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    So here's a final (or next to final) version I am very proud of.
    Now it's about cartography and graphical aspects.

    Re-working things again with the help of g.plates was really productive but it also revealed inconsistencies in the direction of parts of plates I was confident about. This made me work a little harder and I admittedly spent a lot of time in the last days grinding all the details. Plates are as they are and I won't reconfigure them in any way (shape or movement). My adjustments also involved changing quite a bit the coastlines - these are not absolutely final as the work on the topographical map changes that a little bit. New mountains rose, a few valleys opened apart, a couple of lakes and inner seas found their way to the surface and a lot of islands popped up...

    So at the present state this is my candidate to "finished map". But I am wondering about the graphical sides of it, and here I call for the mapping experts here at the guild.
    wip_tectonics_nearlyfinal.jpg

    What strikes as missing? How's the color balance? How's readability?
    This is a modern map, sort of a reference map you would find on wikipedia today, and it is inspired (shamelessly) on this one.
    I am uncertain about adding curved arrows to show plate movement or any other stuff as I am worried that I won't be able to do that without harming the clean look it has now.
    Last edited by Pixie; 07-02-2014 at 04:30 PM.

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