Demaine atlas / v17
A real landscape. Fictional sovereignty.
The physical canvas uses real geographic data. The sovereignty layer represents the 2235 demaine system specified for The Pallene Incident. Ecuador remains a geographic and cultural name here, not a sovereign state.
Demaine borders / 2235
The political geometry is an editorial interpretation of the supplied production brief against the real terrain. Regional boundaries follow broad watersheds, inhabited basins and service districts; private demaines use more surveyed and asset-based geometry. The source sketch supplies the political concept, not literal border coordinates.
Ambato remains a narrow utility corridor; Vane encloses the Carihuairazo and Chimborazo massifs; Riobamba remains outside Vane. The eastern Amazonian interior is shown without a Compact-recognised territorial sovereign. Dashed eastern lines are service corridors, not sovereignty claims.
Economic and service flows
Manta exports, Guayas agricultural and river traffic, the existing Ambato–Vane utility relationship, Vane regional logistics and eastern forest/extraction cargo through Tena and Puyo are shown alongside explicitly marked planned project infrastructure. Arrows indicate movement and dependency, not territorial ownership.
Satellite texture / 2021 annual composite
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by the ESA WorldCover consortium. The preferred texture is requested from Terrascope’s pre-rendered MapProxy WMTS cache under CC BY 4.0. Colour, contrast and saturation are adjusted to this atlas.
A single failed or cancelled 2021 tile does not force the whole atlas onto older imagery. Only repeated failures before any 2021 tile succeeds activate the commercially reusable EOxCloudless 2016/17 emergency texture. Both are historical imagery; neither is a picture of the story’s future.
Places, roads & water
OpenFreeMap serves vector tiles using the OpenMapTiles schema, with data from © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Names use the local mapped name first. Contemporary administrative borders, commercial points of interest and building extrusions are deliberately omitted. Inside Vane, present-day minor settlement names are intentionally replaced by the estate’s Sector One–Ten nomenclature.
Volcano reference points
The eight highlighted volcanic landmarks use published coordinates and elevations from Instituto Geofísico – EPN and the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program. These are volcanic-edifice reference locations, not surveyed summit pins.
Terrain & elevation
Mapzen Terrain Tiles, hosted on AWS Open Data, provide Terrarium-encoded elevation for hillshading and 3D terrain. Global GMTED2010 and SRTM terrain data are courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey; global ETOPO1 terrain data are from NOAA. Full provider credits and terms.
The 3D view uses 1× vertical scale. The elevation mosaic has varying native resolution and survey dates; zooming in does not create finer survey data. This is an exploratory atlas, not a survey or navigation product.
Rendering & availability
MapLibre GL JS renders the map. Geography, imagery and fonts are requested from external services. No location permission, account, analytics or API key is used. If the preferred 2021 texture genuinely fails, the atlas swaps to its stable fallback; if both fail, political and geographic layers remain available.
