Wow, that's pretty cool.
if you want to compare you own generated relief with mother-nature one, or if you just need inspiration, you can go to this site http://www.maps-for-free.com/
don't forget to remove all the unneeded layers (google, waterbodies)
FWIW
Pyer
Wow, that's pretty cool.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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I know it's a little late, but this is awesome. Thanks!
Excellent thanks, adding it to the sticky on real world map data.
Loved it, bookmarked it! Thanks for bringing this post back up! I need it and hadn't seen it before.
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Assuming I stick with fantasy cartography, I'd like to become a World Builder, laying out not only a realistic topography, but also the geopolitical boundaries and at least rough descriptions of the countries and societies.
This adds a real perspective to the way the roads and towns work with the landscape. A great exploratory tool
Thanks to Pyer for the original post. Been looking for something like this recently with little success!! Have some rep !![]()
"Aye The skies be clear , the seas be calm and the winds be with us .....
ARGH!! but the damn compass be broken!! "
Capt. Noah Swalter Last voyage of the " Silver Crest"
Awesome! Just being able to see the relief of the area where I live in such resolution is something I've been hankering for. Repped to the extent of my ability![]()
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn't."
-- Samuel Langhorne Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain. (1897) Following the Equator.