User talk:Daric Gaersmith/Cartography

Hey

I must confess my interest in your project. I find a map similar to yours to be something highly interesting, and one that a lot of people could probably find a good use for. I do have one question though:

How are you going to size the map? If you're for realism, rather than using an in-game representation of distance as a gauge, Tamriel strikes me as being a lot larger. I don't want to go making up figures, but I'd imagine realistically the Imperial City, for example, would be populated by thousands, and Lore, for example, speaks of large Legions marching into war. They'd have to be housed somewhere. The games are obviously scaled down, but there is no real sources that I am aware of for a Lore-based size of each province... Or even just one province, which would give you at least something to work with to guess nearby provinces.

I have a whole load of questions and comments related to this, but I wanted to hear what you had to say while I thought some more on it. --Snowmane^{(talk•email)} 15:49, 12 January 2013 (GMT)

That is a very interesting question, and one that I have been pondering for a while. When I wrote that part about the lat/long intervals on the West Tamriel map, I was thinking they could be something as arbitrary as the distance that an adult male Ayleid can throw a rock! :)

What I am intending to do, however, is to draw the coastline first, which includes individual polygons for each region or island nation, then place a footprint of a town (like this one) at the relevant location, and scale the town internally so that a single building will have a realistic scale. From there I can estimate a realistic scale between two towns externally, which by extension will give me an overall scale for the map. That is the plan at present, anyway. If anyone can suggest a better way to do this, I'm keen to hear. – Daric↝talk 01:05, 13 January 2013 (GMT)

Solstheim and Cyrodiil

You might want to note that (AFAIK) the map of Solstheim you have is fan-made. This is the official PGE map of the island. Of course, the Bloodmoon paper map is even better again. I should also warn you that the PGE map of Lake Rumare is utter rubbish, and, if you can, you should use the game data instead. —Legoless (talk) 22:18, 24 January 2013 (GMT)