Originally posted by jonnin:

I agree that sometimes mistlands and dark forest or meadow and dark forest can be hard to tell apart at times. Did you know mouse-over says the biome when you run into this issue?
Given the above, dark forest clashing with 2 biomes, I think DF needs a new color or something on the map.

But then what is the point of having colours on the map, if the colours(or trees? icons?) does not represent certain things, they are just distraction.
And having to look at the corner of the map to read the map is definitely not how map should be designed.

Originally posted by jonnin:

Most of the markers are custom? The game gives you what.. the bosses, the spawn point, and beds? Anything else? Bed is obvious, the others you need to mouse over to learn. It might be nice to label them automatically.

Basically, most people use the circle dot for everything, and then type in what they stand for, I guess house mean big base? campfire for small base? and the last one is portal? but there are a whole lot more important things in this game, for example dungeon.
For a game so focus on exploration, the map IS very lacking, in many areas.