Physical Map of Etarek Depicting Regions and Seas

[laevex_esre]

Thanks for the kind words everybody. I appreciate it as I'm pretty new to all this mapping.

Just one Q - no ice sheets? Warm world then.

I wanted to put ice sheets on, but I just couldn't work out if they be placed over the mountains. When I tried it they looked really odd.

It's in Plate Carrée/Equidistant Cylindrical/Equirectangular projection, not Mercator.

It’s actually in equirectangular, but I stretched it slightly to fit into the same dimensions as my regional map. That’s probably very bad practice, but this map is just to depict where the physical features of the world are roughly.

The scale bar is inappropriate as this map doesn't have a consistent scale.

Should it not have a scale bar at all then?

Although the small scale details show appropriate distortion for the projection, the large scale details do not. If you were to apply it to a globe, the continents would probably look OK, but the rivers and coastlines would be distorted. The rivers just look odd in their own right, on a map that looks to be fairly precise, they look highly stylized: being too wide, too, "ragged", and far, far, too short.

That’s because they’re not rivers. They’re just big estuaries caused by a recent raise in sea level. I do intend to include the rivers, but it seems like a lot of effort right now.

I'd have chosen a different projection that does a better job of representing shape or area, and drawn the rivers as simple lines instead.

I agree that I should have chosen a better projection, but the regional maps will do that job hopefully. I will do the rivers when I have time. Importing the river images from Wilbur looks pretty terrible, so I’ll have to trace over each individual river I think. Arduous.

Any more constructive criticisms? I want to make this map as good as it can be, but I am not starting it from scratch in a different projection.