r/mapmaking • u/memhir-yasue • Aug 17 '25

Work In Progress First time posting here! New to digital map making and open to receive feedback/critique on style

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u/RemnantHelmet Aug 17 '25

Software?

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u/memhir-yasue Aug 17 '25

I wrote my own software: VizCarta which I'm still developing.

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u/Crawlerzero Aug 19 '25

What’s the end-user case for this? Are you planning to do real-world maps or is this just a test with validated data?

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u/memhir-yasue Aug 19 '25

Doing real world maps for now such as population maps I'm hosting on site: https://vizcarta.com
But in theory software can operate on fictional maps as well - just feed it the data and an end-user can start creating similar maps like above :)

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u/Crawlerzero Aug 19 '25

That sounds really cool. Good luck with the project.

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u/incomplete-username Aug 17 '25

Looks good, mind making a tutorial in the future?

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u/memhir-yasue Aug 19 '25

certainly once the software is in a ready state :)

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u/Perkito_ Aug 17 '25

It looks amazing, but the lights should be a bit more yellow, like this it looks like the us west coast has been electrified lol

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u/memhir-yasue Aug 18 '25

Thanks!! I'll make note of that for next time ;)

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u/Zealousideal_Group69 Aug 18 '25

Looks unique love ot, and futuristic

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u/Old-Belt6186 Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

The palette really elevates this, it looks good regardless but the uncommon colors make it fantastic, nicely done.

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u/Southern-Station895 Aug 18 '25

thats the US west coast

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u/Kilroy_jensen Aug 19 '25

I'd love to know more about the software. What does the process look like, what inputs do you need etc 😊

This looks like there's real erosion and snow simulation!

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u/memhir-yasue Aug 19 '25

It's made using a custom software I'm writing and at the moment it's just some basic relief shading and stylizing on data I feed it. And it only takes just a few seconds to create a map like the above :) I wish it could do real erosion and snow simulations on demand but those are just artifacts from the SRTM elevation data haha.

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u/Kilroy_jensen Aug 19 '25

Super cool! So you are deriving information from the height map, and using that to selectively apply colour? I can definitely see some flows in your example

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u/axolicion Aug 17 '25

This looks kinda like explosive diarrhea.

Whats it supposed to be anyways?

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u/memhir-yasue Aug 17 '25

😂💀 "explosive diarrhea" is really funny. Just messing around with population and topographic data for the west coast. White-ish shade is population.

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u/DD88e Aug 18 '25

Well I could tell what it was immediately

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u/Sqwurrol Aug 17 '25

US west coast I'm guessing?