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  1. Welcome!

    The Cartographers’ Guild is a forum created by and for map makers and aficionados, a place where every aspect of cartography can be admired, examined, learned, and discussed. Our membership consists of professional designers and artists, hobbyists, and amateurs—all are welcome to join and participate in the quest for cartographic skill and knowledge.

    Although we specialize in maps of fictional realms, as commonly used in both novels and games (both tabletop and role-playing), many Guild members are also proficient in historical and contemporary maps. Likewise, we specialize in computer-assisted cartography (such as with GIMP, Adobe apps, Campaign Cartographer, Dundjinni, etc.), although many members here also have interest in maps drafted by hand.

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    Imperial Worldmap Of Arden By Schwarzkreuz

    Imperial Worldmap Of Arden By Schwarzkreuz

    A recent member to the Guild, Schwarzkreuz has come on strong with his first sharing... is an extremely large effort (figuratively and literally) weighing in at a full poster sized 90x120 cm. T...

    Diyun City Map By Schley

    Diyun City Map By Schley

    Mike Schley is an artist whose work continues to amaze me. The map of Diyun city is excellent by itself with it's beautiful colors, line work, and an incredible amount of detail, but Mike...

    Campaign Map In MS Paint By Blkstone1

    Campaign Map In MS Paint By Blkstone1

    Microsoft Windows Paint I was originally drawn to this map because of the simplicity and old world feel as well as being hand drawn. What really inspires me about this map is not just the cont...

    The Quary And Towne Of Lymeport By RobA

    The Quary And Towne Of Lymeport By RobA

    GIMP This has always been one of my favorite maps here. The hand drawn style is just superb, as is the watercolor feel. This started with a simple doodle and turned into a really cool work o...

    The Butcher, The Baker, And That Other Guy By Ascension

    The Butcher, The Baker, And That Other Guy By Ascension

    Photoshop This map started as a way to create a hand drawn map and practice using various Photoshop effects in order to speed up the end result. After a number of uploaded works in pro...

    Featured Map: The City Of Castran By Zong

    Featured Map: The City Of Castran By Zong

    Photoshop and Inkscape City maps are two things: Time consuming to make and very difficult to get right. You can't hide behind colours and textures with a city map...if it's not convincing it wi...

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    Mark Oliva

    Jörðgarð Map of the Week #50 - Green Meadows

    Thread Starter: Mark Oliva



    Our 50th Jörðgarð (TM) Map of the Week comes from our forthcoming publication "The Northwest."

    Green Meadows

    Today, 06:30 AM by Mark Oliva Go to last post
    Clercon

    Ponte Portore - Town made in CD3

    Thread Starter: Clercon

    This is a rather quick map I made in CD3 (City Designer 3 from Profantasy) of the town Ponte Portore. It is made in the April 2010 annual style Black

    Today, 05:23 AM by Clercon Go to last post
    eViLe_eAgLe

    Driftmoon, Virtual Tabletop like game?

    Thread Starter: eViLe_eAgLe

    http://www.instantkingdom.com/driftmoon/

    It reminds me of a very good virtual tabletop, wonder if it'll have a map editor with multiplayer

    Today, 04:41 AM by Jaxilon Go to last post
    Lukc

    Lidar map of forest height

    Thread Starter: Lukc

    Came across something interesting today, a map of the height of the earth's tree cover. Find the story here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0217171235.htm

    Today, 03:40 AM by Lukc Go to last post
    Robert Sandler

    Autumn

    Thread Starter: Robert Sandler

    I'm working with a couple of other people on a table top gaming project called Autumn. I've dabbled in DMing but in joining I'm mostly interested in figuring

    Today, 03:16 AM by Robert Sandler Go to last post
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    Guild now supports MathJax notation 

    Published on 02-16-2012 01:59 PM
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    Hai-Etlik made a great suggestion that we implement MathJax into the site for complicated mathematical notation to be presented with clarity. We've ...
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    E-book Maps Discussion 

    Published on 02-10-2012 05:55 PM

    töff posted a great breakdown on maps for ebooks. Take a look at this and jump to the forum to join in the discussion. ...
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    Fantasy Maps on Boing Boing today 

    Published on 02-08-2012 01:57 PM

    Boing Boing did an article on Fantasy Maps today - and our very own Torstan was lucky enough to get a mention! The article ...
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    Cartographers Guild Update 

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    Published on 02-07-2012 10:57 AM
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    I just sent an email out to most everyone. Some of you got it last night, some of you got it this morning. I wanted to take this opportunity to reach out and let everyone know that we've made some important changes to things around ...
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    Assorted tips and tricks 

    Published on 02-07-2012 09:21 AM

    There's a great thread in the forums by torstan where he's sharing great tips and tricks. Here's a preview.
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    Choice Map: Imperial Worldmap of Arden by Schwarzkreuz 

    Published on 02-06-2012 02:35 PM

    A recent member to the Guild, Schwarzkreuz has come on strong with his first sharing...The Imperial Worldmap of Arden is an extremely large effort (figuratively ...
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