Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.
Challenge News
April/May 2018 Lite Challenge : Create a bookcover
The current Lite Challenge is scheduled to finish today (at the time of publishing), Mon 14th May, so if you haven't submitted your final entry, do so now! Voting will start soon, so keep an eye out for the poll. In the meantime, check out the current entries here.
May 2018 Challenge : Create a set of stamps
The regular challenge this month is to create a map-themed set of stamps. There are about two and a half weeks remaining on this challenge, so loads of time to enter. We've got some gorgeous stamps already, and you can check 'em out here. More info on the challenge in the intro thread.
Challenge Suggestions
If you have an idea for a challenge, post it in our Suggestions folder for the community to vote on. New challenge suggestions are always welcome.
Five threads to check out
The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.
- J.Edward has started a Patreon, and got one of his maps picked for the Atlas of Design. And speaking of Patreon, a few other Guild members discuss their experiences with Patreon.
- Any tips on PSD file recovery? Share any advice you may have.
- Eri posted a couople of updates this week: Firstly, there are several new pics in thread 'large Commision for a Monster ghetto', and also a new thread 'Manor house - Large Isometric Underground'
- Some news related to mapping software: Dungeonfog Open Beta has launched, and you can claim a free account. MapForge v1.0 offically launched a couple of months back, and lead developer Heruca posted some news/updates on the project.
- Narc's working on a new map titled 'The Realm of Nosea - Land of Dragons'
Five finished maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- Two new maps from Sapiento: 'Ascenders Saga Map', and 'Adwelin'
- 'Shipwreck Shore', by Greg
- 'The Lands of Eydra', by Jared Blando, aka TheRedEpic
- 'The Underground Railroad Cultural Heritage Center', by GreatWhiteNorth
- 'Reinassence Italy', by Naima
Guild City
Azélor has started a new Guild City map titled 'Arjille', only his THIRD Guild City map!
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.
- National Geographic have opened up their archives, making more than 6,000 maps from the magazine's 130-year-long history available.
- Also from Naational Geographic, "How an Obscure Religious Sect Mapped the Cosmos"
- If you have a collection of paper maps, you'll appreciate "How to fold a map?"
- From Ordnance Survey, blog post Mapping Music with Glynde."In many ways cartography is to a landscape, what music notation is to sound."
- From Library of Congress blog, 'Places in Civil War History: Maps of the Peninsula Campaign, Part 1'
- From CNN Travel, 'Vintage road atlases show changing face of the American road trip'
- 'The population of #Manhattan, hour-by-hour', by Randy Olson on Twitter. Neat little animated gif.
- Via Reddit, 'An Antarctic-centric world view map'
- Unusual transit map for Columbus, Ohio
Today in mapping eye candy...
- An elaborate view of Colombo in the mid-17th century, shortly after the Dutch had conquered it from the Portuguese, Sri Lanka
- A drawing of 15th century Brussels, Belgium
- Replica of Ancient Rome
- Nicolas de Fer's 1701 map of Naples
- Virgin Islands, painted by renowned cartographer and artist Heinrich Berann
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