Create a map from a given coastline

[Tonquani]

Fairly simple this one, but in the vein of the current challenge (Jan 2018 ), but instead of creating a map from labels, in this one you are provided with a coast outline (which may include lakes/islands etc at the discretion of the challenge setter), and you flesh it out.

It's up to you to decide which side of the given lines is water, and which is land, but we should end up with lots of vaguely similar looking maps, the challenge being how we interpret the given coastline!

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[nopkin]

I second this idea and would love to see a challenge based on it.

As I mentioned in another thread, as a beginner, I do need something like this to kickstart the creative process. The January challenge was awesome in this regard. That is not to say that drawing a tribute map is a bad idea, not at all, but I found that getting some concrete guides (like the labels in the last challenge or the coastlines mentioned here) helped me a lot to get a larger map done. If it weren't for those labels, I would have never thought that I could make such a map.

On the other hand, the current Lite challenge is to map a mysterious entrance. While it's a very cool idea, it is quite vague - or it allows a lot more freedom - which is probably a great thing for advanced cartographers, but I feel that for a beginner, it's a bit too broad. (Other map making rookies here: feel free to contradict me if that is not the case for you.)

So, yeah, I do realize that some people might not agree with this, but since we were invited to vote on these ideas, here's my opinion...

[Tonquani]

Couldn't have said it better myself!