@WeathermanSweden - Do you believe in coincidences?

Well, I said just a few days ago that I had lost those shaded mountains I did, and this morning I had one of those FB memory things from this day in November, 2018. It was this pair of images. I might have lost the mountains and all the work I did towards them, but I still have these it seems. If the colours seem strange that is because the image part of both these mountains had to be toned down to a darkish brown to come back to being the same colour as the paper once they where shaded by the map file. So the colours I applied were similarly distorted. They look kind of oddly metallic, don't they.

I actually made the mountains and their shaded map files in Blender, where I once had a CC3+ map file shader set up. All that is gone too, thanks to Blender updates.

You can clearly see the edge around the symbol because it has to be cut off rather sharply. And since the only way to make it blend is to have the background uniformly the same all the way around the base of the mountain (no real amount of texturing), I decided it would be an extremly limited style - no more than a 5 minute curiosity and not really much use in the long run.

Some part of me wishes I had taken more care to preserve that work, since I will probably have to redo it at some point in the future!

But anyway - that was my experiment into the idea 3 years ago.

Hi Everyone! :D

In this week's Live Mapping session Ralf will create an overland map with the Black & White style from the 2008 Cartographer's Annual (Vol 2), while updating the style in the process.

This is an excellent opportunity to pick up useful information if you ever decide to duplicate and modify an existing style for yourself.

Come along and join in, or watch the recording later :)

Think I've got it now.

A reedbed isn't as dense as it looks from the side. You can see the mud between the stems in overhead photographs, which means I can use Symbols in Area and allow sufficient spacing to keep the number of symbols down just a bit.

And there will be burnt out buildings as well, if there is time.

This evening, though, I got distracted by the idea of reed beds for the marshy/boggy/swampy areas that were requested. Not quite there, but close, I think

I've turned it into a bonfire and made some other fires for other kinds of things.

There will be smoke as well - when I am happy with the look of it.