Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.
Atlas Awards
Our Atlas Awards recap post is up. It lists all our winners, as well as some amazing maps showing the vote breakdown, courtesy of Ilanthar and J.Edward. If you haven’t had a look at it already, you can see it here.
Challenge News
March/April 2018 Lite Challenge : Map Guild World
Our latest Lite Challenge is ‘Map Guild World’, where we ask you to map something named after Guild member(s). Bogie writes..
“...the idea is to create any kind of map you want, but every part must be named after Guild members. Lots of ways to do this. One way is a Regional or continental map where everything is named Diamond Mountains, Kaceyville, The Great Desert of Straf, etc. Or a city map with streets and buildings and points of interest with names like Mouse Lane, Arsheesh Park, Chashio Court..... Then again one clever cartographer made a really cool fantasy building and noted where each of us lived, I loved Bogies Room but I wish they would let me out more often....”
Challenge runs till mid-April. More info here.
March 2018 Challenge : Map a Feud
There are only a few days left before March’s challenge ends, though still time to enter if you’re fast. Closing time will most likely be evening time on 31st March (Pacific timezone), though if you keep an eye on the main challenge thread, Diamond will post an update with more precise information.
In the meantime, check out the entries here.
Five Threads to check out
The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.
- SouthernCrane alerts us to an amusing Twitter thread : Fantasy Map Maker Concludes New Orleans is an "unrealistic" city
- Ramah's back mapping again. Check out the latest WIP for 'Vaniya'
- 'Fresco of Ausonia', a new WIP thread from Naima
- DanielHasenbos is working on a new map Garykia
- Dwarf City by Falconius
- BONUS : We've had a few links for free map assets posted recently. QED42 shared a bunch of links in this thread; Redrobes posted that 'Unreal and Epic release a ton of 3D assets for free'; Thorf shared some Hex Mapping Tools; and finally there is Bogie's nearly 70 pages long thread of 'Mapping Elements, Starting with Preset Tables and Chairs' (though there's a whole lot more in there now)
Five Finished Maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- Sapiento's had a busy week with three new maps posted : 'Quint's Map', 'Akait', and 'Inkonia'
- The Iron Islands by Klaradox
- New Ashta- Fantasy Town Map, by Soraya
- Falls Park Greenville SC map 2016 [2018 edit] by J.Edward
- Mavayadan by mat_r
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure...
- From Geospatialworld.net, Annotations in maps – story-telling in an interesting avatar
- From the British Library, 'Early plans in the British Isles'
- If you're a fan of poetry, check out 'Cartography for Beginners' by Emily Hasler
- From Medium.com, 'European Bus Maps : the State of the Art'. Mapping modern transit systems.
- Krita Version 4 is released. Check out the new features here. There are some new brushes too.
- A Literal Translation of Country Names (apparently!)
- If you want authentic world-building, you're probably going to be naming your streets after men.
- Some pretty maps to look at : Boston, via Leventhal Map Center. The Sulu Archipelago in the #Philippines, via LOC. The Bernhard Paul Moll collection of maps.
Taking a break next week, as I'll be away for a couple of days over Easter, so we'll be back again in two weeks time.
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