Since I can never just focus on one thing at a time, today I've been messing around with getting some smaller scale maps for city map inserts, something on the order of 1:100,000 to 1:250,000 scale.

I've mostly been using Gaea to enhance the existing DEM that I have, just adding additional erosion structures to fill in details. The most challenging part of this is ensuring that I don't change the watersheds/existing rivers that I've already established at a larger scale too much.

Anyway, I also can't help myself when it comes to trying to get satellite imagery-esque views, so I ran the detailed DEM through Gaea again to try and get something that looked realistic.

roshkas_satellite_test.PNG

I've left off roads because I'll need to rework them slightly for the detailed view.

Here's what it looks like in reference to the larger region:

roshkas_satellite_test_overview.PNG

All in all, I'm pretty happy with how the test turned out. It might be more challenging, though, when I need to enhance regions that don't have as strong of and erosion effect. I don't think I'll be including satellite imagery in my atlas, but it certainly is fun to play around with!