I make a great many of my own overland, city and site maps but have begun using more published materials as time becomes a limited resource. Im curious, how do you fleshout and locate points of interest on say a published city map?
Consider the map of Oppara from Echoes of Glory. Its a nice map but what does one do with it if a particular Inn is to be located somewhere?
Scan or print a copy, grey scale it and ink in the location?
Use a clear overlay to locate sites?
Describe the location? (the inn is located on Bale Street in the northeastern corner of the district near the wall)
Assign a grid to the city and use it to locate sites?
I produced my map of Ridonport myself and it has something in the way of 40 locations mapped out. Oppara is the capitol. When my players move that way its going to have at least that many Im sure.
sorry but I risk one 'bump'
If you have the PDF, you can annotate the map with numbers for the various buildings and make a legend. You could print it if you wanted a hard copy.
Yeah, thats a great option if you do but if you purchase say one of the Map Folios its even hard to scan them as they are too big. Buying another PDF copy could get kind of expensive.