This is a very nice map. Have some Rep.!
Only (minor) gripe: I think the map would look even better if you had only used one tree-symbol (especially...
Not necessarily (tropical rainforests on the equator). It depens on how your world-axis is tilted in realtion to the plane it travels around the sun....
lol...yeah.
You know what's funny? A friend and i are working on a more or less identical setting to yours...and we also had our brains in knots for...