WIP: Shoudu: Imperial Capital District

Calibre

Greets, fellow artists!

Well, I've been working on a city map for Wang Guo, namely Shoudu the Imperial Capital. The city is quite large, so for starters, I focused on the Imperial or Capital District which sits in a manmade lake. This lake, in turn, feeds the Imperial Canal off to the east and beyond.

Still needs work and I have some issues with it but here ya go:

[Deleted User]

Great to see this style. Great map.

Calibre

Thanks, Mr. Quenten and everyone.

I still need to put some work in--especially trying to figure out how to label everything.

Cal

[Deleted User]

With big cities, you can only label the most important parts. if you don't have all the individual buildings, eg as in my city of Stromphe (annual 1, issue 9 - Early Modern cities), you can put labels directly on the map. If you have it filled with buildings, as here, then most sites should just be keyed, as in my map of Vertshusen (Jon Roberts Cities). For your city, I would label perhaps the 2 or 3 most important sites directly, and all the others with a key. (The cities mentioned can be found in the Atlas - just use the search menu)

And where is your gondala symbol, sir!

DaltonSpence

In this map you should limit the labeling to the various districts (I assume those would be the islands separated by major waterways) and then create separate more detailed maps for individual districts (islands). I believe there is a CA issue that covers sectioning large maps but I can't remember which. Looks like a major project which could be most satisfying. (I always worry about tidal beaches when I see maps like this: changing sea levels can make things very complicated.)

[Deleted User]

Just ask Venice about tides!

Calibre

Great idea, thanks!

Cal

Tonnichiwa

This is a really nice looking map! Great job on this so far.

Calibre

Thanks, Tonnichiwa.

Next step is to affix a key per Quenten to it somehow heh

Cal