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
Our latest Lite Challenge asked mappers to create a book cover using the land shape Bogie provided. But there was a twist. All labels and wording on the cover had to be famous bands or musicians.
Our congrats to go aeshnidae for the fantastic entry "The Lost Island of Queensryche". Aeshnidae wins her first silver compass. Check out the WIP thread here.
Honourable mention to runner-up Weery, who came second in a very close vote, with entry 'The Jam'.
May 2018 Challenge : Create a set of stamps
There's still plenty of time to enter May's regular challenge 'Create a set of stamps', and we've got a bunch of great entries already. More info in the intro thread.
May / June 2018 Lite Challenge: The Fast, Free and Crazy Challenge!
The latest Lite Challenge has started, and you have something of a free pass this month! Bogie writes...
I will be 90% offline from the 13th on in June and unable to manage the voting that would run at that time. SO, for this challenge you are FREE to map anything you want to as long as you can do it FAST! Go CRAZY and do something unexpected!
I am going to close the Challenge around Midnight between the 10th & 11th and the voting will be just 2 days, ending around midnight on the 12th.
Win a silver compass, you know you want one, it is calling your name.
I am going to close the Challenge around Midnight between the 10th & 11th and the voting will be just 2 days, ending around midnight on the 12th.
Win a silver compass, you know you want one, it is calling your name.
Map anything you want, and win a silver compass! What've you got to lose?!
If you've any questions, ask 'em in the intro thread.Five threads to check out
The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.
- Grayscale Steampunk Map Commission, by LizardInk
- Sunderland Coast, by Meshon
- Chord - Yet Another tectonics/winds/climate/etc World Map Project, by AzureWings
- Weery started a new thread describing how he develops place names for his world 'Felmyr'.
- Whipstache alerts us to a discounted offer on Campaign Cartographer
Five finished maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- Tamriel, by MistyBeee
- 'Little maps for Little Encounters 2', by J.Edward
- River crossing, by Voolf
- A Vision of Greece, by ThomasR
- Country of Lantha - Captain of Fortune, by Soraya
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.
- From arcgis.com, 'A Brief History of Fantastic Maps'. (I don't believe this is a new post, but it was re-shared on Twitter this week, so thought I'd post it in case some hadn't seen it before. The Guild gets a couple of mentions!)
- 'Underground Railways of London, 1928'. Such a contrast to London's iconic tube map.
- This one's for Mouse.
- 'Comic Book Cartography'. This site doesn't appear to have been updated in about eight years, but if you like comics and maps, have at it!
- Google has a cute doodle celebrating Abraham Ortelius.
Today in mapping eye candy...
- Copenhagen in 1860
- National Geographic Maps are posting daily map goodness on their Twitter feed, if you'd like to follow.
- The Roman town of Bilbilis, near modern Calatayud, Spain
- The Byzantine World under Justinian the Great: a map resembling the Byzantine mosaics of the era
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