Western Isles - an experiment with QGIS

[ChickPea]

Thought I may as well post this since it's quiet around here...

I've recently been getting into QGIS. We had a mapping project at work a few months back. Google Maps wasn't cutting it and I had a feeling that QGIS might work (I was familiar with the software from hanging around here, but I'd never really used it). So after a crash course I figured out the work thing, but it left me interested in what I could do with QGIS and I've been dabbling off and on since then.

I put together this map over the last few days. It's not a fantasy map but it's done in a sorta fantasy style, so figured I may as well share it. It's similar to something I might make in a challenge with the text at the side. I started it in QGIS gathering OpenStreetMap data, then exported everything to SVG and did the rest in Inkscape. The yellow boat thing in the title area is the Western Isles official flag (apparently) and not my work, but I tried to make the map colours work around it. It made it a little more challenging (not really a big fan of yellow), but I suppose it's a good learning tool too, as you can't always have full control over what you want to do.

Anyway, it was a fun learning project to see what I could do in QGIS and how far I could push Inkscape before it melted...!