Challenge News
Dec 18/ Feb 19 Lite Challenge: Map a Deadly Dungeon!
Bogie decided to run a two month challenge over the festive period, with voting taking place mid-month. Our entrants made the most of the extra time, with some fantastic maps. Our congrats go to PaperGriffin for 'Tomb of the Sleeping King'. PaperGriffin wins their second silver compass in a row, and the applause of everyone at the Guild. Check out the WIP thread here.
Honourable mention to runner-up RenflowerGrapx for map 'Sandstone Mask'.
Feb/Mar 2019 Lite Challenge : Fairy Tale Map
This month's Lite Challenge asks mappers to "to create a map that depicts a place or a scene from a Fairy Tale. Lots of them to pick from. Will you choose a beloved well known one like Beauty and the Beast, or a less known Norse tale?"
There are about 11 days remaining so still time to enter if you get cracking. If you have questions, ask 'em in the intro thread, and check out our current entries in the main challenge folder here.
February 2019 challenge : Commission a Guilder
Our regular challenge is extended slightly this month, and will finish up on 17th March, so there are still a couple of weeks to work on your maps.
At the time of publishing, we have a whopping 27 maps in our thumbnail gallery! Thanks so much to everyone who has entered. It's fantastic to see so many community members working on a project together.
Check out all the entries here.
Atlas Awards
Nominations for the Atlas Awards will close in just a few hours. If you haven't nominated yet, stop whatever you're doing and head for the nomination folder NOW!
Once Diamond locks the threads, we'll take a few days to compile the poll then voting should open next weekend. Watch out for the announcement about that. Voting will last for one week. Good luck to all our nominees!
Maps of the Month
In case you missed them, here are a few highlights posted in 'Finished Maps' during February.
- Zotheray, by Diamond
- Three new maps from FrancescaBaerald this month: 'Peacefull Hill City - Legend of the Five Rings', 'Earth's Breath Monastery - Legend of the Five Rings RPG', and 'Temple of Virtuous Thunder - L5R RPG'.
- Two new maps from Larb: 'Linsella' and 'Linnack Bridge'
- Isometric Town map of Corvallen, by Mouse
- Guilder Greg is back with four new maps! 'Boltrock Isles', 'La Panache Blanc', 'Dokaro - Ulcer of the Empire', and 'The City of Arx Gravis'
- Arjille, Guild City district 6, by Azélor
- Three maps for Sagospelet Äventyr, by Clercon
- Varex, by GreatWhiteNorth
- Two new maps from J.Edward: 'Apis House and the Tower of Bombus', and 'Thylea [Odyssey of the Dragonlords]'
- Two maps from Josiah VE: 'A Slice of a Cliche Fantasy Map' and 'Hjaltland'
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.
- Deven Rue shared her thoughts on How to Hire a Cartographer (or any artist)
- Colonial Cartography
- Conserving the map of Stornoway by James Chapman, ca. 1800
- Facebook is launching a Patreon-style service. The Verge's opinion is that it's bad for creators.
- Haptic cartographies: A photo essay
- Mapping the Heart of the Grand Canyon
- The 2019 Submarine Cable Map
- From Australia's NSW State Library, Miranda's World Map. Read more about it here.
- The souvenir market for "Hysterical Maps"
- Amazon's Prime video service have bought the rights to make a new Lord of the Rings series, and they've been creating a bit of buzz on their Twitter with some maps. You can see the map in more detail here. For big LOTR fans, blogger Werthead and Tor.com have both done some analysis on what might be included in the show. Finally, Adventures in Mapping has created a 'Tattered Map Sandwich' (which you can download for free) to help recreate the look.
- This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It’s Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years
- 'Planetary maps for children'. If you've got little ones, these adorable maps might be fun for them. Here's Titan.
Some mapping eye candy...
- 'A model of Burley Griffin's Parliamentary Triangle'
- 'Lake Chelan'
- 'The Maps of Scott Reinhard' (thanks to ThomasR for the link!)
- 'An idealized reconstruction of Most (Brüx) as it appeared around 1600'
- '15th Century Paris'
That's all for this month. Our next blog post will be full of Atlas Award winners, so watch out for that later this month. Thanks for reading!
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