Sometimes, if you don't like the way something looks, you just have to start over. For example, my covering force game map. 3 times.

Painful, but sometimes necessary.

On the other hand, some paths through the desert would probably not hurt. Saudi Arabia had rocky deserts and there were Tels in places that we set up near that stood out in what was otherwise flat ground. But, as I remember, it was pretty flat until we got close to the Tigres/Euphraties.

Well, here is a picture at the LBH in March of last year following a two day blizzard. It may not be worth the effort for my purposes. Some places had more, some had less. It wasn't particularly cold, even for a Florida boy. The previous two days though we didn't leave the hotel.

Not even sure how it would look from overhead.

If I listen to anything, it is classical.

Well, you could call Kinkos and see how much they charge for the map.

I recently bought a custom map from mytopo.com of the Little Bighorn area that was about 4x5 feet with grid lines and elevation shadows for 29.95. Satellite photographs are more, around 100. A combination contour map was 79.95 and was nice to look at, but hard to read.

Incredibly to me, the. Company lets you download a full size PDF and save it so you can print it yourself. So does the national geologic service and their maps run 9-15 bucks.

For physical objects, there is an informal rule of thumb of three times the cost of materials

One has to think of the amount of time you put into it.

My daughter charges people by the square inch for paintings. 0.50 for her friends and 1.00 for others. Larger paintings can be more.

You can go to the wargame vault. They printout digital maps and you can see what they charge.

I find it difficult to price my games because volume is low and I am not well known.

Hope this helps.

When I looked at this, I thought it was something @JimP @Quenten or @Loopysue would do. It's really cool, no?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

@Lillhans Geeze. You are a genius. I have trouble enough just trying to duplicate topographical maps for wargames. It's a good thing contour lines are not straight or gentle curves, cause I can't draw straight lines without a ruler or graceful curves with a French curve, even assuming I don't slip. Exceptional and very artistic work.

I also wish I could punch Like, Awesome (a word which is overused today), and Insightful all in the same post.

That subcontinent reminds me somewhat of the aliens in the movie Independence Day.

I just use the smooth polygon tool to outline the contour and then fill it with green or brown shades with the contour line being the same color as the fill. To me, darker contour areas represent higher elevation. @Loopysue likes them the to represent lower elevations, but to me it looks like you are looking down a hole. This is a portion of the first map I ever made with CC3.

This is a desert region in California so the ground is brown while green indicates forest or orange groves in this case.

While there may be some way to get topographical data from those maps, I don't know where one would start or have any idea about how to do it..

That said, you apparently go to OpenMap.com/DE and get a bootable map that allows access to data. I'm away from my computer right now and will have to check the link and update it if I'm wrong.

Choppinlt: Apparently, you can download data from that site. I have no idea how. If so, perhaps it can be manipulated via Fractal Terrain 3, which went beyond my desire to master. I found it very frustrating, even when following the tutorials.

This thread https://forum.profantasy.com/discussion/9720/ft3-to-cc3-mapping-issues#latest has some details. In the end, I gave up on FT3 - it wasn't an expensive gamble for me - and decided to just use Brute Force and Ignorance to work my way through using CC3. BFI has its own reward.