Maps of Katarka

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Hi CDN, it looks pretty good. For D & H my gut says the plates are slipping, like the San Andreas fault in California. You might try and look at just the interactions between the plates, as in the style of "A Magical Society: Guide to Mapping" and see what types of mountains are formed by subduction, suturing, slipping, rifting etc. This may then give you confirmation on your choice of plate direction.

The Earth is roughly 70% water. Two ways that you can check yourself by comparing to Earth are to 1. load your image as an overlay in Google Earth and leave the borders on, 2. load it into G projector and put the Earth outline overlay on. I did the 2nd one and verified it with Google Earth. This also helps with looking at your land masses in a spherical projection so you don't get pointy artifacts at the poles.

Good Luck.

[CDN]

Edit: I tried the overlay in Google Earth and that shows pretty clearly that I could safely cut down at least the continental bits of A, B, and C quite a bit, and that at least A is asking to be chopped in half. Will be back with the new map.

Hi CDN, it looks pretty good.

Phew, nice to hear.

For D & H my gut says the plates are slipping, like the San Andreas fault in California.

Hmm. I think you're probably right there.

You might try and look at just the interactions between the plates, as in the style of "A Magical Society: Guide to Mapping" and see what types of mountains are formed by subduction, suturing, slipping, rifting etc. This may then give you confirmation on your choice of plate direction.

Ooh! Resources! Yay!

The Earth is roughly 70% water. Two ways that you can check yourself by comparing to Earth are to 1. load your image as an overlay in Google Earth and leave the borders on, 2. load it into G projector and put the Earth outline overlay on.

Good one; I'll try that.

This also helps with looking at your land masses in a spherical projection so you don't get pointy artifacts at the poles.

Yeah, I've got Hugin and Flexify2 to help me with that, which were also a huge help in figuring out where the polar plates were supposed to be going.

Good Luck.

Why thank you.

[CDN]

Thanks for all your help earlier.

As you can see, I sort of did end up going back to the drawing board to try and cut down on the amount of land I had, and this is what I ended up with. (I actually made cutouts in PS to help me trace the movements, I'm that bad at visualizing this stuff, heh.)

Anyway, I split up the old A-continent and moved D and H down a bit. For the moment, I'm done fiddling with the tectonics, even if I still have a few minor issues (the B/D/F boundary is too straight, and the G/E's kind of awkward), but I can't keep working on this forever or I'll never get anywhere.

Off to draw me some coastlines now.