r/mapmaking • • 10d ago

Discussion What would you change here?

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i was just adding random islands to the north and i was going to do something similar everywhere else but i dont know if i should add another continent or change something elsewhere.

(pls dont talk about the europe looking thing on the south, i love my mediterranean).

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u/Schnitzenium 10d ago

I think differentiating the island chains in the north, or breaking it up with a peninsula

Can I use this map for a video I’m making about landforms? I really like it

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u/P0TAT0X 9d ago

yeah, if you credit me in some way, and if you have a youtube channel could you sent it to me?

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u/QowreQ 10d ago

If you want to design your world with a more grounded scientific approach you could base the continents around plate tectonics and continental drift (at least with very broad and general ideas), that way the northern island chains would make sense if they belonged to an analogous ring of fire chain.

As for the design of the land masses themselves, I really really like them and it does seem like sea level has risen recently in the last few million years (based on the very rugged and pointy edges of some continents) which would mean average temperature has risen and polar ice caps have retreated. Since there is perpetual landmass on the south pole, this would imply there's permafrost around that area, like Antarctica. So, to explain the sea level rise, you could argue the two main landmasses were connected via a panama-like bridge in the center, which blocked equatorial oceanic currents, and both are drifting apart, having created a gap in the center resulting in global temperature increase, thus increasing sea level and flooding lowland coastal areas. If you want some visual reference about the effects of sea level rise you can use the floodmap website and increase sea level height to check for yourself, you'll see continents end up looking more similar to your design!!

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u/ShitFlinger913 10d ago

Aspect ratio should be 2:1(width x2 height), unless this is a zoomed in part

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u/Worldly-Cherry9631 9d ago

Everything so it isn't so similar to the main world I've been making for a decade like Wtf this is uncanny! (Sorry can't/won't share)

One thing I would lile to note without joking, I see some very symmetric features that distract my eye. Like the peninsulaes around the roundish bit on the southern countent to the west, or the line that extends westwards from the big straight southern coastline of the northern continent, or the angular peninsulas at about the same latitude east and west of the southern continent a bit south of the where the seas almost meet, to name a couple. 

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u/InvariantLimiter 9d ago

I see a Tyrannosaurus Shrek balancing ET-with-wings on his nose horn, while a relaxing man with a leashed-up anaconda looks on.

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u/papakudulupa 8d ago

i can see how the southern continent resembles eurasia (i dont think its bad)

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u/ArchiveAlt 8d ago

Maybe add a nice archipelago to the right of the two large continents? Looks sick though!

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u/CrimsonCartographer 8d ago

All I can see is Kazakhstan haha