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...
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...
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....
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...
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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Dollhouse Syndrome = The temptation to turn a map into a picture, obscuring the goal of the image with the appeal of cute, or simply available, parts. Maps have clarity through simplification.