*** September Challenge - What is your Style? ***

[Robbie]

Keep in mind that style also refers to stylization...just because a river is DRAWN as if it were 700 meters across, doesn't mean that is is. Maps are a functional form of artwork, and in history many of the bits and pieces of maps were purely representational of location, not scale. A good stylized map will always show WHERE a river is and WHERE a town is, but very few stylized maps actually show size in relation to the maps scale.

Lets not be so picky about the fine science behind your entries and focus more on the art and style of your entries. That is in fact what we should all be voting on.

My 2C

[Badger]

thats whats confusing me, is it 100 miles from 1 corner to the other? and at that size, if i had the size of the image 800x800, would you be able to see (if barely) the villages and trees? cause im not really used to using villages..... except in larger scaled maps of mine


oh and am i allowed to make it bigger? cause im used to using a minimum size of 800x800..... sometimes bigger

yes... 100 miles from corner to corner, which would give you roughly ... 10,000 square miles of map... You can make the map as large as you want too I suppose.... the image is just basis from which to map from. making it 800 x 800 would give you 8 pixels per mile.... i'm sure you will see much larger maps than that ...

[ravells]

Sorry, I'm confused now. I don't understand where pixels come into it. The map is 100 miles along each edge. If you want to make something hugely detailed and contained in a huge document that's fine. If you want to create a map which is small, that's also fine, but the distance would still be 100 miles along each edge for both of them. Effectively you can make the scale what you like, if you see what I mean.

[Badger]

I think he's confusing scale with pixels... but what rav said is true... make it as big or a small as you like... its still 100 miles long and 100 miles high...

Sorry rav... I was just trying to give him a pixel/mile ratio if he made his map in 800px increments... didn't mean to confuse you, or me...

[Steel General]

I might even throw my proverbial "hat in the ring" this month.

[Redrobes]

With all this interest I had better get some thumbnails in place. You can go here for the standard sticky thread for details about how to target a particular image and see latest thimbs.

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[kpadua]

Oooo sounds exciting...!! I am a newcomer. Any scale or size restrictions?

[NeonKnight]

Oooo sounds exciting...!! I am a newcomer. Any scale or size restrictions?

Nope. As long as the map depicts the area shown and constrains to the map scale of 100 miles x 100 miles

[mmmmmpig]

what is the phrase? Oh, yes, "It's on like Donkey Kong!"

[Steel General]

I thought I recognized that name from somewhere...