A Map in Gàidhlig

[Redrobes]

Welcome to the guild.

One of the advantages of mapping an area which is real is that you have plenty of resources. For one you can download Open Street Map data for free. Also you can get digital elevation maps of places like the whole of Scotland so that you can shade up a map from it and it will give you the shapes and possibly the colours of the map as seen from space.

So I guess the first stage is to determine what your map of Scotland will look like. Is it black and white like a pen drawn map or a shaded one ? Are there any changes to the map from the real world - i.e. are there any elements of fantasy to it or is it a map of Scotland where the plan is to instruct people about what the names of the places are in Gaelic ? In which case this would be useful to you:

https://openmaptiles.org/languages/g.../56.835/-4.195

So tell us about the map your interesting in creating beyond the name language and we can see if we can find some extra resources for you to make a start.

Found this one too which seems very nicely done if your just after obtaining one:
https://www.weegingerdug.scot/2018/0...p-of-scotland/

[ArgentArise]

Thanks for the welcome!

I apologize, I typed up a reply yesterday but it seems my phone sent it into the abyss!

I'm very interested in Open Street Maps, but I haven't learned to use it yet. There's a lot of 'How-To's online and I haven't gotten around to reading them. I absolutely adore hand drawn maps, but my primary focus is it being educational so I do need to focus on practicality and readability over ornamentation and style. I'm fond of National Geographic's maps (although with less detail because that would be a lot of translating) and I generally think of their 'Classic' style as what a basic map "should" look like. I'm involved in the cultural revival community in Cape Breton, so my main focus is creating a map with country names, capitals, other major cities, names of oceans, etc. in order to facilitate an immersion environment for the language. I wanted it mostly for myself to put up on the wall, but since I'm fortunate enough to live in a place where the language is being taught, if everything goes really well, I'd also offer it to the local schools and institutions.

Thank you for think links you already sent my way!