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Originally Posted by canadiancreed
If you're reproducing the mid 19th century, including at the very least European countries would make it realistic due to the amount of migration during that time. Ireland, Scotland, the UK, and depending on era, other states as well (for example 1850 would see more immigration from German states, while the 1890s would have more from Italy and Eastern Europe.). The good thing about Europe is that outside of country changes, cities have roughly stayed the same name wise
As for Canada, well first what's now Canada was a collection of colonies until 1867 (Canada West, Canada East, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, and I believe Cape Breton.) There was a lot of change in the era of 1850-1900 (confederation, addition of three new provinces and a heap of territories). Also population totals and hell just census data period is a bloody pain in the ass for 19th century Canada, especially pre-confederation.
Basically a ****ton of work, and hey, it's fun!
Also PM sent, and having files for 1820 and 1840s would be handy too. Don't know how much of a change there would be,.
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Europe is in the file, it is just not edited for 1850. Every country that actually has sent a ballplayer to MLB is in the file, but only the USA is edited to look like 1850.
Technically it is edited to look like 1890 with population data from 1850. Making a completely new list of towns from each decade would be too big a job for even me. So what I have done is made a list from 1890 and then used 1850 population data to estimate population. I already deleted the 30,000 word essay where I explained it all....
I will use this same list of towns for all the decades from 1850 to 1910. So, the exact date when towns were founded and/or disappeared is not going to be accurate. If a town existed in 1890, then it will exist in these world.xml files from 1850 until 1910, unless the estimated population is too small for it to be included. Once I get to 1920, I will make a completely new list of towns (but that is a loooong ways away, yet).