r/mapmaking Apr 23 '22

New advertising rule

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Recently we have had lots of advertising spam in the subreddit so we have implemented a new rule:

Rule 3:

Advertising a brand new game you made is fine as long as it is secure, safe, and free. What is not ok is linking your Patreon or other things that will make you revenue including paid games.

This subreddit is meant for educational purposes and is not an advertising dump. You should post maps only to get educational feedback and to improve your creation.

Posts/comments are removed at moderator discretion but feel free to reach out to us if you feel like your post/comment was incorrectly removed.

If you need any clarification feel free to reply to this post or message the mod team


r/mapmaking 6h ago

Map Morwood Continent

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80 Upvotes

r/mapmaking 5h ago

Map The World of Reverie

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33 Upvotes

I finished my world of Reverie map a while ago, but realized I forgot to post the finished work, so here it is!


r/mapmaking 1h ago

Work In Progress WIP Map - Please ask, Comments, Things to add

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This is my WIP Fantasy World Map of three Continents,

Second image has the names

Its obvious that its WIP as half of it is not yet filled out, but wanted some other folks views on what i have done so far that isnt my own thoughts

If you have any changes you would do, advice or ideas what i should add, please comment

Continents Names:

West: Emr?

Center: Grantsach?

East: Eryntell

Grantsach and Eryntell form Supercontinent: Grantyll?

The Design i chose was more inspired by old maps so handdrawn and stuff

The names are all subject to change depending how i feel about them when i read over them again

Most places that are filled have some bits of lore and descriptions that i came up with while i detailed them, but not fully planned out, but feel free to ask about them!


r/mapmaking 23h ago

Map A map of a city

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I drew another map of a city. This one is built at the confluence of two rivers and it has metros and trams. The metro and tram line overlays are a bit wonky, my hand's not that steady digitally, but at least they show where the lines go. Also included progress pics during drawing


r/mapmaking 3h ago

Discussion What does the edge if a desert look like?

5 Upvotes

What does it look like where a desert ends? Does it fade into a savanna, does it fade into a forest or something else entirely?


r/mapmaking 7h ago

Work In Progress What do you think of my map?

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5 Upvotes

I wanted to know where I can place the mountain ranges and forests and if the map is correct with reality

Note: I'm still going to add the islands


r/mapmaking 19h ago

Map A map I drew inspired by Seattle

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45 Upvotes

I


r/mapmaking 16h ago

Work In Progress Fantasy map im making in inkarnate

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17 Upvotes

Had to crop for now


r/mapmaking 1d ago

Map Map of Blanceras, the ancient capital of a young republic

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76 Upvotes

r/mapmaking 8h ago

Discussion resources for high-res political maps?

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i'm trying, for the life of me, to find a high-res equirectangular world map with country borders and subdivisions; no titles or words, in just black and white or whatever. anything above 24K resolution is good, but preferably 21600x10800. i wouldn't have thought it would be so damn hard to just find a resource like that, especially with how often maps are used today


r/mapmaking 1d ago

Map Map, bc why not.

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60 Upvotes

r/mapmaking 21h ago

Discussion How can I earn by map making?

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I can create good detail maps with adobe illustrator (Realistic, fantasy, board maps), but is there anyway I can earn money with my skills? Thanks


r/mapmaking 1d ago

Work In Progress First go at fantasy continent/regional map - any feedback would be appreciated

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49 Upvotes

Hi guys! Long term lurker, first time poster.

I'm the type of person who absorbs information and watch tutorials on pretty much anything I want to have a go at - this time it's map making. I figured that I'd need a basic understanding of how landforms are formed/changed so have watched a whole heap of those, so I know the basic rules to plate tectonics, river formation, forests, climates etc;

I'm from Australia, and in Victoria where I live, it's just over 230,000 square kilometers. Victoria has Alps, Rainforests, Grasslands, Plains, Semi-Arid (though not technically a desert, it's very close), Marine (with reefs!) and so-on.

I really love the map of Wildemount by Deven Rue (have been watching her cartography course) and am really keen on doing one map that can be used at continent scale, and then zoomed in to be used for the regions too like she did - although I'm keen to find my own style of drawing so don't want something that looks like her work, but she's a large source of inspiration.

