Thanks for participating everyone. It is now November all over the world, so the challenge is officially over. Of course, if you are working on a map and it isn't quite done yet, we will still love to see it when it is done, and I would still love to have the map for the atlas even if it didn't reach the challenge in time.

I've now put up the 6 maps that were submitted in the first post of the thread, and added a poll there. So, please go back to the first post and cast a vote for which map you think was the best map from this challenge.

I'd like to thank everyone that did submit a map in time, and good luck with the vote. However, do keep in mind that this "best map" vote at the end is just an extra bit of fun. The main idea with this challenge is to challenge yourself, maybe to do something you haven't done before, or to improve your skills. There are people of all skill levels here in the forum, and it shouldn't be the hope of winning that determines your participation or not, but rather the fun of participating. Also remember, even if your map should end up with zero votes, it doesn't mean people didn't like your map, just that it wasn't anyone top candidate.

Please remember when voting that this is a mapping competition first and foremost, and while we all love beautiful maps, I encourage you to take into account how they've solved the task of actually mapping their selected location in the city when deciding who to vote for, not just the artistic merit. The street should be a representaion of what we see on the city map, but obviously, that is a simplified view, so some interpretation of that is certainly expected.

I'll leave the voting open until November 7th.

Red tint just makes it look weird.

It could very well be that queue causing issues. Technically, a the dropbox folder is no different from any other local folder, but the dropbox software continuously monitors that folder to be able to synv changes. And whenever it needs to sync changes, it will need to lock the files (it cannot let a file get overwritten while int he process of syncing it, that would corrupt the sync). So when you don't have a queue, the sync is always completed between saves, but with lots of things to do, dropbox may keep the lock on the file for a longer time.

Don't know avout any swirly patterns off the top of my head, but maybe you can draw some simple ones using the chained arcs command [CARCD]

Nice. I really enjoy the versatility you've shown with CC.

I too remember my Amiga fondly, and it was one of the reason I couldn't get this exiting mapping program I saw in all the ads. I went PC a bit before you though, in 97.