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[avevale_intelligencer]

I'm having problems mapping Avevale.

I know bits and bobs--it's in a bowl-shaped valley, there are three major hills around it, the Ave comes out of one and passes east to west between the other two with a tributary joining it just outside the village, and so on--but I'm really having trouble putting it all together. And I want a map. I can fudge planets, continents, even countries, but this is a village and I want to get it nailed down before I commit too many inconsistencies. It's a thing.

This is why I regret not being interested in geography at school (though, to be fair, geography at school wouldn't have helped me with this, but it might have pointed me in the right direction).

Anyway, that's all for the moment. Just a passing grump.

Comments

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the result of glaciation, in which case googling glacial landscapes or something might help, I often think geology helps best with geography...

[aunty_marion]

Seconded - for something like that, geology is much more use than geography. Geography tells you where things are on this planet/in this universe; geology tells you why they look like that, so if you know 'what it looks like', you can work backwards. So to speak. And unless you're going in for large-scale terraforming, the same forces that shaped our world will apply in other places, pretty much.