Small village near a river in a hilly landscape

[Francissimo]

Hi folks! This is a map i made for my work (i'm a cartographer in urbanism) hope you'll like it. The map was realised in qgis, photoshop and illustrator.
STSav-final.jpg
as usual i'll enjoy some feedbacks critics or rep

[ravells]

Wonderful. I am now officially your fan!

I love the style of your work. You have something really great. If I had one (tiny) crit it would be to make the grass texture a bit smaller. It looks great zoomed out but at full scale it looks a little big. There is a really great natural looking grass texture here: Spiral Graphics - Free Seamless Lush Terrain Textures

look for the texture called: Just add bison

[arsheesh]

Very nicely done! Looks very much like a realistic top-down view of an actual village. Kudos. Sorry, it looks like I can't rep you just yet.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[Francissimo]

Thanks guys, that's really a pleasant feeling to know a map is appreciated! Finding a good balance with the texture size so that they look good at all scales has always been difficult for me, that is really a big challenge to find the perfect texture, the website you just pointed seems like a gold mine, they'll probably be useful soon I was trying to do my own seamless texture but having a perfect result is damn hard. For the feeling of an actual village, the use of gis data is really helpfull as the placements of roads and buildings is the "real" one. They just need to be reworked so that they feel more natural, particularly forests.

[Sapiento]

Lovely map!

[Ilanthar]

I can't say I'm surprised by this excellent map (Vals of Saintonge? ). You confirm here that you have a unique style of your own imo.
Well done!

[Francissimo]

Thanks for the feedbacks guys, i really appreciate! Since i joined this community i feel a renewall in my cartography style, seeing other cartographers work with a focus on aesthetic is so stimulating when you come from the GIS world.
And yep Ilanthar that's still vals of saintonge, we have 112 towns on the territory so there's a lot of possible place to map.

[Katto]

Really good. The POI markers reminds me of The Sims or Sim City, but fit very well into the style.
Sorry, can't rep you yet

[Slylok]

Looking at this map makes me want to live there. c'est tres bon. je l'aime!

[Francissimo]

Looking at this map makes me want to live there. c'est tres bon. je l'aime!

Thx! the mayor of this town would be happy to hear that
For the app qgis i used, it is a free GIS software. It allows you to visualise vector or raster geotag data about real world. For exemple on this map i used a database about land use with existing roads, buildings rivers and topographic contour lines.. GIS softwares aren't very good for aesthetic purpose but it gives a quick and good basis for a map based on existing data. For exemple on that map i start with something like this on qgis,
ExQGIS.jpg
then export it in pdf to obtain the various layers of the map in vector format. There is quite some work to do after you obtain that pdf with raw data about your map, the shape of some layers like forest need to be reworked (in photoshop for me) for an aesthetic purpose. The huge advantage of that method is that you mainly focus on texturing, color choices and layer styles instead of redrawing all the elements of the map.