Okay, now you guys need to knock that off! I sometimes ready these postings late at night when my family's asleep, & hilarious posts like these cause to me to snort and bark out a laugh that would wake the dead!!! Ah-Hahaha!
Yes, it's in the old map too. (see here: http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=474 ) Plus, I like it
You're right; nothing wrong with that at all, but my original intent was to do a sort of old map feel, when the idea of absolute symbolic representation had not yet occurred to cartographers. The Gough map was my original inspiration (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/goughmap.htm), although I could not bring myself into making something that unattractive. Someday, perhaps.
On this same note, here's a neat site to compare some late-medieval & later styles of map symbols: http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/ha...map/symtab.htm
Thanks a ton for your input, Publius. You rock.