Hi

http://www.groundtruthtrekking.org/WildCoastMap.jpg

I'm looking for a map script to generate random coast/seaside maps. I didn't found anything like this, so posting request here.

I also have some suggestions for some more switches for such map script.
Except those standard (size, climate, sea level, era, speed) of course :)
World wrap is flat so there's no need to add this switch.

shape:

plain:
http://www.qldtravel.com.au/images/maps/sunshine-coast.jpg
convex:
http://www.floridavillaspecialist.com/graphics/map2.gif
http://www.fiji.maps-pacific.com/map/Viti-Coral.gif
concave:
http://www.groundtruthtrekking.org/WildCoastMap.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Gulf_of_Guinea_%28English%29.jpg/800px-Gulf_of_Guinea_%28English%29.jpg

shoreline:
http://img.search.com/thumb/3/38/NorwegianGroundCampaign.jpg/350px-NorwegianGroundCampaign.jpg
addition inslands (but no need astronomy to go there):
small islands (with no starting positions):
http://www.bedandbreakfastsardinia.homestead.com/Smeralda1Map.GIF
large islands (with starting positions):
http://www.noianet.com/usr/main/docs/345/EastCoastMap_LRG.jpg

islands intensity:
try yourself to imagine this :P

http://www.bedandbreakfastsardinia.homestead.com/Smeralda1Map.GIF

I used to live there. . . (La Maddalena, Italy)

hehe :) kewl ;) and what you thing about my idea for this mapscript? :p

meh. Personally, I do not enjoy "edged" maps and have stopped playing on them. I do think some of your suggestions would be very welcome additions to some globe-generating scripts, though. . .

Love the idea. :cool: I'll think about it...

Cool idea!

This would be a perfect game to use "canal" cities or forts (in BtS) to connect these "fjords". Maybe not all that useful, but I always like that concept.

Nice idea, MusX!

--ilovesimgolf

Is anybody going to create one? :> python is definitely not my skills

How about generating a pangea map, divided in quadrants like

1|2
3|4

and then cropping the map to just one of those quadrants? Wouldn't that yield more or less what you requested?

I think I'll go and find out!