Atlas of Melero
My first map post here! I'd like to share one series of maps as an example of the maps I've been doing. Thesa maps depict the continent of Melero with four different maps, hence the title "atlas". Melero is a continent, or maybe a group of islands, which are divided between eleven countries. Melero doesn't have a clear spatial or temporal context, but it could be a place in our present world.
The maps have been drawn 2012-2014, with different pens to A4-sized paper. A photocopier has helped to make many versions of the same place. The colouring has been made with coloured pencils, so the colours are very light. I tried to scan these maps but I could'n get the colours to not disappear, so I photographed them. Sorry for the bad quality.
None of these maps was ment to be a finished cartographic product as such, which is the reason to the lack of labels, legend and a proper layout. Nevertheless, these have been finished maps for many years, so I thought it's better to post them here to Finished Maps. It's possible that I will make some day an another map of Melero, perhaps one with labels on it. (I never did a labeled map to this place, maybe I wasn't interested in names back then. I even coined the name of the continent today). I've now found a lot of sources for inspiration from this forum, and it would be interesting to try to use computer for example colouring one of the maps or overlaying these maps together. I already added my name on those with computer, so why not labels. There might be more maps of Melero in the future.
The first map is a general map of the continent. It shows the mountain ranges, rivers, lakes, borders of the countries, cities, main roads and ferry connections between islands.
Melero_general_tag.jpg
The second map is a transportation network map, but not very succesful I think. Green lines are main roads, red lines are railroads, blue lines are ferry routes. Brown and yellow lines are roads and ferries that cross a national border, it looks a bit confusing. There are also sea lanes used by ships drawn on the sea.
Melero_transport_tag.jpg
The third map is an elevation map. It shows the generalised contours for the whole continent and nothing else. No borders, roads or cities. Five elevation zones used, two for lowlands and three for mountaineous areas.
Melero_elevation_tag.jpg
I like to go deep into the relief of landmasses and how it effects to the course of rivers. The fourth map is about drainage basins and river network. The catchment areas of major rivers are drawn with black line, rivers with blue. The map is made on top of the elevation map. No man-made features in this map either.
Melero_watersheds_tag.jpg
All comments are welcome! For example about colouring or realisticity of features or if you have any development ideas.
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