Today have been mostly improving the depiction of rail lines and stations in the capital city, in particular platform lengths. I am working on the basis of high-speed trains needing platforms 400m in length, commuter rail 200m and metro between 100-150m. The central station (Kastjaam) has several huge double platforms over 500m long to accommodate long-distance trains, or two at a time.
Also added more street detail and the automated light railway in Osmila, which is the peninsula south of the capital (technically an island). This includes possibly the only station in the world to be located in a library, in this case the massive Bibliotekkariika (National Library and archives) in the town. It’s a pity we can’t show the actual appearance as I envisage having the platforms decorated with sculpted depictions of books and newspapers.
I have also started naming more suburbs, in the main vernacular language of Karolian (a mix of the three main Finno-Ugric languages with a little German/Danish thrown in). In other parts of the country a minority speak Románš (Romanian/Italian derived). A job for the future is to add consistent spellings and diacritical marks to places and buildings.
Discussion
Comment from Boge on 22 July 2014 at 05:18
I would love to see the library(Bibliotekkariika) and what it looks like. Maybe you can draw it.
This might be completely unrelated, but I was browsing the web about geofiction and I found out about this guy who created his own country called Alphistia. He didn’t just created the map of his own country; he made great paintings of it and he also drew the places in it. It’s called geofiction art.
Here are the links:
http://www.alphistia.com/
https://plus.google.com/photos/102917283897677605995/albums/5607008199243793697?banner=pwa
It is really amazing.