October 2023 Challenge: Wudumær Cave

[HINDSIGHT]

My submission for the October mapping challange. Map a nightmare.
An overview look of a cavern with underwater lakes. The numbers refer to the hight of the cave.
I didn´t want to make it too obvious that the map was about nightmares, so I went for a cave map. From the little I know about such maps, the naming can be more subjective than other types of maps. I think the same is true for climbing maps. So using that, I named the caves, lakes and passages after normal, well known types of nightmares.
The map is handrawn, scanned, edited and colored in Photoshop.
The labeling would probably look better handlettered, but I wanted to finish the map in around one days work.
Markings and style was inspired/learned from a map made by UT Speleological Society, of Inner Spaces Caverns in Texas.

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[Greason Wolfe]

If this is for the Mapping Challenge, you will want to post it in that sub forum instead of here.

[Ifrix]

Moved it for you now

It's funny, but this is not a nightmare for me - I used to do a lot of caving (or potholing as it's called around here) a few years back.
I've also done some very simple surveying and mapping of caves and you've got the style down great!
I like the naming too, with the references to nightmares - as another little note on cave naming, in the UK whoever finds the cavern gets to name it (with a few guidelines), so it's often named after something that comes to them at that moment or some reference to something that happened on the trip (for example there's a cave in the Yorkshire Dales called Wretched Rabbit, so called because there was a particularly mangled rabbit carcass not too far from the entrance when they first discovered it)

[HINDSIGHT]

Thanks for the relocation, and the comments.
I remeber hearing about those naming traditions, and in retrospect I could have gone slightly weirder with the names, and perhaps provided a background story. The name of the cave could also, if adhering to that rule, be more poetic or obscure. I guess there is much more to explore with these kinds of maps, and im glad I took the time to learn some of the legend associated with them.

[Straf]

Moved it for you now

It's funny, but this is not a nightmare for me - I used to do a lot of caving (or potholing as it's called around here) a few years back.
I've also done some very simple surveying and mapping of caves and you've got the style down great!
I like the naming too, with the references to nightmares - as another little note on cave naming, in the UK whoever finds the cavern gets to name it (with a few guidelines), so it's often named after something that comes to them at that moment or some reference to something that happened on the trip (for example there's a cave in the Yorkshire Dales called Wretched Rabbit, so called because there was a particularly mangled rabbit carcass not too far from the entrance when they first discovered it)

I would have named it "Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch" what with an expired rabbit at a cave entrance.

[Straf]

My submission for the October mapping challange. Map a nightmare.
An overview look of a cavern with underwater lakes. The numbers refer to the hight of the cave.
I didn´t want to make it too obvious that the map was about nightmares, so I went for a cave map. From the little I know about such maps, the naming can be more subjective than other types of maps. I think the same is true for climbing maps. So using that, I named the caves, lakes and passages after normal, well known types of nightmares.
The map is handrawn, scanned, edited and colored in Photoshop.
The labeling would probably look better handlettered, but I wanted to finish the map in around one days work.
Markings and style was inspired/learned from a map made by UT Speleological Society, of Inner Spaces Caverns in Texas.

mkmkm7p.jpg

This is great and really captures the spirit of the challenge. It also accurately describes many of my dreams, or nightmares as other people might see them. I have occasional enraptures - dreams that are not nighmares

[HINDSIGHT]

Thanks I had one go at making it more academic, with sections for the different types of nightmares, but I guess terror lies in the unknows, so I went slightly more open-ended with the naming. Strike that! Just looked over the naming, its pretty blunt.

[ChickPea]

Hehe this is brilliant, and yeah, you've nailed the theme. I'll be found hanging out in the loose teeth section...

[HINDSIGHT]

Uff.. Barley hanging..

[Straf]

Hehe this is brilliant, and yeah, you've nailed the theme. I'll be found hanging out in the loose teeth section...

I haven't had a losing teeth dream for ages. Although I am losing teeth in my waking life