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This is of course based on the original No Man's Land map by Eliot R. Brown. However, I made some significant changes. The haziness and crookedness of the shapes is a result of crudely bucket filling the outlines of a crudely blown up scan of the original sketch. I decided I liked the character they added to the piece, as crookedness suits Gotham well, so I rolled with it and did not use straight line tools for any of my added sections to best emulate it.

I thought the shape of Gotham looked unnatural, and I realized the reasons behind that were shape of the islands (very square and video gamey) and the perpendicular rivers. So I extrapolated from the rivers that were there and redirected them to flow all the same way, molding the islands accordingly.

I renamed the Finger River to the Gerfin River. I simply swapped the two syllables to keep it as close to the original name as possible since its namesake is important but "finger" is a common English word and naming a river just sounds really weird.

A new main island was added in the west, with its easternmost point being Brown's Arkham Island and the westernmost point being a rotated Tricorner, originally in the south of the city. I also placed Blackgate Island nearby, with Arkham relocated a nearby island. I didn't feel comfortable having Blackgate downtown and Arkham in the middle of the city. The new island also absorbed nearby Somerset, which is now Wayne Manor's neighborhood, as I wanted it in the city, and the mountain provides a nice view of it.

While Gotham is indisputably based on New York, I didn't shy away from including a bit of my home of Montreal in the new main island, adding a mountain with a cemetary like Mount Royal, and an affluent neighborhood named for its position relative to said mountain. The whole of this new island is rather wealthy, reflecting its western position, where rich neighborhoods in the Northern Hemisphere are usually located.

As for the islands' names, Uptown, Midtown, and Downtown will not do with this fourth island, so I will simply call them North Island, East Island, South Island, and West Island, the latter funnily enough also mirroring Montreal.

Description
This is of course based on the original No Man's Land map by Eliot R. Brown. However, I made some significant changes. The haziness and crookedness of the shapes is a result of crudely bucket filling the outlines of a crudely blown up scan of the original sketch. I decided I liked the character they added to the piece, as crookedness suits Gotham well, so I rolled with it and did not use straight line tools for any of my added sections to best emulate it.

I thought the shape of Gotham looked unnatural, and I realized the reasons behind that were shape of the islands (very square and video gamey) and the perpendicular rivers. So I extrapolated from the rivers that were there and redirected them to flow all the same way, molding the islands accordingly.

I renamed the Finger River to the Gerfin River. I simply swapped the two syllables to keep it as close to the original name as possible since its namesake is important but "finger" is a common English word and naming a river just sounds really weird.

A new main island was added in the west, with its easternmost point being Brown's Arkham Island and the westernmost point being a rotated Tricorner, originally in the south of the city. I also placed Blackgate Island nearby, with Arkham relocated a nearby island. I didn't feel comfortable having Blackgate downtown and Arkham in the middle of the city. The new island also absorbed nearby Somerset, which is now Wayne Manor's neighborhood, as I wanted it in the city, and the mountain provides a nice view of it.

While Gotham is indisputably based on New York, I didn't shy away from including a bit of my home of Montreal in the new main island, adding a mountain with a cemetary like Mount Royal, and an affluent neighborhood named for its position relative to said mountain. The whole of this new island is rather wealthy, reflecting its western position, where rich neighborhoods in the Northern Hemisphere are usually located.

As for the islands' names, Uptown, Midtown, and Downtown will not do with this fourth island, so I will simply call them North Island, East Island, South Island, and West Island, the latter funnily enough also mirroring Montreal.