DanteLives' Travels in Your Land

 For trips 51 through 55 I added Monsabor to the map and explored routes between it and various cities. First I sailed from Kudusriver eastward to Monsabor. Amusingly, I incorrectly entered a '9' instead of a '7' into my compass and so I grossly overshot the city to the East and had to return. Oh well, more land explored and added to my map. My next trip was northward to Tenebris by sail and overland. Then I returned to Monsabor using the airship and set sail for Puerto del Sol. I was pleased to find a long passage by sea. It included an area called Isla de Mob with large bridges connecting landmasses that were fun to sail around. Sometime in the future, I'll add labels for such interesting locations to the map. Then I took a trip from Rheinprovinz back to Monsabor. I intended to travel by land northwards of the sea I sailed between Monsabor and Puerto del Sol. However, I wasn't using my map and ended up traveling to the south of that sea. So for my final trip ...

 This set of trips had me continuing to explore the southern regions of Your Land. I started in Alcotown and traveled by land south towards Aventiure. From there I turned to the Northwest and then northerly to Viskasteel. Then I completed that loop by returning to Alcotown. Next, I added Pluton and Venezia to the map starting with a journey along the road from Aventiure to Pluton. Then I hopped over to Porto del Sol and went overland to Venezia. From Venezia I journeyed back to Aventiure. Now my eighth exported map. Click to enlarge and then right click view in a new tab to see the original image.

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.

 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.

 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.

While this is my first post of my map on my new blog it is my fourth exported version. The primary motivation for this map is personal use, but I thought it would be best to share in case others found it helpful. Navigation by sea or land is the emphasis of this map (in contrast to building). In fact its earliest versions were focused on sea travel. I had recently learned how to use the sailboat mod and wanted to keep track of where I could sail to. Soon I was discovering several cities near Haven. That lead to wanting to track other types of routes between the cities. The method of creating this map is simple. I take screen shots as I travel. Later, I use the coordinates displayed in the screen shots to mark points on a canvas in Inkscape. The color of the line indicates what method of travel I used between the points. The result is an easily created accurate map of ways to travel from point to point in Your Land. Due to the way it is constructed, some care should be taken in interpre...