Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.
Challenge News
August 2018 Challenge : The Passage of Time
Reminder of our latest regular challenge, running till the end of month.
Diamond writes...
Your challenge this month is to show the effects of time on something. The style, area, subject, layout, etc is up to you. You can do one map or multiple side-by-side maps. The only restriction is that you have to clearly show the element of time passing in some way. Here are some suggestions Ascension had way back when:
- You could show the various additions to a castle and how it grows (structure mapping).
- You could show how deep the dwarves have dug their caves over time (dungeon mapping).
- You could do multiple maps that shows a transition from village to city (town mapping).
- You could show the travels of some particular hero and the battles he fought (regional mapping).
- You could show the extent of the Mongol Horde over various decades (continent mapping).
- You could show the effects of terraforming a planet or the effects of global warming on ours (planet mapping).
- You could show the voyage of the Enterprise and the regions they discover (Galaxy mapping).
- You could show the various additions to a castle and how it grows (structure mapping).
- You could show how deep the dwarves have dug their caves over time (dungeon mapping).
- You could do multiple maps that shows a transition from village to city (town mapping).
- You could show the travels of some particular hero and the battles he fought (regional mapping).
- You could show the extent of the Mongol Horde over various decades (continent mapping).
- You could show the effects of terraforming a planet or the effects of global warming on ours (planet mapping).
- You could show the voyage of the Enterprise and the regions they discover (Galaxy mapping).
If you have questions, head for the intro thread. Let's get mapping!
July/August 2018 Lite Challenge : Opposing Season
At the time of publishing, there's just one day remaining before the current Lite Challenge ends, so finish up and submit your final entries. Watch out for the poll mid-week.
You can see the current entries in the main challenge folder.
Five threads to check out
The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.
- Theia revisited - Climate check (WIP), by nwisth
- The Elemental Realm of Honimris (July Challenge Map), by Ilanthar
- Lesser Angara and Isles - A Bathy-orographical map, by mbartelsm
- "I need some ideas" city building discussion thread by jesterman
- Map Request Form template, by onez Useful form template if you do commission work
Five Finished Maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- Two new maps from Tom: Boardgame map, and City of Tiosgrad
- Australia - in the style of 17th century maps, by nopkin
- The Western Surrach, by vorropohaiah
- Grindstone Island, by MistyBeee
- Three Orcs Pass, by David Fink Barrentine
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.
- Ancient Earth Globe: see what the world looked like from space in the age of the dinosaurs
- Updated "Serio-Comic Map" of Europe 2018
- Looking for some colour palette ideas? Check out 'Colour Wheels, Charts, and Tables Through History'
- Behind the scenes at London's globe-making workshop – a photo essay
- From LOC blog, 'Extremities of the Earth: The Northernmost Inhabited Point Part 2'
- History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - Submarine Cable Route Maps
- La cartographie? Une histoire de point de vue (Article is in French, but Chrome offers a reasonable translation)
- 1878 pictorial tourist map of Paris
- From Map of the Week, 'Sheep and Wheat' maps of Australia
- The Lost Art of Greyscale Cartography
- Bird's Eye View of Amsterdam - By Jan Micker, ca. 1652
- From Geoawesomeness, 'The Earth is not flat, Google Maps confirms with Globe Mode' with response from the Flat Earth Society
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