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The Great Town Map Experiment; Because why not?
Topic Started: 26 Sep 2013, 08:32 AM (1,521 Views)
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Righto, poll all the things!

Which one do you, oh member, find the purdiest of them all?

The options:

1. Simply dots:

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2. Low opacity icons:

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3. High opacity icons:

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Tell all your friends and vote! Vote! Me for president etc etc




Sooooo I figured I'd try my hand at some cartography after Señor Johnapillar mentioned something about an update to the town map.. It sounded interesting enough ;p

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Now, I know it's not an exact 1:1 replica of the Godai region, but it's close enough as a first draft as far as I'm concerned.. It was a quick try-out anyways..

How big is the country supposed to be, btw?

Fun fact: I keep hearing 'Pokémon Godai' in my head as 'Pokémon Go Die!!!!' O_o
(and now you shall too mwhahaha)

Anywhoo.. Any thoughts?

Cheers!

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My trouffles are the most magical in Amsterdam~

Gajesus this is purty.
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Added the poll..

Let the battle commence!

Aaand apparently my username is thenes now.. Ohwell
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I honestly don't kow which is better. How about using two out of three for preference? The low opacity icons are hard to see but the high opacity icons make the map look cluttered and messy. The points are the most practical because they are compact, precise and clean. On the other hand, icons give people an idea of what the place is like and help them locate the place they are looking for without having to read over all the locations. For example: if I'm looking for a city, I'll know that it has a big building icon representing it, thus, making it easier to navigate the system.

Also, maybe we can compromise. In the games, they didn't just use different colors, they also used circles and squares representing cities or caves respectively. We could add other geometric figures like a triangle too -instead of big and cluttery icons. This way we keep the clean look of dots, but adapt the ease of navigation obtained from using icons.

I want to find a city in the map. If I know that cities are marked by a triangle, then I don't need to hover over all the dots just to find it; I narrow the search down to the following specifics:

General area (North, South, East, West) + Geometric Figure = Location.
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OOoooohhhHOOO I like this idea..

You pretty much hit the nail on the head as far as my own problems with the icons, and I'm gonna be ashamed for a bit that I didn't think of this elegance. :/ ELEGANCE!!!

So yeahh.. Imma try it out, though it'll be a while, since I'll be awaay being all touristy rest of the week.. And then maybe I'll try some actual RPing as well xD

(triangles as cities, though? since when are cities triangular? ;p)

Also, the idea I got from your General area (North, South, East, West, Central(?)) is that we'll want to use different colors for different 'continents', right?
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Sounds like a lovely idea~
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Just returned from a lil' holiday.. If anyone ever visits good ol Bella Roma, and goes to the Vatican, go take a look at the Vatican museum's map hall for some purdyness (just to stay a bit on topic ;p)

Anywhoo.. Quickly threw this Icon/dot compromise together:

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Ideas?
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I think i like unfilled better, but i'll be fine with whatever the masses want~
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The Awesome Gay Joltik

I'm having a tough time deciding... they both look pretty incredible. Much neater than the icons. However, what's what kind of confuses me. Like what are the white squares, the red squares, the green circles, the green triangles... I know this is very minor, but should we maybe have a legend? Even if we don't end up having a legend I think I like the unfilled ones better as well... Great job, btw.
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I was thinking of going for the unfilled ones as well, though I simply wanted to see if the filled ones would be more clear (since I did want to make them smaller than the icons so as to not make the map so cluttered, but not so inconspicuous that they simply weren't clear anymore)

I tried to be as faithful to the original map as possible, with the red stuff meaning cities/towns, and the green stuff being (natural) landmarks. I wasn't sure what to make of the bridges/victory roads (which really are neither), so I made them grey for now, though I'm probably going to change them back to the original green (landmarks) as well.

As for the 'legend': I tried to make them be as intuitive as possible: cities/towns (and the roads/bridges), being man-made, were square, whereas mountains, caves and mines were triangular (because, you know... mountains xD), and everthing else was simply a circle.
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In any case, here's the latest (last?) and highest quality jpg I could make of the unfilled icons version of el mappo.

Final alterations: made the grey icons green again (they are kinda landmarks, after all), and changed the brackbrine flats to a circle (it's not a cave, after all).

Aaand if there are no more comments or objections, I guess we can call this done?

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Now off to find myself some other hobbyhorse to tinker with >:D
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Awesome~ I like it, I think it's great, and it's now on the site. Thebes you are a lovely lovely man and I might have to ask you to do this again in the future but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
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Why is this so beautiful? i_i

You're amazing, Thebes. You've earned that hat thing on your avatar.
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Awesome~ I like it, I think it's great, and it's now on the site. Thebes you are a lovely lovely man and I might have to ask you to do this again in the future but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.


Thank you, and sure thing! B-)

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You're amazing, Thebes. You've earned that hat thing on your avatar.


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Blerrraaaugh -fire-

*throws blossoming flowers into the air*

What a joyous day!! We have a new map~


My praise and compliments go to you, fine sir. B-)
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Danke schön, danke schön

*sneezes violently as the flowers land on his head (damned hay fever)*
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