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Originally Posted by Ghalev
Granted, it was sketchy because I was impatient to be playing with the map, but I picked a tree population of silver maples and similar deciduous trees, and they are BIG. As to the water situation, I was thinking of a stream or a river or something -- and a well in the town square sounds fun, too, though I'm not sure it would look like more than a dot at this scale! (Does that mean I need to add a Symbol Key?
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That leave that lightened background as an obvious computer element to the map. I'd keep the colours at there original saturation and just remove the black lines so that it looks like the cartographer painted tree lines close to the label, but not through it.
It's all good. And thanks, really.
