tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752278057223582613.post6185546071938998401..comments2023-07-02T07:02:23.647-07:00Comments on Heroes of the Age: The Flats of Tsechélnu - Digitizing Tékumel, Part 17phfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500880186402356662noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752278057223582613.post-24967971313471642512018-03-03T11:58:08.541-08:002018-03-03T11:58:08.541-08:00I want this map. I want to run a Penom / Flats cam...I want this map. I want to run a Penom / Flats campaign. I love your analysis. A true cartographer are you.Brett Slocumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09240226222507995367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752278057223582613.post-21303643815298493422015-03-08T17:52:48.215-07:002015-03-08T17:52:48.215-07:00The 'moving around' is one of the things t...The 'moving around' is one of the things that's so fun about following this blog! Until I get my computer issues settled I'm not even going to pretend to think about working on P.C. maps. So, while I'd really enjoy and profit from a file with the bare bones from you, I wouldn't make it any kind of priority. It _would_ be nice, though, if down the road our different mapping projects do kind of 'line up' somehow, at least in those outlines.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752278057223582613.post-2376664798717776592015-03-07T16:53:03.250-08:002015-03-07T16:53:03.250-08:00Thanks for the comments and kind words! I've b...Thanks for the comments and kind words! I've been moving about a bit...last week I took a quick look at the Monastery of the Grey Cloak and made an attempt at locating it more accurately. I haven't done anything with Pan Chaka b/c I wanted to re-read the Butrus Gazetteer so as to make sure to incorporate that material. :-) If you want I could trace in the features and send you a file to markup and add details to that I could then, in turn, add to the map. LMK. Best Regards, Howardphfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05500880186402356662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752278057223582613.post-87201117022366077082015-02-28T16:33:37.953-08:002015-02-28T16:33:37.953-08:00I don't think the Butrus Gazetteer actually ha...I don't think the Butrus Gazetteer actually has anything to say about that northwesternmost section of the 'Flats -- it's outside the border of the Protectorate, at least going by the maps I'd had, and I purposely tried to keep my hands off anything across that line.<br /><br />FWIW, I do think that that area -- and the non-swamp areas to the east of the Turin(a) river -- are pretty flat, pretty low-lying, and very heavily watered, not only by pretty generous rainfall but by runoff from the higher ground of 'Pan Chaka proper' and the high mountains in the south.<br /><br />I like your framework for the Flats (as like, I think, all your geographical work!) -- especially zones 7 and 8, which seem so obviously 'right' that I'm a bit jealous ;) W/r/t the coastal strip, zone 3, I'd really prefer to (continue) picturing it as unbroken mangrove-analogue, on a grim and bleak scale. Much more impenetrable, much deeper in extent (both out into the water, and back onto land). And a big, deep, and nasty barrier reef farther out to sea. I like having Penom as the only harbor, and one of the only landing beaches period, in the entire region (it's got such a bad reputation, it deserves to have _some_ kind of cachet, doesn't it?). And the Sea of Grass? Oh, hell yeah :)<br /><br />After kicking it around for a day, I do have a slightly different -- or at least overlapping -- idea of how to fill in the blanks of zones 5 & 6. Basically, to have the more inland strip be actually lower-lying than the coastal strip, rather than higher-elevation: make it a depression where water (pluvial & fluvial) pools up (seasonally?). The more coastward strip is the remains of an ancient mountain/hill range, now massively and irregularly eroded into a very unpleasant maze of scrub forests atop low mesas and sheer-sided gullies filled with networks of stagnant water, peat bog-analogues, and blackwater forests; riddled with streams both aboveground and underground, connecting to the coastal strip proper. This karsty-boggy strip merges into the dense mangrove forest on the coast (which is perhaps dependent on more saline water, or something?). So, basically, trying to combine all the least welcoming aspects of the Sudd, the Yucatan, and the Everglades.<br /><br />At some point, you know, you're expected to do the swamps around Purdimal, too, so I'd be cautious about 'using up' too many wetland ideas/concepts in one place ;) <br /><br />BTW, have you already digitized/scienced up any coastline/drainage maps of Pan Chaka proper? At some point this year I'd like to set aside the time and attention to gin up a 'Southwest Frontier Map Set' and don't want to step on any toes... and especially not toes that are more competent than mine! ;)<br /><br />KAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com