More on the Map

Peter Saint-Clair — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:19:58 +0000

So, I finally finished the basic outline of the map in Adobe Illistrator, but there’s still a ton of work to do. What I did, essentially, is trace every single road at a magnification of 1600% so that I could capture the subtle nuainces in them. Did I need to do that? Probably not, but it looks better, I think. Illistrator has a neat feature that allows you to apply a sort of brush stroke to a line or a gorup of lines after they are already drawn, so when I make my own brushes, I may find out that I need to tweak the roads around a bit to make them fit together better. I tried to trace the roads right down the middle so that when I make them more than just a skinny line with my custom brush, they shouldn’t need much more work. I hope not. Anyways, here’s the outline of the town thus far:

I probably looks like nothing’s there because the picture is so big and the lines are so small, but if you click on it, you’ll be able to see it better. The red lines are the smaller streets. The blue line is for medium streets (well, there’s only one for now). The green is for major streets and the yellow is the railroad.

So, as you can see, the layout, at least as far as the roads are concerned, has not changed much. There a some places where I deleted some roads or added some, but overall, it’s the same basic town. Just for comparative purposes, here is the actual map that I stitched together from Bing maps:

Anyways, the next time you see this map, I’ll have most of the general aspects done (i.e., the roads brushes, some colorization). Lemme know what you think!

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More on the Map