Aenea

[pyrandon]

I love the contours of your landmass (um, that sounds creepy like some Bad Cartographer's pickup line. Hopefully you take the proper meaning).

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!

I'd maybe not have gone with a line quite as thick, but if it matches the other map you have used it is fine and doesn't detract or anything anyway.

Yes, it's in the old map too. (see here: http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=474 ) Plus, I like it

I'd take things a step further than RP's suggestion and heave the city and ruin icons altogether. I'm no stunning artiste in this sense myself (to create some facsimile of buildings and whatnot) but I see nothing wrong with either a dot (and a triangle for the ruins) or an irregular shaded zone to indicate the city and the surrounding agricultural support area.

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.