Weekly Round-up - 26th November, 2018

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





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

Our last Lite Challenge produced some great maps, and some hard choices when it came to voting time! We had two winners this month, so joint congrats to Eri for map 'Ruins of the Last King', and to Kellerica for 'Huly's Rest'. Honourable mention to runner up Tenia for the gorgeous 'Island of Nowhere'.


Nov / Dec '18 Lite Challenge: Map the ruins of a lost city/fortress

The new Lite Challenge is up and running, with a few maps started already. Bogie writes...

This month's Challenge was suggested by MadMappingMapped, you can see his original thread here: Link to Suggestion
Basically, map an ancient place that is in ruins. It can be real, like Machu Picchu, legendary, like Atlantis, or fictional, like Mordor. Or something that is entirely your own creation.

Head for the intro thread if you have questions, or check out the current entries here.


November 2018 challenge : Map A Story

There are just a few days remaining before November's challenge ends, so finish up those maps!

Take a look at the current entries in the main challenge folder.




We have a new Cartographers' Choice award! Congratulations to Shall Teclex for her amazing map 'Masters of Ixtehcoatl'. See the map and read more about it here.

Five Finished Maps

Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
 

• Two maps from LizardInk: 'Roman Britain' & 'RPG World Map'
• Three maps from Larb: 'Pallisades Park', 'Fuel Depot', and 'Velator Class Corvette'
• The Holy City of Soline, by Jo
• City of Lyonesse, by Sapiento
• The Lost Colonies: Tris Korinthos, by Shall Teclex

Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.
 

• Why your mental map of the world is (probably) wrong, by NatGeo
• "Made a typographic map last night, on an actual typewriter."
• ThomasR mentioned that the Atlas of Design is considering reprinting previous volumes of their map books, if they have sufficient interest. If you'd like to order reprints, there's info here.
• If you're looking for something new to read, Barnes & Noble have published a list of their "Favorite Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2018"
• Bird's eye view of Sydney
• 'Places and their names — observations from 11 million place names', from Medium
• Shadow Mapping, from Maps Mania
• Maps in Dramatic Roles, from Esri story maps
• Global Hip-Hop, interactive map
• Fake Britain: A Map Of Fictional Locations In England, Scotland And Wales
• From NY Times, Beneath Antarctica’s Ice Is a Graveyard of Dead Continents
• 400 Years of Cartography — The Holcomb Digital Map Collection
• From Atlas Obscura, '24 Amazing, Homemade Dungeons & Dragons Maps'. Includes a map by a certain Community Leader!

Note about future round-up posts: I'm struggling with time for these weekly blog posts, so I'm switching to a monthly round-up for the foreseeable future. The post will go up probably around the end of the first week of the month or thereabouts. Thanks to everyone who reads and comments!

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