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From ~Arpie: "One thing I've found helpful for distances and scale is looking at Google Maps. By looking up the mileage of various landmarks (like a pair of towns you travel between often, or a forest you often hike in) you can get a much better sense of the relative size of things. And you can zoom in and out, so it's good for all kinds of maps. Or you could even look up how wide across a mountain range like the Alps are, and base a fantasy mountain range off those, and the scale will be believable." From ~alphabetsoup314: "I would also like to suggest looking for real-life maps for reference, both historical and modern. That way you can get more ideas about how to represent different features. For example, modern maps may represent small roads with a simple black line and major roads with a double line. Also, it gives ideas for the styles of different time periods. For example, I find that older maps draw triangular(ish) shapes to represent mountains, while modern maps tend to just add a bit of shaded area to suggest different topography. Also, older maps give some ideas for purely decorative parts to add. Here's some interesting ones on dA: 
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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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It helped me alot in making this one---> [link]
Eventhough it looks far from what you made
I still had no idea how to go on about it, before I found your tut
So thank you again and I love your own end-product
And thank you