{"id":315,"date":"2020-04-09T08:14:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/?p=315"},"modified":"2020-04-09T08:14:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:14:11","slug":"best-of-arhet-week-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/2020\/04\/09\/best-of-arhet-week-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of Arhet, Week 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I missed last week, so there is no week 8. Sorry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best mapping in Arhet for this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

User Moskva,\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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Not that it’s great. But Arhet is a low-volume project, so far, so we can’t be too choosy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These “mountains” are… not really mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firstly, in a cartographic sense, there is no such thing as “mountains” – there are contour lines, and there are peaks, and there are (sometimes) areas of forest. These water-tagged areas seem to represent isolines of a certain elevation, as a kind of stand-in for the concept “mountains.” Considered as isolines, they aren’t too bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondly, it hardly needs to be pointed out that mountains are not water. So the tagging as water is an egregious case of “tagging for the render.” I suppose I shouldn’t criticize this – I’ve been known to do such things myself, e.g. my Tehingdalish in The Deadlands, where my bottomless abyss is tagged as an intermittent lake. But that is different, I feel, because in that instance I’m tagging a feature that has no real-world equivalent with something that will show on the map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music to improve mapping by: Doit Science, “\u90fd\u5e02\u8a08\u753b.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I missed last week, so there is no week 8. Sorry. The best mapping in Arhet for this week. User Moskva,\u00a0here.   Not that it’s great. But Arhet is a low-volume project, so far, so we can’t be too choosy. These “mountains” are… not really mountains. Firstly, in a cartographic sense, there is no such … Continue reading Best of Arhet, Week 9<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-arhet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}