:

Nah, I rather leave it at that as a perfect example that the region was already cultivated in the 40s by high technology agricultural methods.

 

Well, then don't expect a change if you don't provide some photographic sources. 

[sevenless]

11 minutes ago, LukeFF said:

 

Well, then don't expect a change if you don't provide some photographic sources. 

 

NVM no need to.