Wyvern is very generous in remarking upon my work. All my maps are made by using contour maps, usually at 1:100000 to 1:24000 scale and I mostly trace the contours and other features. My attempts at more generic maps look more like a 6 year old's scribbling. I was chastised mightily in third grade for my inability in penmanship, coloring, and staying inside the lines...

Having said that, I love drawing contour maps.

Jim was very, very talented in crafting maps. I was always impressed, regardless of whether or not it was a world or a starship or something else.

I was watching a Great Courses covering the dinosaur killer where they discussed the internal ring on earth as well on the moon. Otherwise I would not have thought to bring it up.

In my map making, which sometimes requires large maps, I have been known to use everything from 8.5 x 11 up to 13 x 19 inches, with and without overlapping. Sometimes I may do the map in several different sizes Hexes as a method to provide less clutter on the map with unit pieces. I also do something sort of weird with the Fit to Page or Scale Factor. Frequently, I make map hexes where 1 hex is 1 km along the verticle axis, the same as a 1:50,000 map sheet, but I have also done 1:100,000 maps, and occasionally 1:250,000 maps.

Thanks Sue!