Questions tagged [map-making]
For questions that have to do with the science or practice of drawing maps. If the question has to do with making maps this tag is a good fit. Note: This tag is about creating maps of physical features, not creating the physical features themselves nor using the maps for navigation. For that see the geography tag or navigation tag..
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How would the rhumblines look on a flat world with a pole in the centre?
So as I understand, rhumblines are useful for doing simple navigation where you care about keeping things simple and always moving at the same direction according to a compass. Useful for navigating ...
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Geodesic grid creator/editor?
After trying and inevitably failing to find a "perfect" planet generator for sake of setting up a (minimally distorted) global hexcrawl, I decided that I might as well buck up and do the ...
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How can I make my map more geographically and meteorogically correct? [closed]
I want to have a plausible planet, with accurate tectonic plates, continents, wind patterns/currents, etc. Any tips or resources I can study are greatly appreciated, and here is my map as of now.
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Mapping political boundaries in the Milky Way galaxy
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The Salutary Suzerain Eashmeelthfluischaotchaulpcreurmmoelshchurbshrulth (we call him The Great Eel, now kneel!) has declared that in His Greatest Beneficence, He shall divide the Galaxy ...
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Ocean Currents - I can't seem to figure it out
I have watched several tutorials on ocean currents, but either my map is kindof tricky, or I am just too stupid to figure it out.
As you can see, I got to some point by just strictly following ...
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Location of a fictional star system in our night sky
I created a top-down map of inhabited star systems for my fictional world, including a fictional star system called the Fadel System, which is located 5 light-years away. While making a top-down map ...
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Does my map make sense for a medieval world?
I've created accurate maps for a medieval world, but they are used out of universe only. The characters in the story have wildly inaccurate maps that reflect the available methods of the time. I ...
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Please review this map
This is my first time ever making a map. I have a fantasy story idea I have been slowly working on the past few months. Getting characters, etc down. And I have been making the map as I go as well. ...
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Are there any good map builders for a 3d, non-planar map of unusual shape?
I'm currently in the start of worldbuilding for a TTRPG game set in a horror-sci-fi-fantasy pocket dimension that the characters fall through out of our standard world.
The map is non-planar (or ...
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What would the climates/biomes on my fantasy continent be?
I've roughly marked out where I think a desert might naturally form according to the mountains, and plotted the rivers in a way that I think makes sense, but what other climates might I expect on this ...
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What types of themed maps should I put for my Fictional Planet? (Sorry for making it opinion based) [closed]
I have been working on this Fictional Planet for about 4 years and reset a couple of times along the way. I started working on maps of the whole planet with themes. So far, I have land features, ...
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How many cultures can a world have without being too complicated? [closed]
I'm trying to create a dystopia that takes place on Pangea Proxima, and I'm using Azgaars Pantasy Map Generator to do it. As you probably know, Azgaars has a feature where the map has different ...
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Where would mountains make sense on those land masses?
I created landmasses thanks to Azgaars Fantasy Map generator.
It was not based on any consideration so far, like tectonic plates due to lack of expertise. It was done purely based on a personal ...
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Equivalent of cardinal directions on a tidally-locked planet?
I am making a game with the explorable world divided into multiple labeled regions. There is great convenience and simplicity in being able to reference the cardinal directions when labeling these ...
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Would the rain shadow effect cause this area to be a desert?
The arrows are the wind currents. This would affect this the most. The purple triangles are the mountains. They are similar in height to the Ural Mountains of western Russia.The turquoise area is ...
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