[CWBP2] World Map construction thread

[Redrobes]

Yes, to the degree that a house at the pole will take up all of the top row of pixels as the scale goes to 0 or infinity depending on how you measure it. Our normal Mercator style Earth map does significantly distort the areas of countries leading to a very false sense of land mass size.

I don't know if you have to have a fixed scaling multiplier for larger scale maps especially since it also depends on the latitude, but you could specify that as a requirement if you like. If you want to make a single map of all the plots then you do need to resample all the map images together. That's normally a nightmare which is why I wrote my app.

You will find that city maps will probably need to be more than 20x resolution on the original bitmap scaling. Its likely that you will need a bitmap scale of one pixel to about 20cm so that is more like 1 pixel on the original map is 20,000 pixels of city mapping at the equator ! Or to put it another way - one pixel of the original map is not likely to cover a whole city in a normal fantasy demographic. So you wont be able to make one bitmap to hold all the world showing anything with city like detail.

You are bound to have discreet mapping levels or to use a zoom style map browser.

[Azélor]

Discreet mapping

I don't know if you have to have a fixed scaling multiplier for larger scale maps especially since it also depends on the latitude, but you could specify that as a requirement if you like. If you want to make a single map of all the plots then you do need to resample all the map images together. That's normally a nightmare which is why I wrote my app.

So it's not really a requirement and I guess the level of detail depend on the artist?

[RAVENSWORTH]

Are there any plots still open or areas that need a cartographer? Maybe an old man trying to learn to map again?

[Azélor]

So do you (anyone) think we need a fixed scaling multiplier (that could be adjusted to the latitude or not) ?

[Redrobes]

If that was directed at me then I am not bothered. It makes no difference to me whether its fixed or not so I abstain from that kind of decision or vote. If someone else is also planning on making an overall world map of the plots then let them decide. Personally I think it would be a good idea for someone else to additionally make another version of the combined world map in case I am not available for some reason.

[Azélor]

I can collect the maps (in Jpeg or PNG) but I'm not sure I can put them together.

I will go with no scaling multiplier if Falconius agrees.

[Falconius]

I don't care, I'm pretty sure I'm making my map in a slight perspective.... sooo.... it won't join up with anything, thankfully it's an island.

[Azélor]

No scaling then. Now we just need to settle with the copyright topic.

[waldronate]

I loaded the world map into Fractal Terrains from ProFantasy (buy yours today!) as an image overlay that covered the whole world and then used the projection features of FT to get different views.

[Azélor]

An update of the climates. The last image above wasn't very good quality, so I deleted it. The climates should make more sense now but I might continue to improve the map in the future.



And of course I had to redo the biome map. This time, I used my own categories.



the reference file for the biomes.




Also, I was wondering if there was some interesting thematic maps that people would like ?