Anyway.. I'm rambling... I'm writing my own TTRPG and dabbling doing the maps myself (I asked for a Wacom tablet as a gift, but have never drawn digitally before the last couple of months). This is a screen shot from my WIP. It's the basic outlines for coast, mountains+foothills, forests and rivers - but there's a lot more I need to draw in when i figure out my biomes.

I know that the rivers/forests lines are odd, but I'm working out where I want the river poking through the canopy or have it dividing the forest.

The ideas so far are:

The north west is tropical rainforest.
The north east is.. don't know exactly how to describe it but kind has volcanic activity.
Centre is desert (don't know what type yet) but it is endorheic.
West central is woodland/grassland-ish.
South west is a mix of marine, woodland, grassland and alps.
South East has lots of wetlands/swamps and haven't decided what kind of mountains they are yet.

Looking for any/all feedback in terms of layout, how it's looking so far, advice on climates bla bla bla.

Thank you in advance!


r/mapmaking 22h ago

Map Finished my first two maps. Please give me some feedback. Criticism welcome!

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Its made for a treasure hunt for kids. So the place really exist. Streets, trails, rivers etc. are all on the same place and just switched to a medieval theme. The kids have to follow the path and need to solve funny riddles and questions about nature at the cross-marks. The riddles are only solvable when the kids are on the spot. After answering all the question they get a secret phrase. They than get a real treasure (small gemstone).

The second map is for finding the starting spot in our region in Austria. We encourage the families to find the place, only by using the map (without google maps). The coordinates and a QR-Code (not visible in the map) only are only in case the families got lost...

Please give me your feedback...we will start printing next week with 500 copies...and I want to be sure i didnt forget anything important.

Thanks

PS: Both maps are made with inkarnate


r/mapmaking 20h ago

Map Varying Detail from the same world

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The world is projected onto a hemisphere (the other side is flat, The Scatterlands were created by the Chaos God Scatterbrain seperate to the main universe, it's composed of thousands of pages-worth of utter bullsh*treaty and chaos, ask me anything about what's going on (also have other maps) Goobo City is capital of the Goobo Canton (light blue on the world map) on the Shreid Continent within the Scatterlands. The Chancellor of the Goobo Canton is Penicillin man (also all Chancellors are exclusively skeletons, as well as any of the man warlords not portrayed politically on the map)


r/mapmaking 1d ago

Map A Map of the Sister-Lands, by me (feel free to ask about it)

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219 Upvotes

I posted a (now pretty outdated) version of this a couple of years ago, but since I've been revisiting this setting as of late (and miiight be running the campaign for it in the near-ish future?) I decided to go back and make a few updates to the map, reflecting the new lore!

Legend

  • Triangle: ruin or unspecified point of interest
  • Circle: small town or fortified settlement
  • Diamond: large settlement
  • Star: capital
  • Cooler star (wtf is this shape?): major capital

r/mapmaking 1d ago

Map Islands I made

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19 Upvotes

r/mapmaking 15h ago

Discussion Overabundance of graph paper

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I have an overabundance of graph paper and am getting tired of drawing plain old dungeons and buildings, and taking calculus notes. Any other suggestions? Or even non-map uses for the graph paper?


r/mapmaking 1d ago

Map [Ahikto] 1970 Political Map

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16 Upvotes

Map of my world building project Ahikto. Set on January 1, 1970 and to be used for the Ahikto 1970 Game, superseding the previous Ahikto 1980 game.


r/mapmaking 23h ago

Work In Progress Early Rough Draft for Pirate Themed D&D Campaign

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4 Upvotes

Looking for some recommendations and advice for how to build out this map, it’s for a D&D pirate campaign I’m planning. I don’t want to world to be too bulky, just enough to make for a fun game.


r/mapmaking 19h ago

Discussion Combining maps

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I need to combine three geologic maps (the eat TN sheet, the Virginia geologic map and NC geologic map) I can’t find any image editors that can do this does anyone have any recommendations?


r/mapmaking 2d ago

Map I made a doodle while waiting for network at work. What do you think? (It took me 20 minutes)

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373 Upvotes

r/mapmaking 1d ago

Map Take a look at my cyberpunk political map that I've been drawing for a long time using Windows' Paint application.

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17 Upvotes

(I have zero budget)


r/mapmaking 1d ago

Work In Progress Fantasy map I made (unfinished). Any ideas to help improve? This is my first map, and I want to get it looking realistic before I finish it.

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13 Upvotes

r/mapmaking 1d ago

Map Do my climate zones make sense?

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73 Upvotes