I have decided to try out the Jon Roberts Overland Style, and as a break from the community Atlas, have picked on doing a map of where I live . Here is the first part.
It looks like a very nice place for a James Bond villain to settle. Just a question: Do you live in a normal house, or in an unground/underwater secret base?
Have to make sure roads (most dirt, only 2 sealed roads) don't go over the villages! Population 800, capital (Whitemark) population 350! But we have our own hospital, school (up to age 18), 3 policemen (1 just for marine work - a lot of abalone harvesting, some not quite legal), post office, bank, hardware, solar/wind power station, supermarket, 2 pubs and 5 cafes! Somewhat over-serviced perhaps. Oh, and the car ferry goes once a week, the planes twice a day to Tasmania and 5 times a week to Melbourne on mainland Australia. It is our little piece of paradise.
I really like this map! I would love to do a map of Long Island, however, time has developed my lovely island into overpopulated suburbia now and only the east ends are truly lovely and map worthy.
My final update, unless there are comments needing my attention, or someone thinks I should put a frame on it - bear in mind I am hopeless on frames, so if you do, please give detailed instructions 3:)
If you want to add a frame/decorative border, an easy way to do it is to treat it like a dungeon wall. Choose a good width, a fill you like, and then draw a rectangle around the map on the MAP BORDER sheet and MAP BORDER layer. You can use the path tool, poly tool or, probably best, the box tool. As with walls, if you choose to use the path or poly tools then make sure you begin somewhere along a straight edge and not at a corner, to avoid a telltale gap.
You might want to add a small (or not-so-small) bevel effect to the map border sheet, or even a glow or shadow, depending on the look and feel you're after. If you use a "wood" fill, bear in mind that a single entity will keep the fill facing one direction, so wood might look a little strange. You can make a [very slightly] more complex border by using four thin trapezoids (the angles let the trapezoids meet at the corners). Then, you can use the Shaded Polygon or Shaded Polygon Angle by Edge command to rotate the fills as needed.
I hope that helps. I love the map. I particularly like the callout images and notes.
This is a beautiful piece of work. I absolutely love the use of photos to illustrate points - I've never thought of doing that before, and it's an idea I'm definitely stealing.
Also - Captain James Cook is a man of my county. We get around a bit, us Yorkshiremen. But if we go to Hawaii, they kill us. Everyone else gets flowers and alo-ha-ee; we get the sharp end of spears.
This map is made with a lot of love. I had always wanted to live between the mountains and the sea, in a cooler climate than Brisbane. And here we are, 6 years now on this island which I first visited in 2006, with a glorious viw and 5 mins walk to the beach, and a tall hill behind us which is home to nesting sea eagles. We feel truly blessed.
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Anyway, really nice map.
Nice map, too. This would make for a fun adventure setting.
I am all for a PF Beach Convention on Flinders!!
You might want to add a small (or not-so-small) bevel effect to the map border sheet, or even a glow or shadow, depending on the look and feel you're after. If you use a "wood" fill, bear in mind that a single entity will keep the fill facing one direction, so wood might look a little strange. You can make a [very slightly] more complex border by using four thin trapezoids (the angles let the trapezoids meet at the corners). Then, you can use the Shaded Polygon or Shaded Polygon Angle by Edge command to rotate the fills as needed.
I hope that helps. I love the map. I particularly like the callout images and notes.
Cheers,
~Dogtag
Also - Captain James Cook is a man of my county. We get around a bit, us Yorkshiremen. But if we go to Hawaii, they kill us. Everyone else gets flowers and alo-ha-ee; we get the sharp end of spears.