Opinions?
I'd like to give everyone and anyone the opportunity to offer input into this little cartography project! Any thoughts are welcome, but please don't get overexcited and start making massive demands, I can only do so much!
Pictured below is a preliminary map. Yet to be added is a grid reference system, compass, scale bar and key. At the moment:
RED = Interstate/Motorway type thing.
ORANGE = Other large/major roads.
BLACKISH BLUE = River, Lakes and Dam resevoir (there is a dam, top right corner!)
BLUE = Railway Line.
DECEPTICON SYMBOL = Suggested/Potential base at the open-cast mine/quarry.
AUTOBOT SYMBOL = Suggested/Potential base at disused airfield in Tranquility.
I'm aware that an awful lot of the topography makes no sense whatsoever. Why is the Airfield abandoned, when there are no others anywhere near the two large cities? WTF is going on with the local geology!? You can see joins where I've patched this together, but making a ficticious landscape using only real swatches of Nevada (courtesy of Google Earth!) is harder than I'd first thought...
^^ Tranquility. You can see the buildings by the Airbase (just) that could function as Autobot base, and I plonked a nice big cliff/bluff in so that we can have the lookout.
^^ Close up of the quarry, just because. Ignore the nastyness of some of the road lines, I'll be redoing those ones. Would you like some bigger buildings? Where?
^^ A close up of Mission City, just because.
Anyway, some suggestions of things you can nitpick over...
Are you happy with the road colours? I know what the standard road colours are on British maps, but I haven't the foggiest about US standards.
Tone down the background (even though I'll loose my pretty topography *sob*) so that the roads show up better.
Uhh... Mind's gone blank. I'm sure you'll think of things. Enjoy.