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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6318477" data-attributes="member: 22779">Really?&nbsp; I'm a huge map geek.&nbsp; I love maps.&nbsp; I love looking at them and antique maps are something of a hobby of mine.&nbsp; You posted two modern maps of San Francisco.&nbsp; Allow me to rebut for a moment:<img src="http://www.wall-maps.com/antique/Cities/SanFran/SanFran_HUPSANFRAN1878.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />That's a map of San Francisco circa 1878.&nbsp; Now, of the three maps of SF we have here, which one gives the best &quot;sense of place&quot;?&nbsp; For me, it's the third one.&nbsp; I look at that map and I can tell all sorts of things about SF from it.&nbsp; The modern maps are just abstract representations of the geospacial locations of various points.&nbsp; The antique map tells me a lot more about what SF looks like and what I can expect to see if I travel there.The D&amp;D map of Phandalin works like the above SF map.&nbsp; I know that the houses look a certain way - I'd expect pretty anachronistic images of 15th to 17th century homes from that map.&nbsp; The houses have stone or shingle roofs, not thatch as you would expect from an earlier home.&nbsp; The roads are dirt tracks, not cobblestone.&nbsp; The homes are fairly widely spread out, granting an airy feel to the town.Like was said, the maps give a great representation of the feel of the place.&nbsp; They aren't there solely for imparting geography.&nbsp; They are cultural maps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 6318477, member: 22779"] Really? I'm a huge map geek. I love maps. I love looking at them and antique maps are something of a hobby of mine. You posted two modern maps of San Francisco. Allow me to rebut for a moment: [img]http://www.wall-maps.com/antique/Cities/SanFran/SanFran_HUPSANFRAN1878.gif[/img] That's a map of San Francisco circa 1878. Now, of the three maps of SF we have here, which one gives the best "sense of place"? For me, it's the third one. I look at that map and I can tell all sorts of things about SF from it. The modern maps are just abstract representations of the geospacial locations of various points. The antique map tells me a lot more about what SF looks like and what I can expect to see if I travel there. The D&D map of Phandalin works like the above SF map. I know that the houses look a certain way - I'd expect pretty anachronistic images of 15th to 17th century homes from that map. The houses have stone or shingle roofs, not thatch as you would expect from an earlier home. The roads are dirt tracks, not cobblestone. The homes are fairly widely spread out, granting an airy feel to the town. Like was said, the maps give a great representation of the feel of the place. They aren't there solely for imparting geography. They are cultural maps. [/QUOTE]

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