Welcome to our new monthly round-up blog post. It's not quite a month since I last posted, but I'm hoping to get into the routine of posting somewhere around the end of the first week of the month(ish!) so it should be every four weeks or thereabouts from now on. Let's dive in!
Challenge News
November 2018 challenge : Map A Story
November's challenge, in honour of NaNoWriMo, invited participants to Map a Story. After a nail-bitingly close vote, our congrats go to Ifrix for map 'The Continent of Ithira'. Ifrix wins a first gold compass, and pats on the back from everyone at the Guild. Check out the WIP thread here.
Honourable mention to runner-up MistyBeee, who lost out by one vote. Check out her excellent map 'Hogsmede'.
December 2018 challenge : Remember December
December's challenge has started, and we want to see some of your personal December associations...
If I say 'December', what pops into your mind? Is it Christmas and Santa? Sparkly trees, turkey and the North Pole? Or maybe a 'Winter Wonderland' theme, with snow and ice? Or, if you're in the southern hemisphere, December might mean sunshine and tropical beaches. Perhaps there's a place you visit every year around this time? Or a favourite book you like to read, or a movie you like to watch, during the holidays? Maybe you enjoy some mammoth D & D sessions over the festive period with friends or family? Create a map inspired by something that you associate with December. It can be real or fictional, any genre, any style.
If you have questions, ask 'em in the intro thread. Let's see some maps!
Nov / Dec '18 Lite Challenge: Map the ruins of a lost city/fortress
The Lite Challenge closes on Friday 14th December so, at the time of publishing, you've only got a few days left to finish up. You can check out the current entries here. Keep an eye on that folder for when Bogie posts the poll at the end of the week.
Atlas Awards
Early next year, we'll be asking for nominations for the Atlas Awards and we'll post more on that when we're ready to kick off. In the meantime, can I remind everyone that only works that are posted in 'Finished Maps' during 2018 are eligible for nomination. So, if you've created a challenge map and didn't repost it in Finished Maps, or maybe you completed a WIP and forgot to post the final version, you've got till 31st December to get it into Finished Maps.
You can easily check back everything you’ve done this year by going to your profile page and clicking ‘Find latest started threads’ from the vertical menu near the top left. If you've missed something, go post it now!
Five Finished Maps
- Steffen Brand posted a few new pieces over the last couple of weeks: 'MOBILIS - The Powerhouse', 'River Sailing Ship (for The Dark Eye)', and 'Kosch & Nordmarken Ingame-Map'
- Sapiento posted three maps commissioned for an author here. He also posted new map 'Aberyn'.
- The Lands of Amasia, by Mimine
- The Fugitive Malcom Fraser, by The Lazy One
- The Dragon's Backbone and Surrounding Lands - novel version, by Caenwyr
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.
- From tor.com, "A Literary Love Letter to Maps: The Writer’s Map"
- Krita has a new Q & A site, if you need some help with the software
- Bonsai Skull Castle by Japanese sculptor OCOZE (this isn't mapping, but it's pretty damn cool)
- Countries of the world sorted by area
- One of those story maps thingies: "Gap, Pass, Notch, & Saddle: Parsing the surprisingly regional names for alpine passageways, or whatever you call them"
- Max Gill: Forgotten designer, architect and map-making extraordinaire
- Mapping the Gruesome Murders of Medieval London
- Pantone's colour of the year is 'Living Coral'
- Perfect mapping books for geographers (if you need to drop some hints for gifts!)
- From NatGeo, 'See the Surprising Ways Mars Has Changed in 3 Billion Years'
- The Solar System Quilt: In 1876, a Teacher Creates a Handcrafted Quilt to Use as a Teaching Aid in Her Astronomy Class
- From Atlas Obscura, The Tiny Globe That Puts the World and Heavens in Your Palm
- Typewriter Cartography
- From XKCD, 'Mercator Projection'
- San Francisco Bay Area
Watch out for next monthly round-up early January. Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays everyone! Have a Mappy New Year when it comes.
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