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Re: BIG SPOILER: Messy map annotations
Post by isaac_newton   » Thu Mar 13, 2014 8:34 am

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jgnfld wrote:Personally, I'm STILL wondering!

As for the canal, yeah, that fits now that I think of it. When I drew that layer I was thinking it was unuseable, but that would be farther south due to the dams, etc., now that you remind me. I've fixed it on my master.

McGuiness wrote:Thanks! This was extremely helpful, since I kept wondering where the Army of Cliff Peak came from.

The only error I see on the map is that the canal from Guarnak to the Sylmahn gap is still intact. The Delthak turned around at Guarnak and headed west again. That may or may not be important, since the Delthak destroyed a large amount of the supplies stockpiled there, but the AoSG is probably still using that canal - or at least it did until the canal froze up.


One thing I found helpful was where you had used a different symbology for canals - at least those that had been wrecked. Often it is not easy to distinguish between a road and a canal just by the colours alone - both being dark! The next official map would benefit from that feature.
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Re: BIG SPOILER: Messy map annotations
Post by jgnfld   » Thu Mar 13, 2014 8:44 am

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When I just re-uploaded it I reduced the opacity on that layer so you now can see what's underneath to some degree. I had meant to do that originally and just forgot at the last moment.

isaac_newton wrote:...


One thing I found helpful was where you had used a different symbology for canals - at least those that had been wrecked. Often it is not easy to distinguish between a road and a canal just by the colours alone - both being dark! The next official map would benefit from that feature.
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Re: BIG SPOILER: Messy map annotations
Post by isaac_newton   » Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:03 am

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jgnfld wrote:When I just re-uploaded it I reduced the opacity on that layer so you now can see what's underneath to some degree. I had meant to do that originally and just forgot at the last moment.

isaac_newton wrote:...


One thing I found helpful was where you had used a different symbology for canals - at least those that had been wrecked. Often it is not easy to distinguish between a road and a canal just by the colours alone - both being dark! The next official map would benefit from that feature.


Hah - sorry - didn't mean any criticism of your work! I was thinking about the original pearls map and how often it is difficult to disambiguate road/canal by colour alone. Whereas, doing as you have done, it is v clear!
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