/banaanvraag-map

Official Banaanvraag maps

Official map for the NationStates Banaanvraag region.

Usage

To download a .png or .svg of the map, check the releases.

To edit the map, download banaanvraag.map and open the map using Azgaar's fantasy map generator.

Limitations

Subject to change

The following are canonical and complete, but may be retconned.

  • Height maps
  • Rivers

Incomplete

  • Capital city names
  • Capital city locations (unless noted otherwise)
  • Non-capital cities
  • Provinces

Non-canonical

  • Biomes
  • City statistics
  • Climate
  • Diplomacy

Guidelines

Performance

The map editing tool doesn't have great performance. The editor's wiki has an article with tips about performance. Additionally, it may help to set Options > Rendering to Best performance.

If you are done editing the map and want to share the file,

  • set Layers > Displayed layers to disable all layers except States and Labels, and
  • set Style > Style preset to Clean or to the custom NationStates preset described below.

Colour schemes

States are coloured according to Colorcet's Glasbey colourmap, which provides 256 distinct colours. You can see the list of colours here. If you add a new state, and there are now n states, use the nth colour in the set of Colorcet's Glasbey colormap.

Export

This section describes the reproducible export procedure for the official map images. As of Azgaar v1.93.11, using Firefox is preferred over Chromium because the Release export is considerably faster.

Image formats

SVG

  1. Click Export, and click .svg. Done!

Unfortunately, SVGs exported from Azgaar v1.93.04 look different when loaded with Inkscape v1.2.2. Most notably, nation labels look considerably worse.

PNG

To export the entire map as PNG:

  1. Click Export, select tiles, set Columns to 2, Rows to 2, and Scale to 1, and click Download.
  2. Extract the downloaded .zip, delete fmg_tile_schema.png, and join the images using ImageMagick command 
    montage fmg*.png -geometry +0 banaanvraag.png

Appearance

For NationStates

The NationStates style contains very little detail and simple, distinct colours.

  1. Set Options > Rendering to Best quality.
  2. Use the NationStates style preset, or recreate it as follows:
    1. Set Style > Style preset to Clean.
    2. Set Style > Labels > states > Font size to 18.
    3. Set Style > Labels > cities > Opacity to 0.
    4. Set Style > Labels > towns > Opacity to 0.
    5. (Optional) Save the style preset.
  3. Set Layers > Displayed layers to States and Labels.
  4. (Optional) Save the layers preset.
  5. Export in the desired image format(s).

For releases

The official release is supposed to look good, but may take a long time to export.

  1. Set Options > Rendering to Best quality.
  2. Use the Release style preset, or recreate it as follows:
    1. Set Style > Style preset to Pale.
    2. Set Style > Labels > states > Font to Almendra SC.
    3. Set Style > Labels > states > Font size to 18.
    4. Set Style > Labels > states > Filter to Shadow 2.
    5. Set Style > Labels > cities > Opacity to 0.
    6. Set Style > Labels > towns > Opacity to 0.
    7. (Optional) Save the style preset.
  3. Set Layers > Displayed layers to Texture, Biomes, Wind Rose, Rivers, Relief, Borders, and Labels.
  4. (Optional) Save the layers preset.
  5. Export in the desired image format(s). This may take several minutes.