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Exploring Southern Seas - Trips 41-45

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I'm trying to balance expanding the map to include more cities with providing detail to the areas it already covers. In favor of the latter, I've recently been exploring the seas in the southern half of the map starting with the one to the Southwest of Rheinprovinz. To my pleasant surprise I found it was larger than I thought and connected up with the sea that Port del Sol is on. Then I turned my attention to Alcotown's sea and finally explored a small sea that the road to Alcotown travels along. With those additions, here is the seventh export of my map of Your Land. Click and then right click view on new tab to see the original full-size image.

More canal building, Viskasteel, Aventiure, and More

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 I took a small break from mapping as I built my second canal with a small fort/lighthouse. This one is closer to Greenborough and helps to connect it with the rest of a large sea. Once I got back to traveling, I found that the direct path from Egypt to Greenborough is entirely over land. Then I found an overland route from Odonhull to Viskasteel. From there, I explored the water ways around Viskasteel a little before finding a route from  there to Finntown. Finally, I took the airship to Aventiure and mapped a route to Alcotown and sailed again out of there. Here's the map. Click on it to enlarge and then right-click open in a new tab to see the full exported image.

Trips 30 - 35 plus canal building

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 I create my map by logging trips. On each trip I take screenshots which records the coordinates. I use the coordinates from the screenshots to draw each trip. Then I color code the segment of the trip according to the method of travel and there we have our map. The basic idea of my map making is that if I record enough trips like this on my map then I'll get a rough idea of where the landmasses and seas are on the map. Below is a map of my 30th through 35th trips. I've also built my first canal linking two large seas.   And now my Fifth exported map. As usual, click on the image and then right-click "Open Image in New Tab" to see the full image.