How The Maps Were Made

The maps were created digitally in Photoshop, by hand-painting each layer, elevation, road, river. The Russian 1985 maps from the former Soviet Union were used as a model, however, major adjustments had to be made to the Russian maps. On the original Russian maps, there were sometimes 5 divisions every 200 meters, sometimes 4 divisions every 200 meters, sometimes 6 divisions every 200 meters. This meant that the Russian originals were uneven, so they were adjusted to an even 6 divisions every 200 meters uniformly throughout the maps, digitally hand-painting every elevation layer after the adjustments. The Russian 1985 maps were 4 colors (blue, black, brown, green) which have been altered to 130-color contrast-elevation maps. The original Russian 1985 maps use of brown for mountains, black for roads and dark navy blue for seasonal rivers meant that the dirt roads blended into the scenery and sometimes looked like tributaries, all of which were de-camoflauged using 3-D effects to make all dirt roads stand out and looking entirely different from seasonal rivers.

Then every village name, town name, city name was translated into English using Russian alphabet charts. There may be some error in some of the translations (provided that the Russians didn't make any errors when naming the villages/towns), only because Mistress Izabol has never had a class on Russian and doesn't know any Russians that could tell her if she's gotten the translations correct.

Since the Russian maps were made in 1985, Russia was still communist at the time and there was no privatized companies. Presumably, possession of the Russian maps passed on to the new government. However, since every layer of elevation was hand-painted in Photoshop and elevations were altered to an even 6 divisions every 200 meters, AND the Russian maps were altered from 4-colors into 130 colors, the alteration of the Russian maps is roughly 250% alteration. In modern times, a map/graphic only needs to be altered by a mere 30% for a copyright to no longer apply. The 250% alteration, re-do, hand-painting, de-camoflauge, translation of the Russian maps means that maps entirely belong to Mistress Izabol of Dominant Ladies™ in copyright, free for anyone else to use as long as credit is given to her and it is noted that they were based off the Russian maps.

Other Maps by Mistress Izabol

Mistress Izabol (pen name) Dominant Ladies™ usually does maps of Ancient civilizations, their former locations, and coastlines during the Ice Age. Between 2004-2005, she mapped all islands in the Aegean and former coastlines during 11 different phases of the last Ice Age and melt. She has mapped previous coastlines along the West Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, Red Sea/Gulf of Aqaba/Suez Gulf, parts of the Mediterranean Sea, the Ionian Sea, and the Adriatic Sea during 11 different phases of the Ice Age. Projects which Izabol is presently working on is completion of the maps of British Columbia and Pacific Coast during the Ice Age, the Gulf of Mexico, finishing the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Atlantic Coastline along the British Isles, Denmark and Germany during the 11 different phases of the Ice Age. In addition to maps of former coastlines during the Ice Age, Izabol also does maps of former civilizations, sunk and on-land, that were destroyed. She also redid maps of the Nile delta and maps of the former Nomes/States of Ancient Egypt. The webspace on this particular site was free and it is being hogged by the Afghanistan maps, so here's a few mini-samples of other maps by Mistress Izabol, Dominant Ladies™. Izabol literally has hundreds of maps that the world has never seen--that no one else has made yet.

Ariadnia a.k.a. Atlantis "the island builders of Athina/Athens" Aegean Sea Islands Younger Dryas 8800-8000 B.C.E.	Aegean Sea Last Glacial Maximum 12,000 B.C.E.	South Atzlae South West Turkey Coastline on the Aegean Last Glacial Maximum 12,000 B.C.E.	Matrieux and Eneti Adriatic Sea former coastline of Italy/Croatia Last Glacial Maximum 12,000 B.C.E.
Sicily-Malta Peninsula formerly connected to Italy Mediterranean Sea Last Glacial Maximum 12,000 B.C.E.	Beringia Russia/Alaska Landbridge Pacific Ocean Last Glacial Maximum 12,000 B.C.E. only map that others have made in addition to Izabol	Civilized Tribes of the Southern U.S.A. Mississippi-Louisiana- Alabama Coastlines Gulf of Mexico Last Glacial Maximum 12,000 B.C.E.	Ancient Hohokam Canal Systems Casa Grande-Coolidge Region Arizona 1 A.C.E.-1530 A.C.E. With overlay of Modern Canals, Highways and Roads