Ok. We have all the animals I've got time to do this time around - cows, bulls, horses and sheep.

With only a few days left before handover, I can do a couple more things now. I'm tempted to go for ruined versions of a keep, the bridge and maybe a tower if I can get it done.

Well that's easy, Quenten. Since turkeys are too small to be more than a dot at city scale, all you need to do is draw a dot in turkey colour, and then put flames coming out of it :)

Need for a bull noted, Wyvern! LOL!

There is a Live Mapping session Ralf did in 2020 showing how to create a floorplan map from a city building here. If this is the one you have already watched, I will look for another one, but this one is probably the best and most appropriate for the style you are using.

That's a pretty good first map, NicodemusRa :)

Only a couple of things I would recommend trying - to see if you think it improves the look or not.

Try adjusting the white glow around the map labels to make it smaller and more opaque, but keep the fade. It's not quite working to cut out the map detail right up against the letters. It's close, but it's not quite there.

Try reducing the size of the title just enough that the tops of the letters don't overlap the edge of the map.

A ditch at city scale is relatively easy because you only need to worry about the general appearance of the thing rather than adding too much detail.

Would something like this do?

That's a fractal polygon of the darkest grass shade drawn on top of the field with those three effects employed to give the illusion that it is sunken into the field. That's a dark glow set to outer, a pale shadow of the same extent, and an edge fade inner that is twice the width of the other two. You could use the same effect in any city map. I will find a way to leave it in the example map for you.

I've made it drain into the marsh and put mud in it instead of grass, so it makes sense in the map now