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Yesterday, 07:39 PM
The Finished Maps section of the Guild here ( https://www.cartographersguild.com/forumdisplay.php?f=36 ) has thousands of maps that can be useful as...
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Yesterday, 06:18 PM
Cartography is the art of abstraction to fulfill a purpose. You may find that several simpler maps (or layers on a simpler map) are much more useful...
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05-23-2024, 09:10 AM
https://docs.qgis.org/3.34/en/docs/training_manual/processing/no_data.html might be helpful for using QGIS to add two layers and a constant together....
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05-22-2024, 08:27 PM
Something generally in the concept of Tanaka's illuminated contours ( https://mountaincartography.icaci.org/mt_hood/pdfs/kennelly1.pdf has some...
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05-20-2024, 08:15 PM
Caveman elf? That's a new one. Feel free to post any of your maps and we will be happy to offer (usually helpful) suggestions.
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05-19-2024, 11:35 AM
That definitely removes the feel that the legend area is a bit mismatched. It does highlight that the badges around the edges of the piece are all...
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05-17-2024, 01:11 AM
Did you try emailing the authors to see if they have a higher-resolution version that they might be willing to share?
When you tried the software...
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05-04-2024, 12:31 PM
You've got the general form down, but it's (as it almost always is) how the details are arranged. Looking at the example map, the initial thing that...
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05-03-2024, 07:37 PM
The most likely reason that the map seems sterile is that it seems to have no identifiable purpose. Is it for nagivation? Is it for illustration of a...
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04-29-2024, 09:40 AM
A market sim needs to track three major items: resources, demands, and transport costs. High demand will increase the range at which resources will...
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04-29-2024, 09:15 AM
The premise of Central Place Theory is that goods/services have a natural range. The natural range for low-value bulk goods is fairly small. They...
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04-28-2024, 02:04 AM
Oh, and, um, you don't need steel for gun barrels or lead for ammo. You'd be amazed what rope wrapped around hollowed-out logs pushing rocks out the...
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04-28-2024, 01:52 AM
Go read the book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. Or at least read its Wikipedia page and the list of references / associations. The book...
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04-27-2024, 02:18 PM
Start by searching for "central place theory" and it will lead you down more rabbit holes than you ever considered. The basic notion is that goods...
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