WIP Arboridia (Mercia) for Community Atlas
HelenAA
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The map is being drawn using Jon Roberts Overland style but I’m building the town using Jonathan Roberts Cities template. Up to now I’ve avoided the structures in the Cities template simply because I had got it into my head that I hated the shapes, so I decided to see whether I actually could use them to create a town with them, and I’ve come to like them but strictly on a very small scale! I’m also using colour to help differentiate types of structures, e.g Civic Offices and Harbour area as well as residential areas.
The map below is just a rough outline of the town that I’ve named ’Ridia. I build towns by placing the structures first and then put the roads in, the opposite to a great many of my fellow mappers but that’s how my brain works best.
By the way, were the two templates done by the same person?
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It will be interesting to see where you go with this.
And yes - Jonathan Roberts provided the artwork for both these styles. His website is called Fantastic Maps if you are curious.
I thought it might be the same chap - the symbols have the same “feel”, in the same way as yours have the same “feel".
Actually Helen, I tend to do a few major roads (no more than 3) then add houses/buildings, then the other roads work themselves out. So I sort of do it your way too.
I place symbols allowing for roads or trees or whatever the map calls for! I’ve put a background on my current version just to prevent ’Ridia from suffering from urban sprawl!! I know more or less what forests will be where and the odd small village running along the rivers. . . . Cheated slightly by drawing over the coastline and rivers though. <shrug>
Yes Helen. I like Quenten, like to let maps evolve. Like Bob Ross, happy little accidents.
My current large city map was set with all the main roads. Almost done with building placement, now filling in minor roads and paths.
A local view of ’Ridia from yesterday-- half finished.
Today saw more building in ’Ridia. I think I’m about 2/3rds through now. I just pasted my notes of colours and symbols onto a box to see what it would look like. I’ll have to enlarge it for the final map I think because the below is a cropped screenshot. not yet got enough to export it and get a meaningful image. I’m really having fun with ’Ridia.