Tag: cartography
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In preparation for Family D&D Night (and with thanks to my earlier guide to splicing maps together!), I've finally completed an expanded "overworld" map for our game world. So far, the kids have mostly hung around on the North coast of the Central Sea, but they're picked up a hook that may take them all the way across to the other side... and beyond?
Banana for scale.
(If your GMing for kids, you probably already know this, but "feelies" go a long way. All the maps. All the scrolls. Maybe even some props. Go all in. They love it.)
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On a dining table lies a old-style map comprised of 12 sheets of A4 paper, sellotaped together. The map shows the 'Central Sea', an inlet from the 'Terminic Ocean', around which various settlements, forests, mountain ranges, and swamps can be found. An underripe banana sits in one corner of the map, weighing it down.
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Geohashing expedition 2023-03-10 51 -1
The dog needed a walk, so we explored North Leigh Common in the dark and found a hashpoint.
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Geohashing expedition 2022-12-05 51 -1
A cycle in the dark leads to a hashpoint on a bridleway and the opportunity to improve OpenStreetMap.
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Automattic International
Off the back of a colleague's throwaway comment, Dan makes cartograms showing how his coworkers' countries proportionally dominate their world map.
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Heatmapping my Movements
Leveraging a decade of past GPS data, Dan draws heatmaps of his movements around Oxfordshire.
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City Roads
City Roads, by Andrei Kashcha, is an open source project for extracting highway data from OpenStreetMap and rendering it as simplistic SVG files.
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Maps that Talk
Dan's former colleague Nick Millea shows off some artefacts that didn't make it into the Bodleian's Talking Maps exhibition.
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The family that shrank France
Another video from the Map Men, this time about the Cassini map of France and its legacy on contemporary cartography, presented in their usual hilarious style.
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A 2016 version of the 1914 Isochronic London/World travel times map
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How Much of My Graticule is Covered With Water?
How much of an advantage do inland geohashers have over island ones? Dan attempts to quantify the answer in the hackiest way he can think of.
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Maps Showing California as an Island ย The Public Domain Review
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/maps-showing-california-as-an-island/ (publicdomainreview.org) If California were a country its economy would be the fifth largest in the world (just ahead of the UK). Yet the tech boom is not the starkest way California has ever stood apart from its neighbours. That would surely be the maps depicting it as an island, entire of itself. Below we โฆ
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I found a debugging river that the mods left in by accident!
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Roadspotters
Dan learns about the way that road numbers are organised around the UK and speculates about the existence of a new kind of nerd, the "roadspotter". And then, a short Internet search later, realises that this unusually hobby actually exists...