A good tip for beginner-intermediate mappers: pay attention to scale as you're creating.
That wonderful town you're building actually might be only the size of a football pitch...
or perhaps the magnificent Washington DC/London hybrid you've just created is a monstrosity built for giants.
Here's Kalango's Port Victoria, and the aforementioned DC/London mash-up:
Note the scale in the lower left.
Now here's rw Washington DC, with its own "Ellipse", same scale:
I could fit the White House, DC's ellipse and most of the acreage around the Washington Monument inside Port Victoria's Ellipse.
Here's London for good measure, same scale:
The Grassy Promenade is wider than the Thames. Yeah.
I was going to shrink some of this, but maybe I'll just take all of the "royal" buildings and stuff them into the Promenade. Or something.
I mean - it's not BAD mapping per se - it's just... big.
Biggie big big.
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A Lesson in Scale
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