File talk:Viceroyalty of New Spain Location 1819 (without Philippines).png

Nice work -- except that Albuquerque is missing an "r"... the map location says "Albuqueque".

Minor nitpick: In 1819 West Virginia had not yet split off from Virginia. Good job. --Finngall ^talk 21:09, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

"Monterrey"

Monterrey with two Rs is in eastern Mexico. Monterey is in California, on Monterey Bay. The dot on the map is way way off either way. --Sorchah (talk) 03:40, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Errors in the US and what is now Canada

If the map is going to show places outside of New Spain, it should show them correctly.

• In 1819, West Virginia was still part of Virginia, and the District of Columbia was a full diagonal square extending into what is now Virginia.

• The map label Upper Canada is mostly misplaced, lying mostly in what was actually Rupert's Land and Lower Canada. See this map on the Canadian Encyclopedia web site.

• If one British colony in what is now Canada is to be labeled, the other two then extending into the mapped area might as well be, namely Lower Canada and New Brunswick.

• In 1819 the 49th parallel "treaty line" between the US and British territory (now western Canada) extended west only as far as the Continental Divide. Beyond that, everything between the Mexican border and 54°40'N was still jointly administered by the US and Britain. See Oregon country.

And if I noticed this many errors, there are probably more. --76.69.138.28 (talk) 08:30, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Add to that the following. Louisiana (A US state) should in no way be the same color as Florida (which was still Spanish until 1821), The Michigan Territory only includes modern day Michigan and Wisconsin rather than extending all the way to the Mississippi. Jamaica should not be the Spanish color.Naraht (talk) 21:30, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Okay, it's been just about a year since serious problems were raised with this map. Sad, because in some ways it's lovely work. It's time for us either to endure a short series of revisions -- I guarantee it cannot all be rectified in a single pass -- or, however pleasing to the eye this map may otherwise be, just to take it down due to its serious errors. IfYouDoIfYouDon't (talk) 09:58, 12 December 2012 (UTC)