Ok, lets just check I have this right before I go any further. This is a duplicate of the key image on Khornishman's thread, but with what I think are the English definitions of each fill/symbol.
Please let me know if I have any of these wrong? Thanks
Oh and... What is that little picture for Archery range showing? At first glance I thought it was a rocket ship. Then I thought is was some kind of bow stand, but now it might be an archer standing on a very small mound and firing an arrow? I can't draw it until I know what it's meant to be, or it will just be a blob, because that's all I can see.
Not all of the above will be relevant to the CC3 style. For example, there will be drawing tools for borders, but not specific ones like those in the key, and as has already been mentioned I will be combining things like Road and Road with trees to show just one road with trees on half of it.
I think the key itself should probably be included in the annual? Not this photograph, but the one I make of the new style.
Definitely include the key. I can't see the blob referred to, but it definitely should be a rocket ship - proof of alien visitation in the 1600's. They were so disgusted and that is the reason we don't see them any more.
Another one I can't really make out is the coalmine symbol. Are those just circles, or more elaborate than that?
The Smelting site I already know is an old fashioned smelting oven built of clay by hand. They are about as tall as a man and very similar to pottery kilns, only there is a ditch leading from the bottom to a hollow where the iron pours out. Either that, or I've gotten completely the wrong end of the stick and this is actually a pottery kiln. Making pottery or bricks was an important part of life back then.
Wyvern - I think the military-style layout of the legend I'm making is probably very appropriate, since the information contained in the semiotic analysis I linked to in the comment above this one makes it quite clear that while the Ferraris map never had a contemporary key when it was first made, it (along with most maps of that era) was made for purely military purposes. Us common folk just got on with the farming and stuff, and probably wouldn't have been able to read a map or know it for what it was if we saw one - back then.
I might jiggle it around a bit, though - add useful info about isolated trees and bushes and such. Basically combine the two keys I now have and pick what is needed for a complete version from the point of view of a CC3 mapper.
Also my browser is set to automatically open any pdf I click on directly in the browser. Some aren't.
Even more weirdly the original link I made on Khornishman's thread (the mother thread of this one) works perfectly. I created the broken one here by copying and pasting the one I'd just made on Khornishman's thread.
You will have to forgive me for being just a little confused by all of this!
The link works. As well-deserved punishment for your inexcusable 'confusion' (we all know it was deliberate), you are sentenced to producing either 1492 maps for the Community Atlas, or an absolutely superb Annual issue based on the Ferraris maps.
You know that rocket ship/bow stand/archer on rock symbol? well the alternative key has it as a "vertical pole" with a much larger render, showing that its a kind of.... pole thing. LOL!
I still haven't got the foggiest idea what it really is, and I can't work out the semiotics.
I'm just going to have to do my best, though it will still look a bit like a blob. Maybe someone will be kind and tell me what it's really supposed to be. I think something has got lost in the initial translation, and the definition in the second key is totally bland. I mean - did the Belgians go around just planting odd looking poles in the ground when they felt like it?
I've done a bit of reading since I made that suggestion. Apparently may poles are usually erected the day before the dance and taken down again straight after.
The Google translator wasn't giving me the goods because I didn't click on the suggested French phrase. When I clicked on it this time I got "Perched Archery".
What the heck is that?
I looked it up and came up with 'Popinjay' - an archery sport where wooden birds are sat along cross-trees on a very tall pole and then fired at with blunt arrows for points scored for hits or knocking the wooden birds off their perches. The sport is little known, but apparently still very popular... in Belgium
So it looks like I was sort of right by calling it an Archery range, though it would probably be better to call it a Popinjay Pole.
This might seem like a strange thing to make a specific note of on a map, but thinking about it - the military made this map. It would definitely have been of interest to them that the local population were possibly a lot more capable archers than would normally be expected.
I thought so too after comparing the examples for a while this morning, and have already replaced it with mines. The resulting key is a blend of both keys. There's nothing much to see by the way of fills and symbols right now, but this is the layout and categorisation.
I love that you share your progress with us. It teaches us just how much work goes into the creation of an annual issue and shows what a great value the annuals really are.
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That font is Tangerine - one that I have always loved.
Please let me know if I have any of these wrong? Thanks
Oh and... What is that little picture for Archery range showing? At first glance I thought it was a rocket ship. Then I thought is was some kind of bow stand, but now it might be an archer standing on a very small mound and firing an arrow? I can't draw it until I know what it's meant to be, or it will just be a blob, because that's all I can see.
I think the key itself should probably be included in the annual? Not this photograph, but the one I make of the new style.
The Smelting site I already know is an old fashioned smelting oven built of clay by hand. They are about as tall as a man and very similar to pottery kilns, only there is a ditch leading from the bottom to a hollow where the iron pours out. Either that, or I've gotten completely the wrong end of the stick and this is actually a pottery kiln. Making pottery or bricks was an important part of life back then.
I know what these little tiny blob things really look like now.
I've found another legend here:
!Broken link deleted to avoid confusion and annoyance. Please see below for working link.
I might jiggle it around a bit, though - add useful info about isolated trees and bushes and such. Basically combine the two keys I now have and pick what is needed for a complete version from the point of view of a CC3 mapper.
How did I do that?
I will go back to the page and copy directly from the browser.
I think it must be because its a pdf and not an actual webpage.
Does this work for you?
https://core.ac.uk/display/55763760?recSetID=
Also my browser is set to automatically open any pdf I click on directly in the browser. Some aren't.
Even more weirdly the original link I made on Khornishman's thread (the mother thread of this one) works perfectly. I created the broken one here by copying and pasting the one I'd just made on Khornishman's thread.
You will have to forgive me for being just a little confused by all of this!
I think I'll take the Ferraris style annual option
You know that rocket ship/bow stand/archer on rock symbol? well the alternative key has it as a "vertical pole" with a much larger render, showing that its a kind of.... pole thing. LOL!
I still haven't got the foggiest idea what it really is, and I can't work out the semiotics.
For giant women, maybe!
I'm just going to have to do my best, though it will still look a bit like a blob. Maybe someone will be kind and tell me what it's really supposed to be. I think something has got lost in the initial translation, and the definition in the second key is totally bland. I mean - did the Belgians go around just planting odd looking poles in the ground when they felt like it?
Is it possibly a May pole?
You know - pagan celebration of Spring?
I've done a bit of reading since I made that suggestion. Apparently may poles are usually erected the day before the dance and taken down again straight after.
But unless anyone comes up with a better idea...
It might as well be, for all I know about it
I have it now.
The Google translator wasn't giving me the goods because I didn't click on the suggested French phrase. When I clicked on it this time I got "Perched Archery".
What the heck is that?
I looked it up and came up with 'Popinjay' - an archery sport where wooden birds are sat along cross-trees on a very tall pole and then fired at with blunt arrows for points scored for hits or knocking the wooden birds off their perches. The sport is little known, but apparently still very popular... in Belgium
Popinjay
So it looks like I was sort of right by calling it an Archery range, though it would probably be better to call it a Popinjay Pole.
This might seem like a strange thing to make a specific note of on a map, but thinking about it - the military made this map. It would definitely have been of interest to them that the local population were possibly a lot more capable archers than would normally be expected.
The Groeven/Carrieres fill that you guess as being "caves" is probably for a quarry.
I love that you share your progress with us. It teaches us just how much work goes into the creation of an annual issue and shows what a great value the annuals really are.