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    So I'm writing a longtime alternate history that focuses on an alternate Spain and as part of that I ended up doing a population map for around the year 1150. The map was made with a relief map I found at Data-Spain and then a lot of different layers and layer styles with a pattern of "old paper" as the base. The cities were a simply multi pointed star and a box and I just added a bevel and drop shadow. City text was made with a simple outerglow of black at normal with some adjusted settings. The key is pretty simple: from lowest to highest population colors are:

    Red
    Orange
    Green/Yellow
    Dark Green
    Light Blue

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    Looks nice, man.
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    Cool. Not knowing nearly as much about 12th-century Spain as I ought, can you tell us what's alternate about it?

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    I love the colours. I'm not sure, but I think the usual convention is for warm saturated colours (like red) to represent densely populated areas and cool light colours (like light blue) to represent less populated areas, but of course that's entirely up to you!

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    Thank you Ascension.

    Quote Originally Posted by jbgibson View Post
    Cool. Not knowing nearly as much about 12th-century Spain as I ought, can you tell us what's alternate about it?
    Mostly I posted it here to get the opinion of how the colors and such looked. My base map was obtained at Data-Spain, specifically this is the base map: http://www.maps.data-spain.com/shop/pic.php?id=3115 . Population changes are that the peninsula has about 4 million more people at the time and that they are more evenly distributed throughout instead of clustering along the coastal areas and rivers as Spain and Portugal are even today thanks to a lot more irrigation and a lot less war.

    The point of divergence from our timeline is actually way back in 750. Instead of unifying Islamic Spain under Umayyad rule, Abd ar-Rahman fled to Asturias, converted to Christianity, became king and unified Spain and Morocco under a Christian regime that is far more open to Arab advancements. Let's see, fun changes: The Irish are colonizing the new world, feudalism never emerged, the Buddhists became violent militants and are conquering China, the Russians are Catholic, and there was a joint Christian-Muslim invasion of the Holy Land against proto-atheists.

    Quote Originally Posted by ravells View Post
    I love the colours. I'm not sure, but I think the usual convention is for warm saturated colours (like red) to represent densely populated areas and cool light colours (like light blue) to represent less populated areas, but of course that's entirely up to you!
    Hmm, the thought process is that I associate red with dry/barren/hot or rather, places that are less hospitable to live and green as lush and growing, so perfect for populations.
    Last edited by SSJPabs; 02-10-2011 at 03:12 AM.

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