Just a reminder that this Live Mapping session is set for this Thursday evening.

If you previously booked a reminder from Youtube you should still get it, even though it's all happening a fortnight later than planned.

You're right. The drawing tools all want to draw things on either RIVER, or RIVER MOUTH.

Rather than change the drawing tools it might be easier for this one map to change the sheet names for those two sheets so that the drawing tools all automatically draw on the intended sheets like this.

However, you will still have to conciously pick the right sheet between those two when you want to draw anything riverish, or everything will end up on the RIVER sheet.

I will let Ralf know.

As for the symbol size I couldn't say without seeing a screen shot of what you mean.

You can mess around with the global sun settings (right click the hourglass). Just playing with the Intensity a bit can give a more stormy appearance.

Though this only seems to affect the roof shading in this map. If you look at the shadow effects they are the same. To alter those you would need to adjust the shadow effects themselves.

Where you tend to use a lot of raw colour polygons and draw your own shadows, you could do something by playing with the palette colours, I guess, but that would be a whole lot more fiddly. Overcast light is much colder than sunlight. So you would need to turn everything more blue-greyish. Maybe a single overlay sheet might do it? Kill the bright hot yellows and reds a bit?

Yes. That's what I was saying. I've noticed several times before now that if something is quite small, or in this case thin, shadow effects don't always work as expected.

I tried little tiny people for the new city style, but I gave up because it was impossible to get them to cast nice shadows where they were so tiny.

It might be easier to see this without the grid for now.