Some feedback about the map:
1. To ensure that the land does not look as a floating paper over a distant plane of water, and ultimately so that they do not appear as differentiated entities, I would do the following:
- Draw the border with water, as a thin dark line and maybe a thin dark hatch in the land part of the limit (keep the colored border of the country color as it is, just to clarify).
- Replace the dark thick extended hatch, for a lighter blue thin shorter hatch at the coast in the water part of the limit.
- Slightly reflect the shallow coast, basins and deeps using lighter or darker water color.
This way, water and land look both as a unit map, not either floating over the other. The original is too much "float". Likewise, it improves visibility of small islands as i.e. the Aegean ones and takes advantage of the granularity of the map.
2. Furthermore, I would do the same operation in lakes, with the addition of also drawing the colored border of the country color as is seen in the border with impassable terrain. Right now, borders with lakes do not have any accentuation color of the respective country.
3. And finally, about water provinces shapes, I would make them all straight. I beg you Johan
. I find it bad mixing curved and straight lines.
I have drawn a sketch of all this, and I leave down here the original and suggested map to compare.
And lastly, a question if it can be answered; could we get a toggle to reflect slightly drawn borders of locations? Not only provinces, that I suppose are those present right now I can see in the map. I love the granularity seen in TT#4 and would love to slightly see the locations borders when at this zoom level.
The suggested map already feels to me way more granular, and of a bigger scale, just by removing the "float" effect. And those all straight sea lines are just pleasing after seeing the mixing of curved and straight in the original map.
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