Maidhc O Casain
Maidhc O Casain
About
- Username
- Maidhc O Casain
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- Birthday
- May 23, 1967
- Location
- Arkansas, USA
- Real Name
- Mike Patterson
- Rank
- Surveyor
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Aligning two separate maps when you are unable to see the one at the back
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What got you into cartography?
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Britannia (Parchment World)
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What's your favourite overland style?
I have always been strongly drawn to the Herwin Wielink style - I just absolutely love the look of the map as a whole and the character of the symbols. However, I almost never use it other than to take a symbol here and there for other maps, because of the lack of symbols. What it does, it does extraordinarily well (IMHO), but it doesn't do much.
Not a specific style comment, but rather a general look - I often, but by no means always, lean towards subdued colors and subtle color shifts rather than the bright, bold maps styles (Dark Realms or Parchment Maps, for example, over Sarah Wroot or Mercator).
Mike Schley is impossible to beat for sheer variety of symbols, of course.
Hope this helps.
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Britannia (Parchment World)
I added the version of the map without the mist over Hybernia to my gallery, in case anyone wanted to look at it. To me, the mist really adds to the map and Hybernia isn't nearly as interesting without it. In this game, almost nothing is known about Hybernia, so I didn't put anything there other than the major lakes and rivers (w/ my own mishmash of Gaeilge names).
Both are now linked in the OP.





