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[Blather]

WOW! Those look fantastic! You my good sir have quite a talent. Take a look at the Profantasy site and it shows some of their image catalogs. Or you can do a search for icons on Google. Google the type of icon you are looking for or just reduce the size or type of image it should return. You are on the right track, pun intended. The way you are depicting the images is dead on. They convey more information than just names on a map. If this game is for all ages it works so much the better. As for children, the image of your mine stop conjures up the sound of that machine. Making connections like this is a great way to get emergent experiences from playing a game.

[pavelvon]

Hi there,
I'm actually following the hints and thoughts to bring "icons" resp. images to the map.
I thought it would be easy to find suitable images, but alas! it took ages to find something suitable.
This leads me to the isometrics forums like pixel joint, where I found some beautiful stuff and hints.
But till I will be able to produce something on my own, I use any images possible .

So, here is the actual map. Some picts are still missing. If enyone has a good source of isometric buildings (actually some farms are needed ...) please let me know.
I'm using A3 page size in Gimp, but I exported this image to 1024x768 only as it's only for the overall preview purposes. If anybody wants more datail. I will upload it.

Sodor 2012-06-23 v02 testout IV.jpg

Cheers,