Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.
Challenge News
May / June 2018 Lite Challenge: The Fast, Free and Crazy Challenge!
Our latest Lite Challenge was a bit of a free-for-all. The deadline was a little shorter than usual, so entrants could map what they wanted provided they finished by the 10th of the month.
After a nail-bitingly close vote, our congrats go to Tenia for Sketchup design "A Stairway to Heaven". Tenia wins a first silver compass.
Honourable mention to Straf who came so close with map "Realms of the Ageless".
June / July '18 Lite Challenge: Map a Trip or Journey!
The new Lite Challenge has already started. Bogie writes...This months Challenge is to create a map that shows a TRIP or JOURNEY. It could be as simple as mapping the route you took on your latest vacation, as complex as mapping out Lewis & Clark's expedition. It could be a real Exploration such as Leif Erikson's northern passage to America, or it could be a fictional one like The Journey to the Center of the Earth (this would be cool as it comes with it's own sound track Rick Wakeman: Journey to the Center of the Earth ) It could be world spanning like Magellan's voyage or very local if you map your route to work. Anyway, you are the most creative bunch of cartographer's around, Do Your Magic!
Win a silver compass, they are shiny!
Win a silver compass, they are shiny!
More details in the intro thread.
June 2018 Challenge: Map a Frontier
There's still time to enter June's challenge, with a gold compass at stake. Read the challenge details here, and check out the current entries here.
Five threads to check out
The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.
- Elterio Delgard is back working on the 'six maps project'
- Josiah VE posted an update on 'Al Qatan (WIP Commission)'
- 'The 3d globe project and the world of Vaeya', by Vigilus
- 'Untitled Town WIP', by LizardInk
- Several new updates on 'Ostwyc, the Lion City', by Caenwyr
Five finished maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- Three new maps from Abu Lafia: 'Moss-Fort', 'Island of Tamoclet', and 'Yanuma Stronghold'.
- 'City of Kingkel', by MistyBeee
- 'Emberstone', by Tainotim
- Two maps from ThomasR: 'A Sundered World, a weird map' and 'Nimona'.
- 'King's Harbour', by Voolf
- BONUS: 'Summer Palace pavilion', by J.Edward
- BONUS: 'Slumbering Ocean', by Kelleri
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.
- 1560 bird’s-eye view of Carrickfergus in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
- The UK Mapping Festival is running a competition asking people to post any unusual maps they see. You can see them via the #MapsAreEverywhere hashtag on Twitter, or scroll through a selection here.
- Fun question on Quora: What would the world be like if the land area and ocean areas of Earth were switched?
- From LOC Maps, 1931 map of China "including information on weather, borders, resources, points of interest and more!"
- Brasil's Rio Grande do Sul: Classroom Wall Map (1966)
- CNC machining a landscape by Dom Riccobene, short Twitter vid.
- 'Allegorical map of Bohemia in the symbolic form of a rose'
- 'On Airline Mapping' - creating a route map for a major airline.
- A couple of map links about New York: From codex99, 'The Streets of New York', and from the Daily Mail, 'From Wall Street in 1661 to Central Park in 1860: Maps of New York City'
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