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Maps are not only a useful way to convey information, they can also be works of art or comedy. Let's see your favorites! Here's one of my favorite funny maps, posted in the other thread, the Tory Atlas of the World, printed in a Spitting Image book.  A map of Baarle-Hertog, a Belgian enclave in The Netherlands that also has Dutch enclaves inside of it:  From Strange Maps, a great place for interesting maps, a map of the distribution of red-headed people:  From the same place, a map of what alcoholic beverages people drink. Red is wine, beige is beer, and blue is vodka.  The famous map of the London Underground by Harry Beck published in 1933. It was famous for being the first to use a linear schematic of the lines, and the London Underground has used this sort of map ever since. 
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Gastrophobia is a webcomic set in "Ancient Greece". It might not be historically accurate. 7c Nickel has a new favorite as of 21:23 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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What's up with Cameron?
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Mikl posted:What's up with Cameron? gently caress-all to do, apparently.
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Nov 28, 2013 23:36
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Justin Godscock posted:gently caress-all to do, apparently.
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Nov 29, 2013 00:29
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Maps own. I bought this a year or something ago but haven't managed to get around to getting it framed yet: http://www.kalimedia.com/Atlas_of_True_Names_World.html
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Woebin posted:Maps own. I bought this a year or something ago but haven't managed to get around to getting it framed yet: http://www.kalimedia.com/Atlas_of_True_Names_World.html I really love that map, but it bothers me that they used "Lake Superior" rather than "Upper Lake," which is what the original French name translates as.
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FYI: If you like this thread you should also check out the "Politically Motivated Maps" thread in D&D http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3531615
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I still love The Phantom Tollbooth  
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Brace yourselves, friends. Westeros, from A Song of Ice and Fire!  Middle-earth, of Tolkien fame!  Arrakis, the setting of Dune!  Athkatla, capital of Amn in the Forgotten Realms and major location in Baldur's Gate II!  Oz, home of the Great and Powerful! Couldn't find a good size on this one though.  Discworld, carried by elephants carried by a turtle! I had to include this one.  Mundus/Nirn, the... plane? (It's complicated) on which the Elder Scrolls are read!  And finally, my personal favorite map. I know most of it like the back of my hand, and the time I spent here provided me with endless hours of enjoyment and continues to do so to this day. Presenting Fallout: New Vegas's Mojave Wasteland.  This map gets bonus points by being represented in-game, in a callback to the prequel comic Chance's Folly.  That's all your fictional maps for today, folks!
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razorrozar posted:Middle-earth, of Tolkien fame! Here's the map from the Harvard Lampoon's "Bored of the Rings". 
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razorrozar posted:Middle-earth, of Tolkien fame! There's an amazing book by Karen Wynn Fonstad that has a lot of maps of Arda at many points in its history, including maps of both Bilbo's journey to the Lonely Mountain and Back Again and the Fellowship's travels in Middle Earth.  Arda in the First Age.
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razorrozar posted:
I beg to differ, I have this tattooed on the back of my right shoulder  Based on Stephen Brigg's excellent fold out map:  He also did one of Ankh Morpork: 
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I've always liked this image of Springfield.
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Any of Craig Ferguson's maps:
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At first glance, I thought this was a schematic for some kind of gun. What's it a map of? (Also, Clever Handsomeland is the best.  )
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prefect posted:At first glance, I thought this was a schematic for some kind of gun. What's it a map of? Doom E1M1.
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How about some Super Metroid? Linking to them because they're loving gigantic. Full Map Crateria Brinstar Norfair Wrecked Ship Maridia Tourian
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I like maps, ever since geography in school. What gets me about most fictitious maps is that they just throw poo poo wherever it lands and never take into account natural formations. Ireland  Kowloon  Poland 
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Gruffalo Soldier posted:I beg to differ, I have this tattooed on the back of my right shoulder Medieval Medic posted:I like maps, ever since geography in school. What gets me about most fictitious maps is that they just throw poo poo wherever it lands and never take into account natural formations. If I remember right the first draft of the map was a more traditional fantasy map, but then Terry Pratchett look at it and went something like 'What the heck is this, why are there rivers coming out of no where, have you ever even heard of rain shadow?" So they redid the map to have an actual logic to the geography, once you get past the whole flat disc on top of a space turtle thing.
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A map of physics, made in 1939. The rivers are branches of physics, and they merge over time as physical laws become more general: (click for full size) Map of an Englishman, a 2004 work by Grayson Perry:  (click for full size) To go with my earlier map of Baarle-Hertog, here is a map of Cooch Behar, an enclave complex on the border of India and Bangladesh. (Bangladesh was East Pakistan when the map was made.) The enclaves have existed since a 1713 treaty between the Mughal Empire and the Kingdom of Cooch Behar.  (click for full size)
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Fernhill posted:The famous map of the London Underground by Harry Beck published in 1933. It was famous for being the first to use a linear schematic of the lines, and the London Underground has used this sort of map ever since. I have had more contemporary versions of this map on my bedroom wall since I was five or so, replacing it every few years with the updated edition. This is the version I grew up with:  (click for big) The current one tries to put a lot more information, such as fare zones and handicap accessible stations, into one place, so it ends up a little less elegant:  (click for big) New York tried to go diagrammatic in the '70s, with the famous Vignelli map:  (click for big) I think the results are beautiful. Just take a look at the detail:  However, it wasn't popular over time. The modern map is perhaps more usable, but nowhere near as pleasing:  (click for big) Anyway, if you like transit maps, I highly recommend Transit Maps, a tumblr run by an amateur map maker.
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I thought this version of the NYC transit map looked neat, although it's admittedly a lot less useful. Makes it look like some sort of futuristic circular megacity.
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Linked for hugeness and also not getting it to work on imgur. A map of Europe from Scott Westerfield's Leviathan, a trilogy of YA World War I alternate history novels in which the Allies' genetically engineered warbeasts fight the mechanized walkers of Central Powers. I haven't read it, but the illustrations are awesome. http://www.keiththompsonart.com/pages/grandmap.html
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 Pretty accurate representation of Vancouver. Looking at this, one would think "There can't possibly be that many hipsters in East Van", but there are. Oh, there are.
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Bonk posted:
That's a lot of lesbians.
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Medieval Medic posted:Kowloon This is something I never thought I'd say about a map but - Incredible.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sQFx_e_0jc
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Supreme Allah posted:This is something I never thought I'd say about a map but - Incredible. Maps are awesome. But that map is super loving awesome.
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Another awesome map: a "bird’s-eye" map of Boston from 1899. It is an amazing work of art. (click for 9999×6446 11.6 MB image) Edit: An even more amazing example of the "bird’s-eye" maps, an 1898 map of the business district of Chicago by the Poole Bros.’s. The use of color is beautiful.  (click for 7999×5762 17.4 MB image) Brother Jonathan has a new favorite as of 07:26 on Dec 1, 2013 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIIxlgcuQRU
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I spent the better half of my high school years in this map FFXI's Vanadiel
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A map of internet usage: http://i.minus.com/iZU6w0KZYhzpF.gif (linked for 9mb gif) And how it was built Also XKCD's maps of the internet:  
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These are interesting: Europe as a Queen 
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The Onion: Our Dumb World is one of my favorites things all-time. I was a huge atlas nerd when I was a kid and have a number of giant old ones from the 1930s-60s.   
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Europe during World War I, by the awesome concept artist Kieth Thompson.
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