Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.
Challenge News
July/August 2018 Lite Challenge : Opposing Season
Congrats to Mimine for winning the Lite Challenge with map 'The Stones of Melenor'. Check out the WIP thread here. Mimine receives a first silver compass, the first of many, I hope!
Honourable mention to jshoer who was oh so close, losing by only one vote. Check out Joseph's map 'Rekhan's Workshop' here.
August/Sept 2018 Lite Challenge : Map a Crater
The new Lite Challenge is up and running. Bogie writes...
This month's Challenge is to create a map with a crater as the primary feature. You can map anything you want, an island with a volcanic crater, a regional map a with meteor impact crater, an RPG battlemap with a dungeon inside a volcano or a kind of city map with all the rooms / buildings built into the crater like the Weyrs in the Dragon Riders of Pern. Or go SciFi and map a moon or asteroid with lots of craters. All kinds of ways to do this, can't wait to see what you come up with.
If you have questions, head for the intro thread here.
August 2018 Challenge : The Passage of Time
It's not too late to enter August's regular challenge (we had two new entries in the last couple of days). There's a gold compass for the taking, so let's see some maps! Challenge info here.
Mapping Challenge Hall of Fame
Our 'Hall of Fame' for the regular challenge is now up to date, so if you want to re-visit previous winners - all the way back to 2007 - take a look here. We're working on the Lite Challenge Hall of Fame, so watch this space.
Cartographers' Choice
We had a new Cartographers' Choice award this week. Huge congrats to Wingshaw for map 'Ostrom'. Check it out here.
This is Wingshaw's second CC Award. He also received one for 'The City of Pyrus', so take a look at that too if you haven't seen it before.
Cartographers' Choice Award Thumbnail Gallery
Thanks to Redrobes, we now have a thumbnail gallery showing all previous Cartographers' Choice award winners! Check it out here.
Five threads to check out
The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.
- 'Secundria /work in progress', by Felscor
- 'Arvellon, capital of Eowyl Viceroyalty', by Tom
- 'The Isles of Father Hood', by Caenwyr. Huge congrats to Caenwyr from everyone at the Guild!
- 'Concepting the Bahalyr (Old-Elvish flying Ship) for TDE', by SteffenBrand
- MistyBeee updatd her 'Dark Souls' thread
Five Finished Maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- Forgotten Realms: The Ruins of Leilon, by Wired
- Thunder Rock City: Night and Day, by XCali
- Achamenid Empire Fantasy Map Commission, by MysticWings
- Eguisheim 1450, by Chlodowech
- Legend of the Five Rings RPG - Village Map, by FrancescaBaerald
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.
- Atlas Obscura have done a feature on the upcoming 'Atlas of Design' book (which will include a map by our very own J.Edward).
- Cartography Playground, 'a simple and interactive website for explaining cartographic algorithms, problems and other matters.'
- If you're into photo-realistic battlemaps, check out the sub-reddit 'IRLBattlemaps'. In their own words: "A place for tabletop RGP-style battlemaps, but FrOm ThE rEaL wOrLd"
- From the Open Data Institute, 'How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are contributing to an openly licensed map of the world'
- 'The Materiality of Maps', text of a recent academic presentation by cartographer Matthew Edney, discussing "the materiality of maps and its significance for understanding maps and mapping."
- From Live Science, "This 1491 Map May Have Influenced Christopher Columbus"
- From Harvard Magazine, "Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map Collection"
- A couple of eye candy maps from LOC: '17th century world map by Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit' and 'Summer Palace and surrounding settlements in Beijing'
- Couple more East Asian maps : China's Grand Canal, and Bird's-eye view map of Japan
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