User:Widgeon/Big Map of Dereth

Gawa Ibn Edwas of Solclaim created a big map of Dereth with mansions, villas, cottages, dungeons, towns, lifestones and more labelled on it. This was a 6123x6123 image meant for printing 3'x3'. It looks like he also split this up into 9 and 16 pieces, for easier printing. He last updated his map on 2006-08-06. It is available at http://www.warcry.com/codex/ac/game_info/dereth_maps/.

I'm working to create an updated version of a big map of Dereth. The hard part is placing the labels so they don't overlap each other, followed simply by verifying the data to make sure it is accurate. Once I have everything updated, keeping the map up to date should be pretty easy as there generally aren't many changes each patch, and the wiki keeps track of the changes.

Current status

• Colors adjusted to be lighter, so that labels show up better
• Grid lines, labels, and outside border complete
• Shows map compass
• Shows title, version
• Shows stats of what is included in the map
• Features:
  • 80 Mansions (locations taken from wiki)
  • 113 Villa Settlements (locations taken from wiki)
  • 346 Cottage Settlements (locations taken from wiki)
  • 93 Exploration Markers (locations taken from wiki, markers in dungeons were excluded)
  • 51 Towns & Outposts
  • 209 Lifestones (locations all verified)
  • 0 Portals
  • 0 Portal Hubs
  • 0 Points of Interest

In Progress

• Position labels so they don't overlap
• Tweak the diffuse lighting a bit more
• Add portals, portal hubs, and points of interest
• Verify names, locations of dungeons, portals, portal hubs, points of interest
• Tweak map generation with actual land height values
• Add a legend for the icons. Will probably combine with the map features.
• Chop up into 9 and 16 parts for printing.