Hmmmm, very original approach. I think I like this. 

Most civilizations did not magically popup out of the ground with population, culture, lore, etc. They were a subset of existing peoples from an existing civilization, that for any number of different reasons ended up leaving their current lands, settling in territory that was new to them, and establishing their own culture/lore/civilization; they left behind their titles, lands, etc, and started anew. As they developed they had to work with, compete with, or in many cases fight with the old civilization that they were trying to leave behind.

I will download your map and give it a try.

Beta version is almost ready, small preview:

Oh, sounds so neat oO

Installing it right now

first version uploaded on mod.io

https://humankind.mod.io/true-culture-location

you need the latest version of the Giant Earth Map

https://humankind.mod.io/map-giant-earth-map

Updated to v1.0.1.0 on mod.io

For all type of game:

• up to 16 major Empires in game (10 slots from the setup menu + 6 AI "random" slots) for generated maps or the Giant Earth Map, even without using the TCL option (in that case you'll need AOM mod to allow duplicate cultures, or mods to add enough Cultures to the Ancient Era)
• add option to start with an outpost on the spawn point (for TCL it prevents AI players to settle in territories that won't unlock an ancient Culture)
• add alternate starting positions options for the Giant Earth Map with closer spawn point matching the initial ancient Cultures positions
• add option to set the maximum width of the Empire icons list on the top left panel

True Culture Location only:

• add TCL for minor factions (thanks @SeelingCat), with "strict" or "adjacent territories" options
• one major Empires and multiple independent people can spawn from the territories lost by an Empire when adopting a new Culture
• add an option to limit the number of Neolithic spawns, setting a pool of "reserved" Empires that will spawn later during the game, either when an Empire lose territories on adopting a new Culture, or evolving from independent people cities on their historical location
• show a list of the lost territories before selecting a new Culture
• add an option to set the level of compensation (in influence, money, science and production in Capital) per territory lost when adopting a new Culture
• update Districts graphics for all historical territories of a faction when adopting a new Culture, spawning from the territories lost by an old Empire or evolving from an independent people city.
• add an option to allow dead players to respawn as a new Empire when the "reserved" pool is empty

Sorry for the delay, I've finally managed to update the mod for the DLC

v1.0.3.2 posted on mod.io

• add African DLC Territories for TCL (thanks to SeelingCat)
• DLC compatibility fix for more than 10 players: manually add a Random Avatar Summary to slots missing it
• add option to replace lagging major Empires by Independent People if there are not enough free slots left for New Empires (untested, default is off)
• add framework to load/save mod's data with a game
• cleanup of "starting outpost" code
• bug fix : display territory names instead of indexes when using the mod without the True Culture Location option
• bug fix : check if a Culture has a defined territory list before trying to get the list (allows the mod to work with regional maps)

I wonder could you ad a patch the will make it compatible with Uncle2fire Culture Super Pack for Humankind ?

FreeThinker wrote:

I wonder could you ad a patch the will make it compatible with Uncle2fire Culture Super Pack for Humankind ?

Mod's coded to allow compatibility for custom cultures or custom maps using json files, while I don't plan to maintain such files, I can help making them (ping me here or on CFC or on discord).

The best way to release it would be with the culture pack itself (the mod looks for *TCL.json files that were copied in the "Resources" folder of a humankind mod project), but it could also be placed in an independent "compatibility mod", or directly in the game's mods folder in "my documents" for quick testing/development.

For maps the best way would be to put it in the map's archive before uploading it on mod.io (ie not using the in game uploader) so that it's deployed with the map when people subscribe (from the site or in game) or manually install it.

For details, see:

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/mod-true-culture-location-and-territory-naming-for-the-giant-earth-map.673062/#post-16173522

FreeThinker wrote:

I wonder could you ad a patch the will make it compatible with Uncle2fire Culture Super Pack for Humankind ?

And it's done, thanks to Uncle2fire who has added the territory list in the latest version of his Culture Super Pack mod.

You'll need also the new version of the TCL mod on mod.io

v1.0.3.4

• load fix: limit the number of player slots by the number of available AI avatars (fix for the "value has to be >=0" error)
• compatibility: restore the function to get the TCL.json files from the asset bundle
• compatibility: only load TCL.json files from assets bundle of active mods, and unload them if the mod is deactivated