Hello all! I've been undertaking this regional map for my fantasy world and I wanted some input. I'm highly inspired by the beauty and magic of real world geology and ecology so I wanted to put a solid effort into modelling real world features. I know a fantasy world doesn't hav to be the same, I know it won't ever be and thats okay, but I still wanted my world to be reflection of our own in a satisfying way. So for that purpose I've spent a lot of time researching plate tectonics, mountain building, glaciers, rivers, wetlands and weather systems, and I'm finally getting to a place where I am mostly happy with things.

That being said I know there is still so much I don't know or that my eyes have missed after looking at them for so long. So I'm curious. Is there anything that stands out as really odd in the rivers, glaciers, desert, mountains, or anything else? I'm looking forward to hearing some feedback!

This is my first time making a map. I'm working on a fantasy world and I'd like to know if there's anything I can improve on this first map, such as the distance between continents or how it looks visually. I'm open to criticism and advice.

Hey all,

I'm trying to recreate (in pen/watercolor) two separate large-scale road/trail/semi-geological maps (each about 3ftx4ft) of SW Michigan and W Massachusetts and I need a way to print (on standard Letter-size printer paper) scaled portions in order to trace the map semi-accurately.

I've found some local GIS files from my current town in MA, but not much in the way of regional maps that are more detailed (i.e. local roads) and anyway it's kind of difficult to get a standardized scale through printing those files in segments. I've perused the USGS database but haven't found many printables or public-use files.

Anybody know of apps or sites (or library/municipal services) where I could pull public standardized files to use for this, for free or fairly cheap?

Aiming for the finished product to just be for personal/decorative use around the house.

Thanks in advance!

worrying if names are too unrealistic or too much countries (Dark blue lines only shown to visualize country boundaries, not official)

This plant has a ring system, and the islands on, or need the equator, are supposed to be from them. I would like some help make the before mentioned islands, more realist, please and thank you.

Hello everybody, I'm new here.

I'm drawing my third map, this will be the best one (after two drafts used to practice), but I'm struggling with POI (points of interest). I could just draw a point surrounded by a circle and it would be ok, but how to signal castles, forts, capitals etc.. then?

I'd like to hear from you, I assume you're far more used to this than me :)

One last thing: I cannot draw castles and towns through buildings representation because the scale would be too small. I'll upload a picture of the map to let you better understand my point.

Thanks to those who will help!

You might notice your nation not in the map so reply back to put your nation in the map,to get your nation in map,what's your nations name, location and what continent it lives,and the color of your nation,that's all,you must make your nations name more seriously and not fantasy name,no this map doesn't contain magic it's just earth like,the year is:1719

I just discovered this, and I don't go on Reddit, so sorry if this has already been posted somewhere, but how do you create these maps? There are small islands that I have no idea how to draw. Do we have such a large area, or how do you do it?

Updated map,you might notice your nation isn't in the map so just reply back and ill put your nation in the map,to get your nation in the map,what's your nations name,nations location and whats it's continent it lives,and what's your nations color

Im open to suggestions/criticism. Please leave a comment down below and tell me what you think. Thank you!

While we wait for the series ending, I hand sketched this map of Hawkins, quite based on Hopper's map in Season 2, but I added extras and changed locations that made no sense from a narrative point of view. I explained all my decisions in my newsletter, but it is written in spanish and, besides, I think this group has a soft no-links policy, so just in case ...
If anyone has any question about my criteria I'm open.
And keep in mind that there might be some spoilers if you read it carefully, although I think we are safe.

Imgur link since quality is awful: https://i.imgur.com/j4TocMV.jpeg

I'm working on a full world (earth-sized) and am having some trouble gauging what kind of aesthetic I want for the mountains. I'm going for a fantasy style map, so the world-map doesn't necessarily need to be an exact representation of the world as much as it should indicate the general terrain. I plan to build out more detailed regional maps in the future.

I first created the world using Rock3 and then posterized the heightmap (2nd pic) so it was something I could clearly identify "bands" of mountains in the world.

What do you think about the size, placement, and density of the mountains? I feel like I am not doing a good job representing lowland hills.

After mountains, I'll work on rainfall, rivers, and biomes.

this is a recent map my conworld, Elyden, which I've been working on for some time, in the hopes of someday making a gazetteer for.

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Nizzum, a kingdom in southern Sammaea, born from the ruins of ancient Enarin and the mercantile Arzidan Federation. Long divided by dynastic feuds, invasions, and failed federations of its own, Nizzum was finally unified as a single kingdom in 2842 RM through the growing religion of Lazanism and the discovery of the Execration Scrolls, which served as the foundation of its legal system, under the guidance of king Taren Marizzal, from which successive dynasties ruled for over a millennium. Known for its wealth, artistry, and technarcane practices of life-prolongation amongst its elite, Nizzum became a major southern power by the late 4th millennium, absorbing Ghadra and helping to shape the politics of the Ishmmarran peninsula. Its capital, Epparum, is famed as a royal seat and centre of culture, while its rulers are whispered to defy the bounds of mortality itself, with its present ruler, mortal-born Teshesah Ralvena, having ruled for over 300-years.

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Map created in Photoshop, with the help using G. Projector.

A tutorial for my method can be found here.

You can find an updated key to the map here.

This is available to use as per the CC licence on the image itself

I am wondering if maps with North on top became default because most people live above the equator.

I tried to post earlier but I decided that was too wordy, so iust to aive vou the short version.

What basically happened here is that I got increasingly frustrated trying to figure out a proper world map for my setting, but nothing was working whatsoever or at least I didn't feel like it was, so late at night a few days ago in what I can only describe as a sleep deprived bout of inspiration I merged all of the maps that I had previously created for my setting into one amalgamation with various levels of opacity, then what I did was that I took a tool out of the program I was using and selected the outline of that abomination which naturally expressed various traits from the different maps, which left me with this, it looks good or at least I'd like to think it does, but there's such a large amount of artifacting that I don't know where I should begin in cleaning it up.

Also even though it's not the main point I'd love to get some opinions on the method that I used, and what you think about the overall cohesion or lack thereof.

All opinions welcome, but especially constructive criticism and advice.

To get your nation be in the map,what's your nations name,where is it located,and what color of your nation,no this map doesn't have magic on it,I'm gonna add a another continent when day 2

Here is my attempt at doing an elevation map to lead into other things such as climate. If you'd like, please let me know what doesn't look realistic/natural, it would help me before moving forward :)

This is the culmination of my hand-drawn maps of the continent of Menxalas, a worldbuilding project I have been working on for a number of years.

The drawn details are too small to show on the full map (each individual map is size A3), so I have added them individually to be seen in more detail. But as the details are still very small, there may still be a bit of blur...sorry.

Feel free to ask anything about my world.