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[ykmm]

Hi all,

my name is Yann, 42, I have mainly an IT background (programming, system administration) and from time to time I do some graphics work for myself using gimp or inkscape (vectorizing images, digital image manipulation etc) I don't consider myself an artist, but my output is not that bad all things considered, but not even close to anything I can see on the guild (https://www.cartographersguild.com/a...7&d=1461530942).

Other interests of mine are music (started learning piano one year ago), roleplaying, comics, tv/movies. Even if I am not a creator I appreciate (and love to engage in) art criticism.

Being an IT person, I have a fundamental need to try to obtain maximum results with minimal work, by this I don't mean I don't like to work for long stretches of time, what I dislike is doing repetitive tasks that can be avoided or automated (available time being finite).

I've been playing D&D for about 4 years now, and a few days ago I had the idea of writing a little campaign to master.

I started thinking about the adventure I wanted to create, and one of the first things I needed was a location, I started browsing online for some maps, and found a number of them, but they all are bitmap images, which are very nice looking, but impractical to work with. After some thinking I realized that what I wanted something similar to google-earth/google-maps but for a fantasy world. Having already some knowledge about Geographic Information systems I decided that that was the way to go.

The best looking map I found of the world I wanted to create was from a user of the guild.

I didn't have all the required knowledge to correctly import the map and georeference it on the globe, so I asked a question on gis.stackexchange.com, got useful replies and was able to import the raster images.

More details about the process (if you are interested) can be read here:

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questi...-raster-images

One commenter asked if I could share the resulting work, and that inquiry sparked another question on rpg.stackexchange.com:

https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questi...or-free-to-use

Meanwhile I realized that even If I referenced the original forum post, I did not notify the original author about using the image in those sites or even ask his permission. It took a couple of days to get the posting permission. So now I'm here to do that, and also contribute back to his work if I can.

I need to reach 5 posts before replying in his thread (https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ad.php?t=11515), so if you have observations or questions of any kind please let me know.

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Hi there fellow IT admin and computer programmer. I'm curious what flavor of Linux do your prefer? Professionally and/or personally.

I use Ubuntu. Ubuntu server professionally and Ubuntu Studio (for krita and gimp and other great tools) for digitizing my pen drawn maps.

[ykmm]

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[ykmm]

Hi to You!

My preferred Linux distro is Debian and it derivatives, for a server I usually go with Debian unless I need the most recent version of packages and/or prefer stability, in which case it's ubuntu server. For a desktop environment I usually go with Linux Mint (because I must admit that Debian's desktop is pretty much horrible and Canonical has a very freestyle attitude on changing the default Window Manager under your nose). Mint has a good desktop environment which stays out of my way, remains consistent releases and lets me do my work (although recently I've switched to I3WM).

For music/piano I've been using Avlinux (which is also based on Debian) in dual boot. Recently for some small projects I used Alpine Linux which is really lightweight and imho a really nice distribution.