As a civil engineering tech and land surveyor, I have to say your contour interpretation and hydrology are spot on. My one critique would be that Exo, Endo, and A- are all prefixes, so it should be En-do-REE-ick.

@madelinejameswrites

6 ай бұрын

Oh I'm so glad! And I really struggled with those, I even listened to pronunciation online a few times before filming and I still messed it up! But thank you, that will help me remember these in the future (I desperately hope haha)

I'm so stoked for the first civilizations to develop along those rivers!! Really helpful stuff, as always, thanks Madeline!!

@madelinejameswrites

6 ай бұрын

Me too! I have so many notes and plans and I'm so excited!!! 😊

You've inspired me to look at my existing world map in greater detail. I see that being a project for the new year. I'll definitely be re-evaluating my climates zones for seasonal variation and more realistic weather patterns.

@madelinejameswrites

6 ай бұрын

Im honored to have been an influence 😊

Good one, very interesting. Capes should be considered extensions of mountain/hill ranges for the most part, and are usually part of the divide between watersheds: A point to start drawing a divide up to the nearest Mountain Range. This is more accurate as we zoom in into regional and local maps. Large scale "capes" on a global level may be part of a rifting system like cape Saint Roch in Brazil or sediment filled continental shelfs like the Florida Platform.

@madelinejameswrites

6 ай бұрын

I could have considered them at this level then! Capes will definitely have to be a part of regional mapping. Thank you!

@iagocasabiellgonzalez7807

6 ай бұрын

@@madelinejameswrites Thanks for your videos, they are very inspiring. I love cartography, and after some years playing around with maps, I learned to appreciate hydrography a lot, as it gives you a very accurate picture of the land in 3D at a glance, with very precise borders. The prevalent contour maps are more complete, but not so good at conveying the great picture of the land to everyone, and are also very work heavy. Take Cristopher Tolkien's big Middle Earth map: with the mountain ranges, capes and rivers you can easily see the different "countries" and "regions", and it is closer to the ancient knowledge of the land that a people would feel as their own, where they would farm, hunt on and roam through. A dominion would be defined by all the lands you could see from the castle/keep, which ended at natural borders like mountain ranges, rivers and the sea. So hydrographical maps with coastline, rivers and watershed divides are very informative for worldbuilding, as you can deduce at a glance all theese cultural and territorial aspects.

I'm always impressed by the amount of research you do and share with us. Thanks!

@madelinejameswrites

6 ай бұрын

I'm glad I'm not the only one who enjoys getting into all this! 😊

Although I am most excited to see where & why the civilisations pop up, I just had the idea that exploring land & sea trade routes & obstacles that impact them such as areas with frequent rogue waves interupting sea trade routes would be interesting

@madelinejameswrites

6 ай бұрын

That's a really fun idea. You definitely get trade limitations around the horse latitudes, and ice around the poles can seasonally block routes, but I bet there's other things that make it tricky like you said!

I do appreciate the amount of effort put into this! Looks like I got the wetlands not right on my regional map! It is too late for that, as adding the civilisation (year 2024 of our system) has been added. I would love to collaborate with someone in a fun project like that. I would love for someone to use my maps for their own stories.

Awesome work! My one comment doesn't have much to do with this topic itself, and is only that I think you can have more rainforest on the equator area of your Eastern continent. That in turn would bring more recycled moisture in the air and would allow for more major rivers in that area

@madelinejameswrites

6 ай бұрын

I think you're right. I'm going to try to bump that up at the biome level at least!

Again a very good an inspirational video! I really should start with adding this details to my worldmap! The only thing I'm still pondering is the question of whether the rivers or the mountains came first. They influence each other as they "grow". A closed valley can only form if it is in an extremely dry region, otherwise a constant water drain should ensure that there is always a valley to the outside... 🤔

@madelinejameswrites

6 ай бұрын

The paths of rivers change pretty frequently over time, and the mountains themselves are eroding or growing with plate tectonics too! It's a constant process that has been going on since there was running water on the planet!

Invaluable. Honestly please keep making videos

@madelinejameswrites

6 ай бұрын

I hope to! I really appreciate the support 😊 thank you

Thanks for the video! Nothing to add on this one, but definitely enjoying and being informed still.

I would read them as exo-ray-ic and endo-ray-ic personally

The waters will only cut their way out of enclosed basin when the water level reaches the height of the lowest point of the 'enclosure'. This means that the lake you drew could, given enough time and enough water, fill that whole basin. This may happen seasonally as glacial deposition and runoff vary through the seasons and over the eons. Every time the lake overflows the basin, it will begin to carve out a channel out. The channel will deepen with every overflow, requiring a lower water level to overflow and meaning less of the basin will be underwater during overflows over time.

@madelinejameswrites

4 ай бұрын

Oh yes, which is a fun thing to think about when it comes to societies living there

@Ratchet4647

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the heart and the reply! I wasn't expecting either! I agree that it'd be very interesting for societies living within the basin, with the amount of available land for living and crops varying with the variation in the water within the basin, settlements built along the water eventually being lost to flooding. The society living at the lowest point of the enclosure would have potentially catastrophic experiences whenever it overflows, particularly if glacial accumulation temporarily blocks the overflow like a dam, making the eventual overflow particularly violent! This happened in the last Ice Age in the North American Northwest multiple times, which drastically affected the region beyond the overflow.

I belive the H is silent in Rheic, like with the Greek letter Rho. At least in General American English