I decided to enter this map in the this months challenge. It's sort of borderline to the theme, but since Relleker is encouraging hunting, camping, other forms of "outdoor recreation" I figured I might as well go for it.

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As I mentioned in another thread, I have a false color shaded elevation map of a real-world area (from USGS data). To reach this point:

1) I re-scaled the original map to 100m per pixel.
2) Created an emboss using the standard GIMP settings.
3) Layered the color map over the emboss with 50% opacity.

I am amazed at how well this simple process worked. IMO it gives a very "turn of the century" feel which is very appropriate for the steampunk world this map is for. My only hesitation at this point is that I might not be able to do the rest of the map with a similar quality.