Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.
Challenge News
June 2018 Challenge: Map a Frontier
Voting is currently underway for June’s regular challenge, where entrants were asked to create a map showing a border or frontier of some kind. At the time of publishing, there’s a little less than 48 hours remaining before the poll closes, so head over to the voting thread to pick your favs. Remember to rep!
July's challenge will be announced around the middle of the week, so keep an eye out for that.
June/July 2018 Lite Challenge : Map a trip or journey!
Guilders are working on their maps for the Lite Challenge, and there’s still time to enter as this challenge won’t close until the 14th. Check out the current entries here.
Five Finished Maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- ‘The Reformed empire of Sarastro’, by vorropohaiah
- 'Ostwyc, the Lion City', by Caenwyr
- 'Personal Cosmographie I', by brendo
- 'The Forgotten Crypt of Heroes', by DanielHasenbos
- 'Rappan Athuk Map', by Sapiento
Five threads to check out
The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.
- 'Need help on scale and travel', discussion thread by Knighthood
- Hachuring tests, by Meton
- St. Just-in-the-Willows, by Tonquani
- Dysonia, by ThomasR
- Welcome to new member MysticWings, who shared some lovely maps in their first post.
Around the web
- How’s your geography? Blog post on creating a puzzle map using OpenLayers and Turf.js. Play the game here.
- Via Twitter, pictorial map made before 1836 shows the island of Hainan, a province of China.
- From Brainpickings, 'Creative Cartography: 7 Magnificent Books on Maps'
- From National Geographic, 'Gorgeous Panoramic Paintings of National Parks Now Online'
- From New York Public Library, 'Playland, Rye Beach'
- From CNN, 'The future of maps: Cartography in the 21st century'
- From the British Library, 'The Virtual Mappa Project and DM: Online Editions of Medieval Maps and More'
- From Glasgow University, 'Bird’s Eye View of Glasgow, 1864'
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