To publish the map, it's come to where I have to compress it to 46% of its original ... and at that, the image is 17 mb in size. On average, I add an area about the size of Rhode Island; each month, somewhat more than the area of Indiana or Portugal. This is done in concentric circles moving around the outside, which I like because it reduces the amount of repetitiveness as I move from mountain to plain to mountain. The most interesting part of the creation process is the sea coast ... but the only coast I've reached so far is the Black Sea. Yet it will be months before I reach the Adriatic and the Aegean.
I'm not going to put up sub-maps this month. There's nothing especially interesting to highlight that's new, I'm sorry to say. Mapmaking can be a slog. If someone wants to see some part of the map expanded, I'll do so; we can perhaps make that a regular feature, since the full map is just going to grow until it's next to impossible to read. One expanded area per customer, I'm afraid.
My daughter feels I should create an atlas. My best concept for doing so would be to publish a bunch of discontinuous areas for game play purposes, because (a) much of the map is geographically wrong; and (b) it's not a self-contained region, such as a map of Britain might be. This makes its best selling point the relative detail of the outlay ... but even at that, it's just lines and dots. Being me, with my perspective, it seems less "artsy" than other fantasy map images usually are.
Until next month, then. I'll return to the series I've been writing soon.
Absolutely gorgeous
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