The summer 2026 edition of OAM World Maps is online

[michaelbechtold]

It's been quite a while since last OAM World Maps update – for a reason: to establish a backup for and share work between Christian and I, implementation on my environment that differs from Christian's had to be done. WSL 2 on my end instead of Windows 10, WSL instabilities, and – worst of all – Intel CPU instabilities with random errors (13th Gen excess voltage issue) took many weeks of work; to understand the root causes, then fix. Once the system proved stable I was able to create a full set of OAM vector maps (the published ones are produced by Christian, with very few exceptions). I also added a few OAM vector maps (Nunavut, Greenland and Antarctica), to eliminate previous map source inconsistencies. So, here we are with the OAM World Maps:
– Their base maps are OAM vector maps built on the new WLS 2 system.
– Nunavut, Greenland and Antarctica are additional OAM vector maps now (not yet published).
– Now Tobias' Elements theme is used for the Arctic and Antarctica
– The world maps from zoom level 3 to 8 now use GEBCO bathymetry data for ocean depth shading. From downloading the data at https://www.gebco.net/data-products/gridded-bathymetry-data to the finished maps, it took only a few hours with the help of Claude Sonnet.

Any findings pls. report in the OAM forum. Thank you.
Michael