The reversal of land and sea only happened because I wanted to be able to use very soft wide blends between colours on the land without having to obey the coastline.

It's actually the way water is usually done in a city map, so think of it as being an extremly large planetary city map.

EDIT: and if you get stuck at all just shout again. Things might not be as simple as I've described, or work the way I imagine they will, but we will get there in the end.

Ok, that's good to know :)

For the landmass and ocean I recommend Darklands Overland style from the 2021 annual. Read the mapping guide for that one carefully since the sea goes on top of the land. That will give you a parchment land mass and will allow the different colours blended onto the land to extend right up to the coast despite being broadly blurred to give that soft colouration effect. there are set colours for the drawing tools, but you can clone and modify the drawing tools if you want different colours.

Once the land is put down and all the colours sorted out I think your ideas for the symbols are pretty good as it goes, though you might find it a little tricky matching them on a comparatively dark background like Darklands Overland. If that happens use the Mike Schley inks style and add a Blend Mode sheet effect to the symbols sheets set to Multiply to get rid of the white parts.

As for the structure symbols Remy has already explained those.

That leaves just the escarpment symbols. The closest I can think to that style is possibly the escarpments from the new E Prybylski Watercolor style in this year's annual, but they might not match that well.

You can easily set up your own House style, and then use it to create your own Street styles.

The process is shown in several of the live mapping sessions. I will be back to edit and add a few links when I've found a good one.

EDIT: Try this one, Julian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dLtzBiObwY

I have noticed that sometimes the sheet effects stop working for reasons I can't quite nail down to being because of A or B (if I could identify the cause I'd have reported it ages ago), but usually unchecking the Activate Sheet Effects checkbox, then checking it again and then clicking Apply will sort it out.

If that doesn't work please can you upload the FCW file, Elfling?

EDIT: to take a screen shot press the "prt sc" button and then paste in a comment by pressing CTRL+V

EDIT2: Also check if you have any layers hidden. If the MERGE layer in particular is hidden the effects aren't likely to work correctly if they work at all.

Hi Helen :)

I'm not sure I really understood the problem, but if you hide all the sheets called TERRAIN... except fro the "TERRAIN colour" sheet there are patches of colour visible. Maybe you just need to reorganise the sheet order?