Map Redux

Initially, I'd intended just to map out a few circles of the 6-mile hexes surrounding Kronstadt.  But as the maps became useful for the worldbuilding posts, I went on expanding the map in bits and pieces.  Each time I posted these online, my views shot up, so I know readers are liking the maps.

Problems, however, were forming.  The work was spreading outwards to the edges of the map sheet ... which meant my having to create new sheet, as my computer will handle only so much data.  The Kronstadt map had reached a size of 33 megabytes; that's pretty big for a publisher file.  This is why I present my 20-mile sheet maps in sizes of 30 by 35 hexes ... to keep the size manageable.

Additionally, the location of Kronstadt happens to fall near the 30th meridian, east.  This is one of the points that my world map shifts 60-degrees in direction, to maintain the map's projection.  As such, every map I've posted of Kronstadt this year has been shifted 60 degrees to the right, so that "north" is in the map's upper right.  Since none of the actual 30th meridian passes through any of the map I've drawn thus far, I decided to shift the whole map to date to the left, to put north at the top.  Here's the redux:

This has also been shifted onto two sheets, shown combined above.  If I continue (and I think I will), the map's bound to spread out onto other sheets as it grows.  I'm really liking the colour scheme; I saw no reason to change it.

I have changed the hammer symbol throughout.  These changes are time-consuming ... but a little done each day produces results over time.  Eventually, I catch myself up to the place I was at before deciding to reformat; this is always a very good feeling.

I'm going to write a post about way stations and shrines in the next day or two.  I'm feeling a lot better, by the way.