[REL] CSL Custom Map Colors

[Rockin Robbins]

Good job CSL! As far as historical reality, RFB has the corner on that with their charts. However, there's plenty of room for dispensing with strict historical reality in favor of clear and easy to read charts made in agreement with modern chart-making methods. You are correct about the reversal in colors.

If you check out the RFB charts, you can see that they also reverse the colors. There was much less detail in the depth rendering and very little detail on land mass elevation rendering. Often the WWII guys had no real charts at all and used National Geographic insert maps. Therefore, even RFB maps are not historically accurate in many areas.

I don't know that there is any way to simulate the use of different charts of various scales and accuracies, with some areas of the Pacific not having any charts at all, as the real subs had. Certainly, there are no historically accurate coffee stains on any charts I've seen!

That being the case, there is no such thing as "historically accurate" here and you have a blank check to do as you please! I really like your charts.