A (Terraformed) Lunar Hex Atlas

Hexmaps of a fantasy terraformed version of the Moon.

Four maps are provided: North Pole, South Pole, Nearside Equator, & Farside Equator. Hexes are approximately 6 miles from center-to-center.

The maps are tinted shades of green based on four climate zones that were generated by simulating a body with Luna's size & terrain, oceans covering roughly 50% of the surface, and Earth's atmospheric composition. (In theory, this could be achieved by a hyper-advanced civilization using comets to seed the surface with water). The lunar climate is substantially rainier than anywhere on Earth, so biomes are fully speculative -- coastal areas likely resemble tropical wetlands, while elevated continental highlands might have something like (relatively) dry forests. See here for more detail.

Rivers/streams have (so far) been omitted -- the heavily cratered lunar terrain has too many discrete drainage basins to allow sizeable river networks to form, and I currently lack the tools to properly simulate lakes & endorheic basins.

The source data is included in multiband .tif format -- note that the files have custom projection metadata that may produce weird results in GIS programs.

License

The source data comes from NASA's public domain CGI Moon Kit, compiled by Ernie Wright and Noah Petro.

These map layouts are licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 -- you can share & remix them as long as you provide credit & distribute the results under a similar license.