Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.
Challenge News
Sept/October 2018 Lite Challenge : Map a location from a Harry Potter Movie
Voting has just started for Sept/Oct's Lite Challenge. Check out the entries and vote for your favs here.
October 2018 challenge : Photography-Cartography
October's challenge, running till the end of the month, is based around a series of photographs (see them here). Pick one or more, and create a map inspired by it. Challenge closes at the end of the month, so there's still plenty of time to enter. More info 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.
- Noodler's - is it worth it? Question/discussion from MapMappingMapped
- Germania AD 125 (hand drawn), by Qmoh
- Outlander Map of Scotland, by aeshnidae
- 'Another new town - a different approach', by Chlodowech
- WIP: village map (commission), by Wingshaw
Five Finished Maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- Two new maps from Francesca Baerald: 'Hope & Glory RPG Map' and 'Map of Chiaralanda'
- Little maps for Little Encounters 3, by J.Edward
- Bainbridge, by Samsstego
- Lys - Map of Mémoria, by Narc
- Tashev (the Mountain Village), by Texas Jake
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.
- From The Guardian, 'Made up places and costly mistakes: a history of unfortunate maps – in pictures'. And here's a great twitter thread from PanzerLion inspired by this article. HT to Osiris Brackhaus for the twitter link.
- From National Geographic, A 500-year-old map used by Columbus reveals its secrets
- From NY Times, A Map of Every Building in America
- The British Library's putting out a new atlas of world maps. Here's a review with some nice pics included.
- Two stories from the BBC, 'German satellites sense Earth's lumps and bumps' and 'The peculiar history of the Ordnance Survey'
- Two articles from Atlas Obscura: 'The Fantasy Maps That Put the World's Tallest Mountains Side by Side' and 'In Spanish America, Cartographers Hand-Drew Maps Inspired by Printed Ones'
- If you've time to kill, check out Youtube vid 'Fantasy Map in 1 hour using ArtRage'
- From Twitter, a not entirely serious map of every city in Europe. And here's every city in the US for comparison.
- Interview with professional cartographer Kenneth Field - “I tried to get ‘Professional cartonerd’ on my business card at work. It was rejected outright.”
- Pictorial map of Northern Ireland
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