Winter Village, my first finished overview map

[Falconius]

Ok. So when creating a snow map you have to keep in mind the wear of the snow since the last fall and keep it consistent. For instance if people have cut down trees and left a stump and the stump doesn't have snow on it, then the snow around the tree will also be disturbed. That is a minor point. A more noticeable point is that wells would almost always have trails except perhaps for just after a very heavy fall. The other two things I noticed is a lack of covered or uncovered wood piles and trails to them (each house would probably require four pickup truck loads or more. I have a friend here who heats his house with wood from his carpentry business, he basically ends up filling more than half his car park during the summer and that plus the scraps still being produced during cold months lasts him the winter with no room to spare and in a country with no snow generally). People will move the wood around during the winter, they'll have a pile inside the house, a covered pile right by the house with as much as they can fit and keep reasonably dry, and probably another pile wherever they split wood.

The last thing I notice is the lack of outhouses. Even with bedpans, in any pre-industrial plumbing society, outhouses are going to be a thing. Probably not one for every house, but still probably a few.

[MrLegs]

Ok. So when creating a snow map you have to keep in mind the wear of the snow since the last fall and keep it consistent. For instance if people have cut down trees and left a stump and the stump doesn't have snow on it, then the snow around the tree will also be disturbed. That is a minor point. A more noticeable point is that wells would almost always have trails except perhaps for just after a very heavy fall. The other two things I noticed is a lack of covered or uncovered wood piles and trails to them (each house would probably require four pickup truck loads or more. I have a friend here who heats his house with wood from his carpentry business, he basically ends up filling more than half his car park during the summer and that plus the scraps still being produced during cold months lasts him the winter with no room to spare and in a country with no snow generally). People will move the wood around during the winter, they'll have a pile inside the house, a covered pile right by the house with as much as they can fit and keep reasonably dry, and probably another pile wherever they split wood.

The last thing I notice is the lack of outhouses. Even with bedpans, in any pre-industrial plumbing society, outhouses are going to be a thing. Probably not one for every house, but still probably a few.

Those are some really nice points! Thank you. Im going to keep those in mind for sure. For the interior map im maping each house does have a small pile of wood.. but ye, they would need tons more. And time to make some outhouses! Ill be looking at some reference material of what you mean with how snow falls.