Used 2 of Jay's cool test presets: jpr_shapes_gradient and jpr_line_edges w/ high blur for this render. Added Skeleton for the roads and voila; instant topographical map.

Looks cool, Id like it with even more color noise or whatever thats called. Nice work though

Nice Lyle...does your dad like it?

thanks for sharing this lylejk, I like the way you combine and layer and texturise effects - it is almost an embroidered or folk-art artistic effect the way you applied here .. and also hides the filter's rather rough nature at the moment! : )

lylejk: this looks really good! i know you gave us the outlines and i know you're lazy, but couldn't you write a tutorial anyway, just to be a nice and responsible gimp chatter?

Just got back from Birmingham; Dad had surgery today and my brother's with him since I have to work (just started so no PTO accumulated to take the day off unfortunately). Only had 3 hours sleep so I got 2.5 more before I woke up to post here. lol

Going to try to get a few more hours shut-eye soon before the graveyard shift. Anyway, it's really as simple as I layed out AnMal. Jay's preset is pretty much at their defaults except I bumped up the blur some on the line edges and did set the result to multiply by the way.

I hope your dad is doing ok, Lyle. Sending good thoughts for a speedy recovery.

Lyle.
I hope your dad got through his surgery ok and give him my best when you see him.