Makkathran

[atpollard]

People can 'connect' to animals like eagles and see through their eyes, so they know very well how their city looks like from above. I think this would make an artistic approach to a map unlikely.

Just for clarification, by 'artistic', I did not mean a caricature rather than a precision map.
I meant something like this:

which is clearly a line drawing, but one which has been artistically enhanced with watercolor

... as distinct from a purely technical drawing like this:

where the hatching is intended to clearly depict different materials with little attention paid to its 'artistic rendering'.

PS. You were dead on about my unfamiliarity with the books ... I still think that the shore hatch distracts from the canals, but the wall should probably be rendered whiter than the rest of the map ... the walls just need to look more distinct from the buildings and the canals.

YMMV, but I wanted to make sure that I was communicating my intent correctly.

[Sapiento]

Ok, I understand what you mean.

But that's simply not my intention for this map.