Tom Patterson

Today's project: Write fun questions for this upcoming event. Do you know your mountains? These are the questions (and answers) from the 2024 contest: shadedrelief.com/trivia2024/

@Jergote Thank you. The next map update will have most of what you recommended.

Version 1.0 of my latest map with over 3,400 place names. Please take a look. I will update it based on your feedback. Thanks! shadedrelief.com/europe/

@shiMusa2 Thank you. Because the river flows through several countries that have different spellings for it, I thought it best to use the English exonym: Rhine. Same thing for the Danube.

@MtnMapper There is Basel, right at the 3 nations border and in German, the river is called "Rhein". Great map!

@AleksYankov Thanks!

@MtnMapper Beautiful work. A few names seem to be translated into English where perhaps they shouldn't be. 1) St. Petersburg -> Sankt-Peterburg 2) Lake Region -> Järvi-Suomi Also Gulf of Finland looks weird translated, but I think it is the correct choice.

@lcchabana Good catch. Thank you!

@MtnMapper The river name here is incorrect. It should be Záncara. I'm also unsure about the location. You should place the name a little further upstream. You can see it at this link: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A1nc…

@starugby85 Merci! I found "Hauteur de la Gatine" in the Times Comprehensive World Atlas. Will check other sources to verify it.

@MtnMapper I’m not shure to « hauteur de la gatine » in France. The Gatine is a little local region and the montaine massif is the armorican. You can notice the specificity of the « Pays Poitevin » maybe 😁 (sorry for my english) 😅

@petershegn Thank you. I will fix that.

@MtnMapper Looks good - only suggestion is the river in Jutland, Denmark is called Storå in danish usually

@tedmirra Thank you!

@MtnMapper This is incredible! Left some feedback on the localised names.

@dmnkzwrc The collection of lakes is now labelled as "Mamry"

@MtnMapper This looks very neat but it lists a wrong name for the Polish lake Dargin - Dargejmy.

@Raymond_deMaria Got it. Thanks!

@MtnMapper Hej mate, Wzgórze na Katarynkach - never heard of that. Wieżyca is the highest peak in Polish Pomerania.

@mcksp_ @youwillmakemaps Thank you!

@MtnMapper @youwillmakemaps świdna zatoka - idk, such thing doesn’t exist imo jezioro dargejmy - i guess that you mean Dargin, but i.e. Mamry is much bigger and much better known.

@wagarrwal Adobe Illustrator + Avenza MAPublisher, Adobe Photoshop + Avenza Geographic Imager, QGIS, Eduard, and Natural Scene Designer Pro.

@MtnMapper What tool did you use to make this?

@cthecache Thank you. The updated map will have the shorter of the two corrected names that you proposed. :)

@MtnMapper There's a typo under Vatnajökull in Iceland, 'Hvannadalshnúkur' -- missing an 'ú' but you can also pick between two spellings, 'Hvannadalshnúkur' or 'Hvannadalshnjúkur'

@bashibazouk0 Thanks very much! The updated map with all of your changes is now online.

@MtnMapper Great work! Here are some orthographic errors that caught my eye: BALIKESIR -> BALIKESİR İZMIR -> İZMİR DIYARBAKIR -> DİYARBAKIR Izmir Korfezi -> İzmir Körfezi Gulluk Korfezi -> Güllük Körfezi Gokova Korfezi -> Gökova Körfezi Fethiye Korfezi -> Fethiye Körfezi

@433Jasper Oops. Thanks for catching my error!

@MtnMapper Great map. Small hint: “Großer Feldberg“ is close to Frankfurt (in the west) in the taunus and not that far west.

@sansolovyov Fixed :)

@MtnMapper PrychornomOrska Nyzovyna (missing 'o'), liman should be lyman. That's all I saw, everything else is good. :)

@CaucasusMercury I added it. Thank you.

@MtnMapper Here’s a missing waterway. You miss the Volga-Baltic waterway/canal.It connects Vytegra river with Ozero Beloye in Russia. It’s a really important artery. Great work!

@avtansa As space allowed, I arbitrarily included a sprinkling of cities for reference. In a densely populated continent like Europe, adding every significant city would crowd out the physical features, the main point of the map.

@MtnMapper I wonder what the criteria are for the inclusion of a city. By population size, Rotterdam, Antwerp, and The Hague deserve to be on the map, as they are among the top 20 most populated cities in Western Europe..

@erdalgumus08 Great, thanks.

@MtnMapper Tom, I will suggest some minor changes for the Turkish labels

@sansolovyov I corrected the map based on your suggestions. Thank you!

@MtnMapper Ukrainian labels are transliterated inconsistently, like hora/gora (should be Hoverla rather than Goverla), plus Zolota Lypa, Ikva has no need in apostophe, Prypyat' doesn't have an 's' in the name... Good job tho!