You've now got the outline of the palette of your map.Are there any specific things you want to give iconographic or pictographic images for? These could be, marking unique or important things, or illustrations and embellishments like the fantasy monsters on medieval maps.You won't label everything of that type, but you need to fix before you start which types of labels can exist. Go through your list above, and pick out the ones which you want to be things that can have labels. Work out what level of labelling you want.Any non-physical regions ( toponyms) - for example, districts?.Buildings (and when will you pick out individual buildings, and when do you show blocks? And how many types of block - are there types, e.g.Other natural features (woods? Types of grassland? Or even, if it's small scale, individual trees?).Rivers, streams (and how many types? Varying or constant widths?).Roads (and how many types of road, lane, alley, etc?).This will become the 'palette' you have to work with. Decide what details (' traits') you are including.It's not half as daunting a task as it initially looks - the key is in the preparation.īroadly speaking, a typical cartography workflow (minus the research and geolocation) is:
If you'd rather start from scratch, you're talking about cartography with the difficult fact-finding and accuracy stuff cut out.
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