Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Kurikin 08-27-07, 04:12 PM	I'm having trouble figuring out exactly where to place major cities on the map I've been working on and I'd like some help/advice. Once I got the major ones down I'm thinking it will be easy from there to put the rest. The Dark brown is the mountain range that is increasing in height & is at a fault zone, light brown is an eroded mountain range and of course, blue is rivers. http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e383/kurikin/Gyengwor001.jpg For this I used the Köppen climate classification system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification). The dark black line is showing where the colliding plate boundary is. I'm planning on making it into a d20 globe and the thick line at the 30° line is the space between the two sheets of paper. Tropical Rainforest Savanna Semi-Arid <- Brown Mediterranean Desert Humid Subtropical Think SE USA climate Marine West Coast Northern Europe Subarctic Humid Continental Between subarctic and humid subtropical http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e383/kurikin/Gyengwor002.jpg
nimblewright93 08-27-07, 05:00 PM	Place a city in the middle of the blank area below the northern mountain range take into consideration economical stand points like ports and likely resources such as ores and crops ancient people often setteled near fertile lands around rivers and the bases of mountains it would help to show the type of land Is that africa??????? ex: Desert, Marshes This should help alot think would you rather live in a wasteland or by a river.:teach:
Kurikin 08-27-07, 08:06 PM	That blank area would happen to be smack dab in the middle of the desert. The link I gave had what each color meant on the climate map. I made separate maps so as to not clutter the geography map (I plan on drawing in wooded areas, marshes...etc.) and the climate map was my rough draft. I added in the key for what the colors mean on the climate map in my first post.
Baernwulf_of_Nor 08-27-07, 08:09 PM	Weeell...you should probably look at this continent as a part of the world and not as a separate plane. Because, if there are no other neighboring landmasses around, your not gonna really have any ports at all around here. Maybe one or two for long sea voyages, but that's it. A) I think your map could use a little more work, I can't tell where the forests/other types of terrain are. Is that large river-less patch a marsh, or the Sahara? B) Cities are usually located by a water source, so there are gonna be many many little cities along the rivers in this continent. Maybe I'd place a large city in the southwest at the end of the very large river that empties into the shallow bay. C) Honestly, to your scale that continent is like the size of Africa(and shape). Do you know how many cities/countries live in Africa? It would be impossible for me to give you thorough advice on where to plot cities when dealing with a continent that is 4000miles long. D) Separating it into countries should make it a lot easier. BoN
Kurikin 08-27-07, 08:44 PM	Heh, I never noticed that it was the shape of Africa, its also about 40° more southerly. To really get what is what you have to look at both maps, not just one or the other. The map of Fearun I have is 5800 mi X 3600 mi, its also about half water, Eberron is 5000 mi wide. My continent is about 4600 mi long and about 2400 mi at its widest. To the north about 1000 mi there is a small continent then about 1500 mi to the west there is a Eurasia sized one that goes from about 45° S to 70° N. Finally there is a C shaped continent about the size of Asia about 5000 mi to the east of the continent I'm working on. All the other continents are on the "will get to whenever" list as I don't really see the group ever leaving this one, it has enough climate variety and the closest other land mass is 1000 mi away. Thanks for the input, I'll start putting in some of the major cities and regional boundaries.
nimblewright93 08-29-07, 04:28 PM	remember economics