Yep, you should do it yourself, since only you can know what you want and only after having experimented a bit. The one I uploaded can help you to get started quicker and save some time.@Cookiegod, the guide is super helpful, and thanks a million for making me a copy of my area. I might take some images of my own from the website and play with what regions I'd like to include or exclude, but having all the layers already there is very nice and will get me motivated to get cracking more quickly.
That's because I created .svg-Versions of the elements needed (coastlines, mountains).You said your map is something like 5000 pixels wide. Did you just take the saved image and then scale the map to be that big? If so, are the features still good looking, or does it get weirdly pixelated?
So if you need a larger map, .svg (= scalable vector graphic) is the way to go. Everything else get's either pixelated or blurry.
If you're a noob at that like I am, then you go back to .xcf once you've scaled the image.
Be aware however that the size increases the amount of calculations needed, and it'll become progressively slower to work with.
I referenced the exact same lake when I mentioned Aswan. That's the name of the dam.found out the hard way about Lake Nasser (that wide part of the Nile) only after I'd drawn it into my first map, and then had to delete it
Finding the right rivers to draw can be tricky. I twice failed to draw the upper part of the Garonne river, where Toulouse is located, because from its course it just looks like a small sideriver.