Hoping to create a short list of major mapping styles

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Then there is Vector vs. Raster. Not really styles I guess but they certainly effect what you get. Look at Gamerprinter's work for Vector, I think all his are vector. Anything in PS or Gimp is raster based. The difference imo is line verse shading. Vector will scale up/down without change. The same cannot be said for raster. (I'm still relatively new to the digital art world but I think what I said is correct).

I bring it up because sometimes this matters to persons requesting a map

Thanks, I made a note of it.

There's also what I call helicopter-style for lack of a better term ... somewhat photorealistic but ignoring the realities of scale so you have more depth than the ultra-realistic satellite stuff, but it's closer to satellite than iso. Tear's Westeros is a good example of this from the Cartographers' Choice archive.

Thanks Gidde. I was struggling for a name for that style too.