“What would it look like if count de Ferraris would have made his map today?”
One mapper loaded all of Belgium’s OpenStreetMap data into Postgres and restyled it in QGIS to look like the 1777 Ferraris map. The woodland and marsh textures are screenshots of the original, cleaned up in GIMP and tiled. Free data, free tools, and one stubborn person. The result beats most paid basemaps on looks alone.