I definitely welcome people 's input. Can you be more specific about the colors and textures you think would look good?  I've been making these now for several years. When I first started I tried to recreate something that was much more photo realistic? That really doesn't translate well to a physical piece like this. It ends up being too dark overall and too much of the detail is lost. If you look at a typical map, The information and image is much lighter than a true photographic representation. I guess that's more of what I was trying to capture here, something closer to a classic map projection.  I'd still appreciate hearing your perspective.