Looking at Bardia's screenshots I can definitely see that flag names on the minimap are much clearer now.
@Fenring: Have you managed to tweak the minimap / map text colour after that "Colour blind problem" post? If yes thanks they look somewhat sharper and more yellowish.
Also will this newly found method of baking the high res heightmap be applied to other maps in the future?
I wasnt aware of that, if something looks better is by pure chance.
Yes definitely!
As regards to crete, that is the surrounding terrain patches, they are only 8-bit resolution and a 512 size texture, but I'll look into it and see what can be done.