Cartographers' Guild - Weekly Round-up

Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.

Challenge News

Oct / Nov '18 Lite Challenge: Finish Mapping this Island

Only a few days remaining before the Lite Challenge ends on the 14th. Watch out for the poll later in the week.

Take a look at the current entries here.

November 2018 challenge : Map A Story

We've got some excellent entries already for November's challenge where mappers are asked to 'Map a Story', a great accompaniment to NaNoWriMo, if you're taking part.

If you'd like to join in, there's still plenty of time. Head for the intro thread for more info, and check out our 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.

If you've always wanted a t-shirt announcing that you're a cartographer, J.Edward's got just the thing!
If you're looking for an image stitching program, there are some suggestions and advice in this thread.
Kellerica invites us to 'Share your early maps!' See how much Guild members have progressed since their early mapping days.
WIP - World Map - Continent of Emane, by Korthan
Ruins of Amara, by HeatherB

Five Finished Maps

Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.

Aeliorn, by DanielHasenbos
The New World, by ThomasR
The City of Heldor, by Greg
The Town Düsterrode, by SteffenBrand
The British Isles, by UnstableGunEnthusiast

Around the web

Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.

Cartographantasies, from The Weekly Standard. Review of The Writer's Map book.
Last year, Texas A&M University held an exhibit titled 'Worlds imagined: the Maps of Imaginary Places'. They've released a video showing the highlights of the exhibition (if you've a spare half hour). Also, there's a catalog for the exhibition that's free to download containing some wonderful maps for your inspiration folder! (Catalog link at the left hand side of the page)
The dawn of cartography, short twitter thread by Federico Italiano
From The Map Room blog, 'How to Navigate the Seas of a Flat Fantasy World'
The Mighty Mississippi, short vid.
From the Alan Turing Institue, 'Mapping fictional worlds'. "Creating immersive 3D maps from literary texts to advance understanding and interpretation of literature in entirely new ways"
'Cities of the World'. Test your geographic knowledge by going on a treasure hunt.