Mar-May '22 Lite Challenge: Phylakas Kataigithas

[4maram]

Now I discovered the tool degraded, and it does the same as the "Epileptic B&W" map in less than 1 min. I dumped nearly 3 hours to make that map and I could have done it faster!

[Bogie]

Coming along nicely, and learning and refining new techniques is a big part of why we hold these challenges! No time mapping is ever wasted!

[4maram]

I have remade the mountains taking the slope edges and making multiple gradient maps centered on the slope edges. That let me understand better the inclinations of each slope when I put those gradients in different layers and added them. Whith that done, I've remade and simplified the river map, but there are much more, although shorter, rivers.

WIP7.png

Blue: rivers
Green: sea & lakes
Red: depressions
Black-white: mountains

I guess I'll have to relocate one or two villages and remake the paths.

[4maram]

Okay, I'm in the last steps of the mapping.

I've put the new rivers in place and drawn their depressions over the land. (Upgraded heightmap)
The villages are going to remain where they were.
Also, each village is going to be able to provide enough to make one bridge in their territory, cities more.
That gives opportunities to have a more complex road network (Purple-Pink).

Now what remains are just the icons. Also, I'll try to make the heightmap in color different from black and white, but icons take priority.
After those will come the names for things.

###Lastest WIP###
WIP8.png

[4maram]

Ok, this is the final colored heightmap plus rivers:

WIP9a.png

And this is the same map with the paths and the icons of utilities, defenses and villages (yes, cities are still pending).

###Latest WIP###
WIP9b.png

[4maram]

This is version 1.0 of the map.

I'm releasing the map in two languages: English (for the majority of cartographers that would see this, first one) and Spanish (because in its alternate universe this would be released in Spanish, second one).

###Latest WIP###
WIP10a.png WIP10b.png

If you want to print it, it has a size of 88.26cm X 48.49cm, and a resolution of 139px per inch.

PS:
Would you believe that I almost posted the maps without including the Compass Rose?

[Bogie]

Nice work 4maram! Lots of tiny details.

[4maram]

Thank you.

[4maram]

This is version 1.2.3

The map on the top left was a zoom in of the strait but it's unfinished. And I won't be able to dedicate any more time.

WIP11.png

So I'll leave it bigger with some names but without the zoom-in map.

### Latest WIP ###
WIP11a.png

Yes, I'm using only Spanish for this map.

[Bogie]

Looking good.

I edited your WIP Hashtag. It wasn't working because you didn't have a space between the # and the letters on both sides.
I fixed it but it picked up the wrong map. When you use the WIP Hashtag be sure you only have one graphic in that post.