Procedural mapping style experiments

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Rivers and roads are next. Again, we can use our geodata to place them. The lines in the original map seem to be mere approximations; the actual road network is slightly different, and I can't find the north-eastern river in my river system data. (Or perhaps the roads have changed and the river dried up in the last century. Hard to say.) At any rate, the roads and rivers shown on the original map are:

We will want to smooth them out. At this point, we have to slightly change the north-eastern road; in actuality, it seems to be a coastal road, but it has to be drawn a little bit inland (or it'lll overlap the coast).

We add back in the mountains and change the line widths to match the original map:

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We can now try to get the colors and fills right. The atlas is a century old, and the paper is a little yellowed; at the same time, the inks aren't the deepest black. In addition, the fills (blue sea, pink land) have to be added.

Finally, we add the rest: the sea routes and labels.

Compare to the original map:

The colors are a little off; it looks like the inks have faded (or were never too dark to begin with). The font doesn't quite match (I used New Century Schoolbook, which is a good but not perfect match to Edwardian and late Victorian map typefaces). But even beside these two things, there's still something missing; a certain fuzziness, perhaps?