Today saw more building in ’Ridia. I think I’m about 2/3rds through now. I just pasted my notes of colours and symbols onto a box to see what it would look like. I’ll have to enlarge it for the final map I think because the below is a cropped screenshot. not yet got enough to export it and get a meaningful image. I’m really having fun with ’Ridia.

A local view of ’Ridia from yesterday-- half finished.

The map is being drawn using Jon Roberts Overland style but I’m building the town using Jonathan Roberts Cities template. Up to now I’ve avoided the structures in the Cities template simply because I had got it into my head that I hated the shapes, so I decided to see whether I actually could use them to create a town with them, and I’ve come to like them but strictly on a very small scale! I’m also using colour to help differentiate types of structures, e.g Civic Offices and Harbour area as well as residential areas.

The map below is just a rough outline of the town that I’ve named ’Ridia. I build towns by placing the structures first and then put the roads in, the opposite to a great many of my fellow mappers but that’s how my brain works best.

By the way, were the two templates done by the same person?

Thanks both of you - good job I’m infintely more competent than I was this time last year or i’d be plaguing you for more 'how to's!

This is an entirely 'made up as I went along’ map, I was experienting using Ralf’s Pencil Sketch template, before I start a map for the Atlas, not that I’ll be using that template.