Maps, Maps, Maps
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Hehe. No problem, but I have to admit that I mostly just do something (without any tutorial: trial and error) and afterwards see what the result is.King Ailin of Uantir wrote:Perhaps you could share which layer effects or masks you used. I live by tutorials, I don't have the eye for color and saturation and effects that most do. I simply copy cat a process that I've seen looks right.
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I'll throw in my latest work, the detailed map of Interland:
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/5598/mapaoqc.png
I plan to add road maps and railway network later, as well as the city maps for the biggest cities
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/5598/mapaoqc.png
I plan to add road maps and railway network later, as well as the city maps for the biggest cities
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That map is really nice, good job.
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Thank you!
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GIMP, actually, but if I was brave enough to risk unability to revert changes I would do it even in PaintMatt Kovac wrote:was that made with Photoshop?
Thank you! I've been experimenting with palettes and symbols lately, my other work for testing purposes being the map for Interlandian Western Orientica (province of Interland in Polish Microworld).Aster wrote:A lovely map! It looks almost atlas quality!
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I've made an overlay of roads for the physical map, which resulted in this:
http://i.hub.mn/n.png
Legend:
East-West Highway
Primary state roads
Secondary state roads
Other roads are maintained by local governments and the central authorities cannot guarantee their quality.
The gap in the secondary East-West road is caused by a bunch of factors: an earthquake which took place last year, lack of funds to rebuild the road and preference of the East-West HWY as the main route when travelling between Auer and Virtua; not without meaning was the fact that the road goes through areas of preserved landscape. The local road that is maintained there is not sufficient for interstate travels.
Excuse me for the lack of anti-aliasing, I wanted the file to be of a minimum size (now it's only 31,1KiB).
If anyone's interested in similar looking maps, don't hesitate to ask; I can't guarantee anything, but I'll do my best to help you.
http://i.hub.mn/n.png
Legend:
East-West Highway
Primary state roads
Secondary state roads
Other roads are maintained by local governments and the central authorities cannot guarantee their quality.
The gap in the secondary East-West road is caused by a bunch of factors: an earthquake which took place last year, lack of funds to rebuild the road and preference of the East-West HWY as the main route when travelling between Auer and Virtua; not without meaning was the fact that the road goes through areas of preserved landscape. The local road that is maintained there is not sufficient for interstate travels.
Excuse me for the lack of anti-aliasing, I wanted the file to be of a minimum size (now it's only 31,1KiB).
If anyone's interested in similar looking maps, don't hesitate to ask; I can't guarantee anything, but I'll do my best to help you.
Pavel' Abramovic:, the President of Interland
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Stormark is quite interested in such maps, especially for the Heartland, Frigga Island, the Land of Legends, and Port Chloe and the Providence Plantations.pawelabrams wrote:If anyone's interested in similar looking maps, don't hesitate to ask; I can't guarantee anything, but I'll do my best to help you.
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ITaKa (Interlandsk'e Tovaristvo Kartografic:ne / Interlandian Cartography Society) published a map being a result of recent study done by Interlandske Lingevne Tovarištvo (Interlandian Language Society, a Niki-based society founded to gain knowledge about Interlandian language and its diversity) about the distribution of languages used in the Federation. The research is considered a little biased*, but it's the most accurate and recent data about the languages spoken in the Republic.
http://i.hub.mn/o.png
Key:
Navy Blue - Interlandian, Novograd standard
Blue - Interlandian, Niki standard
Red - Gvezdorsko, by some it's considered a dialect of Interlandian
Orange - Edirnan, language of Nomad origin
Lime Green - Nomad,
Green - English
Grey is an area of the Free City of Virtua, where a mix of many nations speak tens of languages, of which Interlandian, English and Polish are most used. White is the area not taken into consideration, as it is very scarcely populated - but it's commonly accepted that a mix of Interlandian standards prevails on the area.
* the West Islands, of which Niki is capital city, have their own standard of Interlandian language, competing with Novograd standards used by nationwide media, so in InLiT research continental dialects are compared as more Western than Novograd-like. Many other experts consider the mix of these two dialects and foreign languages used on the continent as a slang or "gvara" (from "gvarit'" - to tell (archaic or closed-group things - like stories, tales, myths, legends)) or even talk about it as a third dialect.
http://i.hub.mn/o.png
Key:
Navy Blue - Interlandian, Novograd standard
Blue - Interlandian, Niki standard
Red - Gvezdorsko, by some it's considered a dialect of Interlandian
Orange - Edirnan, language of Nomad origin
Lime Green - Nomad,
Green - English
Grey is an area of the Free City of Virtua, where a mix of many nations speak tens of languages, of which Interlandian, English and Polish are most used. White is the area not taken into consideration, as it is very scarcely populated - but it's commonly accepted that a mix of Interlandian standards prevails on the area.
* the West Islands, of which Niki is capital city, have their own standard of Interlandian language, competing with Novograd standards used by nationwide media, so in InLiT research continental dialects are compared as more Western than Novograd-like. Many other experts consider the mix of these two dialects and foreign languages used on the continent as a slang or "gvara" (from "gvarit'" - to tell (archaic or closed-group things - like stories, tales, myths, legends)) or even talk about it as a third dialect.
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That's an interesting idea and not one I'd ever think of seeing as Uantir only has a single language. Perhaps some others will follow suit, especially nations with con lags. Thanks!
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Can I get a road map of Safiria? c:
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Well, why not, just send me a PM with a sketch of the roads (just paint them red on your current claim).
And here - a bunch of Amager maps:
Political map:
Physical map:
Roadmap:
Terrain map: (Brown - crop fields and other agriculture-purpose terrain, Light Green - meadows, plains, Dark Green - forests, Gray - cities and industry areas)
And here - a bunch of Amager maps:
Political map:
Physical map:
Roadmap:
Terrain map: (Brown - crop fields and other agriculture-purpose terrain, Light Green - meadows, plains, Dark Green - forests, Gray - cities and industry areas)
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I feel like this is a good time to once again acknowledge Pavel for the fantastic work he does both for the MCS and for the help he gave Ocia in making a great map. For that we decided to award Pavel the award of Hero of the Ocian Federation a modest token of our appreciation yet still our highest state decoration .
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Can anyone help me make a resource map? And a map of Amagerian railways?
Thanks.
Thanks.