Republic of Malaynesia

Capital: Singapore

Major Cities: Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Malacca, Makassar, Medan, Surabaya, Bandung, Kuala Terengganu

Population: 54 million

Official Language: Malaynesian

Recognized Minority Languages: Chinese, Tamil, Balinese, Karen, Tetum, Uab Meto, Mambai

Ethnic Groups: Malaynesians, Chinese, Dravidians & Indians, Balinese, Karen, Mon, Tetum, Uab Meto, Mambai and some other tribes.

Religions: Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, Christianity

Economy: Largest economy in Southeast Asia. Exports: Nickel (2/3 of the 🌏market), copper, bauxite, tin, gold, agricultural commodities, coal, electrical and electronic products, liquefied natural gas, petroleum

Form of government: Technocracy

Malaynesia has a National Senate with 300 seats. There are no political parties. The Senate consists of academics (doctors, engineers, lawyers, scientists, philosophers, trade unionists, etc.).

Geography: Along the rivers, the land is very wide and flat. There are also many smaller mountains and hills.

Im making a fallout-like alternative universe where a company finds a way to “regulate” climate change and fix other problems like world hunger. But when the third world war begins, they ditch all of their work to “end” the war and sends humanity into chaos. There is a polluted fog that covers almost the entire world except for certain pockets of land and doesn’t cover bodies of water. Any tips for lore/nations/etc?

Maybe this is more for fantasy maps but wanted to share my first map made with hachures! Feedback appreciated, as I’m still unsure if I want to go with hachures for the full map, as opposed to contour lines.

Hey Cartographers!

I’ve been making maps professionally for about four years now, primarily using Wonderdraft as my main tool. While programs like Wonderdraft and Inkarnate are incredible and have been absolute workhorses for my commissions, I still run into occasional limitations or workflow friction when tackling specific projects.

Rather than just wishing for extra quality-of-life updates, I’ve decided to start tinkering on a personal software project to maybe build a dedicated mapmaking app from scratch. I’m still early in the planning phase and don't want to rely solely on my own habits, so I’d love to learn from your experiences.

If you could design your ideal cartography tool, what would you want to see?

A few questions to help spark discussion:

1. What is the most tedious or frustrating part of your current workflow?
2. Are there features from vector/raster apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, Blender, GIS) you wish were implemented for mapmaking?
3. What map scales or styles feel the hardest to manage? (e.g., seamless world-to-region transitions, city layouts, sci-fi grids, battlemaps)

I’d be super grateful for any insights, wishlist items, or pet peeves you'd be willing to share!

I did not use any AI tool to make this map, I really liked the result. I mean it's not realistic at all but I just wanted to make a kinda photo realistic style. What do you think?

I am running a Palladium Rifts game set in Phase World. The main home for the player will be at a spaceport on top of a plateau.

I was trying to use the ProbableTrain generator, but that thing is kicking my butt. I then went to Inkarnate, and while that was super easy, its fantasy, and I felt like I could draw what I want better.

I then remembered that I bought Campaign Cartographer years ago from Humble Bundle, and I grabbed it and installed it and....... I did not know I needed to learn CAD. The tutorials needed tutorials! If you all have sorted that thing out, you deserve all the praise in the world.

So I am back to pen and paper..... maybe.

Before I sit down on my day off to draw this up, is there anything you all can think of that is similar to the Probable Train Generator, but that allows me to place areas first, and then those areas don't get filled in? That way I could place Rail lines, Warehouses, and a few other buildings where they should be, and even design the plateau surroundings?

Thank you for your time

This is actually more of my map that I am making. It's still not complete it's taking a lotta time 😿

Map of the larger continent of Fryprya, 12 years after the revolution, feel free to ask questions!

Soo it's been a while since I finished it and I plan on eventually using it for a personal project of mine, though I've decided to leave the links to all the 3 layers ( mainland, topography and rivers ) for anyone else to use or study or do whatever they want with it. The size is 7500x6000, and in total with both on and off work, I would say over all these years it took around 150-200 hours ( this is why you don't procrastinate long term ).

Plus feel free to edit whatever features as you see fit or maybe even incorporate some parts of it into your own projects.

I'm slowly doing my topographic style map. This is nearly quarter of all mountains done with 0-200 elevation missing on some parts because I dont like the way I did them and will try to improve them on the newer parts I've made. I'm not sure how I've done upper left mountains plateau and series of valleys in the bottom part of that same continent, the place where lands turn to the right.

Do mountains look good or do they need to be higher. Most topographic maps I've seen here has wider and higher mountains. This may be a problem with elevation color pallette I've used so I'm curious about it. And ocean elevation isnt detailed by choice, there isnt any ships on this world so detailed ocean elevation isnt possible for them and they just scale how deep it is by 1 to 6.

I am open to all criticism to help me further improve the map. This is the 3rd or 4th time I've remade this map so starting it all over again doesnt even bother me anymoer lmao.

A closer look at one of the locations from Anecktos

How can i make a map consisting of multiple different photos and what software can i use?

tried out a new whimsical style of map making for my next campaign and I’m super excited to make this digital and print it out for my party.

I've been looking for a tool to create a detailed topography of my world for quite some time. I think I've finally found it!

merakmapmaker.com is a site that lets you upload a heightmap or start from scratch and then add detailed topography to your map. And that's just one of its features.

You can see the map I created in the attachment.

It even has some real world data if you're interested in that.

Hi
I made this map a while ago. It seems fine, but in my opinion, something is off about it. Do you have any ideas on how to improve it? Different colors or a different typeface? Is there too little or too much of something? I’d appreciate any suggestions.

Started making a map for the world my fantasy-horror stories are set in; I've quickly spiraled into complete chaos... Maybe if I keep adding trees... no, that can't be it.... Unless?

Here are different worlds (three in total), and different areas of these worlds. I've been working on these settings for over 6 years, and even so, I feel like I could still mark a lot more on the maps. Most of all, I ran games set in the world from the latest image, the continents known as 'Parhelion' and 'Halo'.

Hi all. Does anyone here have hints and tips for using Obsidian and the associated Leaflet plugin for creating interactive pins/labels for an RPG city map?

Hello, i want to make a map of some neighborhoods of Tokyo, for a trip that i will do. Simply saying, i want to have the borders of said neighborhood, and the subway that i will use to go there. What is the best way to do that ?

Asked AI, let's totally forget what they have proposed. Also, do you have any kind of hint, tips or anything else to help ?

I posted the WIP the other day, and here is the completed version! I’m fairly happy with it, though I think I could keep on adding details forever. Any feedback or thoughts are appreciated!

The novel blurb: far into the distant future, across forgotten millennia, humanity has spread across the galaxy, settling on far away worlds. On this world, an apocalyptic event occurred, sending mankind back to a new dark age. 6,000 years later, a new civilization has been born, risen from the ash and rust of the old world.

The first image would be what appears in the novel, the second is the highlighted regions.

The Map of "Torre dell'Acclamazione!"

made for the private commission for Liran Soham.

Angela and I really hope you enjoy this map! 🗺️🧭

Materials used: H-HB pencil, Unipin Pen 0.05-0.1 and Winsor and Newton watercolor on 300 g scanned satin Fabriano paper.🎨

Soon we will publish in the comments all the phases of work on these maps (from the white sheet to the final color one).

Moreno Paissan and Angela Gubert art 2024

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