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    Ok, I'll wade here.

    When I am mapping, especially my old World, the World of Auren, I named things, but only in the grossest sense. In other words, I named those really, really LARGE things. To put it in perspective, when you look at a map of lets say just North America, you can expect to see the following named:

    Atlantic Ocean
    Pacific Ocean
    Rockie Mountains.
    Hudson Bay
    Gulf of Mexico
    Lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie & Ontario,
    etc.

    (See this map here: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ameri...rica_ref02.jpg)

    In otherwords, only the really 'noticable things'. See the map Auren-SW-1 to get an idea. So, I have named the really large noticable things, and a major city or two per nation.

    Yet, when I was making plans to go in further at the moment, most of these maps are pen-paper), I was naming areas like straights, creeks, hills, individual mountains of importance, towns, villages, thorps, woods, forests, plains, fens, etc.

    As for naming, well, that is a whole other topic
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