Harogard

[Gamerprinter]

Nice hand-drawn style, is it hand-drawn, the woods make it look like it is. Nice job! Have some REP!

At the same time, I was giving it my River Police Inspection, and I thought it passed. At the last second -- I'm looking at the river at the top of the map, if I am not mistaken, the river forks downstream, the northern part enters the forest of Finnhard and empties into the sea. The southern fork empties into a lake then a river takes that to the sea.

And I was going to flag you by, but I guess I'll have to give you a citation!

Almost perfect, I think that's an issue, rivers never fork downstream and it looks like it is - need to fix that. Make it two different rivers one in the woods and one down south to the lake and the sea.

Still get REP, nice job.

Welcome to the Guild.

GP

[wally-d-feed]

I can't quite follow you ... what exactly do you mean (I am not a native speaker)
don't take me wrong .... this is no defence but i want to see the issue

[Nomadic]

Nice hand-drawn style, is it hand-drawn, the woods make it look like it is. Nice job! Have some REP!

At the same time, I was giving it my River Police Inspection, and I thought it passed. At the last second -- I'm looking at the river at the top of the map, if I am not mistaken, the river forks downstream, the northern part enters the forest of Finnhard and empties into the sea. The southern fork empties into a lake then a river takes that to the sea.

And I was going to flag you by, but I guess I'll have to give you a citation!

Almost perfect, I think that's an issue, rivers never fork downstream and it looks like it is - need to fix that. Make it two different rivers one in the woods and one down south to the lake and the sea.

Still get REP, nice job.

Welcome to the Guild.

GP

Well they can but it's very rare and they join back up within a very short bit (so yea they can't flow out like they do there). On an unrelated note is that town called Lintwich? Cause that is an awesome name.

I can't quite follow you ... what exactly do you mean (I am not a native speaker)
don't take me wrong .... this is no defence but i want to see the issue

He means that rivers don't split into seperate rivers when flowing down (they only come together making larger single rivers out of multiple smaller rivers). The only exception like I said is when they branch around a high point but they then will join up again quickly (forming a large island in the river).

[wally-d-feed]

I see ... the only exception from this would be river deltas ...
guess i failed the river policy then ...
I will do better on the next map

All names on the map are constructed from old-high-german language

lintwich would be something like lindenwood

[Nomadic]

I see ... the only exception from this would be river deltas ...
guess i failed the river policy then ...
I will do better on the next map

Well a river delta is more like a sand bank. The river picks up sediment and soil in its flow and drops it downstream. With a delta the point where it enters the ocean becomes a primary drop point for this dirt so it builds up into little islands.

[Hoel]

It's just a bigger sand bank. IIRC it's a swampy area and floods and changes course a lot.

Lovely map. The drawing is perfect... but...
I don't like the text glow, it takes away from the hand drawn bit.
I'd stroke it or just erase the land features to make room for the text. Best example I can come up with right now is Tolkien's map in The Hobbit

The text in the Mirkwood is what i mean.
/Hoel -Trying to get some text into his maps too

[Gamerprinter]

Please understand your map is excellent work.

The river issue is just a common misconception, and we want to make better maps just by avoiding geologic anomalies.

A river delta is the exception, this is caused when sediment (sand, mud, silt) being carried by the river's current slows down because the sea pushes back and the sediment falls. As the sand bank fills up it changes the rivers course causing many channels to form over years of deposits. The current will primarily stay in one main channel regardless of the branches formed in the past.

Islands occur on rivers where the river splits on either side, but generally reconnect a soon as possible. This is just a harder point the river could not erode away easier than channels to either side.

It is extremely rare for a river to fork downstream. One that forks hundreds (I don't know the scale of your map) of miles away and both reach the sea, is not possible geologically speaking. Physics will cause the water to flow the best way, and one would dry up, as the other becomes the course of the river.

I'm only trying to explain this so that you understand my point of view.

River issue aside, Great Map!

GP

[Gandwarf]

I gave you some reputation, because I think this is a very nice map! Well done.

[NymTevlyn]

Nice hand-drawn style, is it hand-drawn, the woods make it look like it is. Nice job! Have some REP!

At the same time, I was giving it my River Police Inspection, and I thought it passed. At the last second -- I'm looking at the river at the top of the map, if I am not mistaken, the river forks downstream, the northern part enters the forest of Finnhard and empties into the sea. The southern fork empties into a lake then a river takes that to the sea.

And I was going to flag you by, but I guess I'll have to give you a citation!

Almost perfect, I think that's an issue, rivers never fork downstream and it looks like it is - need to fix that. Make it two different rivers one in the woods and one down south to the lake and the sea.

Still get REP, nice job.

Welcome to the Guild.

GP

I keep seeing people mention rivers don't fork downstream...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:So...R_20020401.jpg

Yes, they do.

[Ascension]

Did you gloss over how it rejoins downstream?