Maps ⁽²⁰⁾

Another little map, made in Inkscape with some texture added in Gimp. Inkscape's layer blend modes are not working well for me (this is in Version 1.2). I believe there will be big improvements in V1.3 which I understand is an alpha release at the…

Castle Banallan and the Torrsea Coast - my not Halloween fantasy map Made another wee map. My original plan was - since it's October - to make a map with a vaguely Halloween theme. It didn't quite work out like that. The more I worked…

After posting the other day about the Pseudo Elizabether Place Name Generator, I thought I'd put my rather limited Python skills to work and generate some Scottish place names. A while back, I downloaded some data from the UK's goverment website. It contained a list…

A popular style of illustrating coastlines, especially on vintage-style maps, is to use horizontal lines that fade out from the coast into the sea. To clarify, this is the kind of thing I mean...

See those horizontal lines sticking out from the coast? If you fancy something like that on your map, here's how to imitate the style in Inkscape.

One of the most - or least - fun parts of map-making is coming up with place names. Some people have firm ideas about what they want in their naming conventions, occasionally going as far as creating their own languages to develop a truly unique world. I admire this greatly but it's not for me. I use place name generators.

There used to be a most wonderful web page called the 'Pseudo Elizabethan Place Name Generator'. It was hosted at inkalicious.com. Sadly the site is no more and, at the time of writing, the domain is up for sale. I was gutted when the site went down as I loved the quirky place names it offered.