Well, in closing for the night I'll just let you be the judge. Here's a comparison shot of a section of my map, and a section or Orania (barren areas):
http://www.techno-mage.com/~targa/compare.html
I don't think I'm going to get carried away trying to spruce it up. One of the difficulties I find myself facing is that I don't
want to leave any provinces with nothing in them other than a slight bit of shading, but I have to keep telling myself that I can't fill every province with eye candy.
