Post and share or link to reference material online that can help other mappers with inspiration or stylization.
It's come up a couple of times that we should have a thread where we can post terms related to maps and cartography. I recently ran across a new...
From time to time, I will collect all the finds listed in this thread and abstract them in this original post for easy reference. -ravells. David...
This are useful tools to get the colours of your map to work together. I would be really interested to hear how our resident industry pros (and...
At Gretchen Peterson's site found on Cartotalk.
I'm in the south of France on hols. We went to Arles yesterday and it has a great museum on Roman antiquities. Some fantastic architectural models...
I bumped into this (WWII Sea Forts - Red Sands): http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbeama/1347930348/ I'd never have thought to find something like...
Here is a forum
A pontoon bridge made out of little boats it looks like
Ref pics below (from the museum in Arles)
Roman cargo boat model here (source: museum at Arles)
Workshops, lyceums, baths etc. (Source: museum at Arles)
For your Ben Hur maps (source: museum at Arles)
I don't know if this has been linked before or if newer mappers have any issues with making grids but, this link is a one stop shop for making grids....
So I was reading a novel and it had a good part set in Nan Madol. Here is a map from Wikipedia: Some good inspiration there... -Rob A>
Back from my trip to cultural sites and good wine! And of course I didn't forget about the guild, so I brought back some wonderful maps I encountered...
I was at the local children's bookshop shopping for my 2 year old and came across these two gems in the history section (which I bought for her when...
Honestly, I haven't really read the story yet but thought the reconstructed image was cool...and perhaps of interest to mappers. ...
Came across the maps of a cartographer by the name of Ramsey Dow at his blog titled Sickly Purple Death Ray: ...
Found this site: http://steveczajka.posterous.com/pages/gallery-50 There is also a blog with weekly tutorials on calligraphy, (hand in conjunction...
I'm going through my occasional trawl of the Cartotalk website and looking for interesting links (hence flurry of link posting from me). Check out...
This is a fascinating step by step of the design process of the Moscow underground. Found on Cartotalk Link Here
Dyson Logos, rpg blogger and fellow guild member, has been busy over the last few weeks. He took it upon himself to create a random mapping system...
I found an excellent cartography website called Decorative Maps. It has awesome info on ornaments & embellishment, compass rose designs & rhumb...
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