With the Community Atlas village competition ongoing, this seems like a good time to just sit down with a simple village map. Quiet little place without any horrible secrets.

As usual, you can see the start time in your timezone in the left sidebar of the forum, or by visiting the video on YouTube.

After making the map, you can use View -> Move Origin to put the 0,0 wherever you want. I recommend turning on snap and cursor snap to make placing it in the exact center more easily

Welcome to the community. Looking forward to seeing your maps, and remember, we're always here to help.

Everything can be named of course, but I feel that huge plain between the desert and the coastal ares deserves a name. It is such a prominent feature. The rest of the mountain ranges, hills and forests would also love a name.

If you want people to freely look around the map and zoom in where they want, the gallery is a better option, but if there are specific places you wish to highlight, it may be better to post those views in the post like this. But you'll always have the option of doing both as well.

Seems like that fill is set up with a darker fill than those used in the map.

There are a couple of ways to fix it:

1- Fixing it in-map:

1. Draw the entity
2. Unlock groups ("Locked" button in the very bottom right of the UI)
3. Hit Change Properties
4. Right click in map, pick More -> Fill Style
5. Right click to bring up the fill style dialog, pick the bitmap file tab
6. Select CA101_Parchment from the dropdown, make sure the radio button for "this is the currently selected fill style" is enabled, and hit ok
7. Hit D for do it
8. In the Change properties dialog, set fill style to CA128_Parchment A Light and hit ok
9. Lock groups again.

(Edit. Forget the second way I just typed for now. Seems like there is something else happening when the tool is used. Investigating.)

Note that the fills here are all hatch styles, meaning they are vector entities, so map performance will not be much better compared to just using symbols, but it will certainly be easier to map larger regions.