Gazette Notice: the cartographers have at last learned what roads are

The Town Square Gazette is pleased to report that the cartographers have completed their retraining and can now, in most cases, identify a road. Readers may remember the previous map edition, in which every connection between towns was represented by a determined line charging across the countryside with no regard for trees, mountains, rivers, or basic decency. Several forests were bisected. One lake was treated as a suggestion. At least three uninvolved towns found themselves with lines running directly through the middle of their public squares. The Guild of Cartographers insisted this was "technically correct" because the towns were connected. The rest of us insisted that if a road from Oak Hollow to Lantern Quay passes straight over a mountain, through a pond, and across somebody else's vegetable patch, it may be a connection but it is not a road. This disagreement has now been resolved through additional training. Readers seeking the full engineering account may consult When map…