How would I draw a map of a 3 dimensional city? – July 23, 2022 at 02:51AM

I’m trying to actually get my ideas down on paper, or the digital equivalent, but for one of them I’ve run into an issue. A significant location in my universe is the Grand Nexus Academy, which is a massive city based around a school located in the Grand Nexus, Crossroads of All Worlds.

Being a city taking influence from a bunch of cultures and magically inclined, it spreads over plains, forests, hills, mountains, rivers, lakes, on and under the ocean, underground in caves, onto floating islands chained in place, occasional floating islands, and at the center of it all is a massive tree dwarfing nearby mountains that’s worthy of being the axis mundi of the whole place that basically contains a city on its own (it’s the school proper) in its boughs and trunk.

With all that said, it would basically be a world map, but I’m not sure how to draw an overall, less detailed map that would be most helpful to navigate/show the whole area.