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    I really like the names on this map, has a very celtic lilt to it, to me, though I don't know if that is your setting. One thing that jumps out at me is the fact you use a very stylized font on the map itself, which is great, I really like it, but the font for the scale bars is generic, takes a little of the continuity away from the maps flavour. Perhaps a different font would fit better for the scale bars.
    All in all I really like it, the names give it, to me, a sense of its culture, even though I have no idea what it is. Really.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SeerBlue View Post
    I really like the names on this map, has a very celtic lilt to it, to me, though I don't know if that is your setting. One thing that jumps out at me is the fact you use a very stylized font on the map itself, which is great, I really like it, but the font for the scale bars is generic, takes a little of the continuity away from the maps flavour. Perhaps a different font would fit better for the scale bars.
    All in all I really like it, the names give it, to me, a sense of its culture, even though I have no idea what it is. Really.
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    The names are (very loosely translated) Irish Gaelic. The culture/setting has a slight Celtic feel to it, though my main purpose was just to give the world a consistent feel. I really like the sound of this language, the lilt as you said.

    Thanks for the kind words and the suggestion for the font change - I hadn't even recognized that inconsistency.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SeerBlue View Post
    One thing that jumps out at me is the fact you use a very stylized font on the map itself, which is great, I really like it, but the font for the scale bars is generic, takes a little of the continuity away from the maps flavour. Perhaps a different font would fit better for the scale bars.
    Changed the font on the bars to the same as the rest of the map, and I think you were right - it looks much better! Any other suggestions?
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    This latest version is quite nice to look at. You did a great job, and I like the naming convention that you used as well as the font.

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    Post Thanks for all the help!

    Thanks to Midgardsormr and SeerBlue for the very helpful suggestions and encouragement, and to landorl for the praise!

    I guess I'll move these over to the Complete Maps thread!
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    Post Hmmmm . . .

    For some reason the Attachment Manager isn't working for me - is this happening to others right now as well? It could be my access I suppose, though I'm not having any trouble with other websites.
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    Everything looks OK.

    I just uploaded an attachment without problems, and your profile looks fine. What are you experiencing?

    (Do you have a pop-up blocker that could be interfering?)

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    I do have a pop up blocker, but it hasn't ever interfered before and there's no notification now that it's activating. The window comes up, I can browse for the files just fine and I get a notification that it's uploading. But the upload just keeps going, and after a couple of minutes I get the 'Internet Explorer cannot access the page' message. Sounds like it's timing out, but I don't know why the files aren't uploading in time.
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