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Thanks for sharing!
-Rob A>
www.helmink.com
A dealer of maps of antiquity I just discovered while using StumbleUpon. My first thought was the guild.
I hope you enjoy.
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City of Opal Island Map (Featured Map Winner...yay!): http://www.cartographersguild.com/finished-maps/5966-city-map-opal-island.html
Various maps from my Homebrew Game: http://www.cartographersguild.com/regional-world-mapping/5407-maps-my-homebrew-dnd-game.html
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CURRENT PROJECT: Map Design for an Indy Nintendo (PC-Based) Retro-Clone RPG
Thanks for sharing!
-Rob A>
My tutorials: Using GIMP to Create an Artistic Regional Map ~ All My Tutorials
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My Maps: Finished Maps ~ Challenge Entries ~ My Portfolio: www.cartocopia.com
Last April I started a site called the BIG Map Blog.
While working on another project I had occasion to spend long hours doing archival research. During this research I found literally thousands of awesome maps that I saved for personal interest/use (I am a lover of maps and a cartographer by academic training). At some point I got real jazzed on the idea of releasing them to the public.
Most map blogs (and there are several amazing ones) will display somewhat large maps, but they're never as large as I'd like; and it's very rare that they'll provide the full-res file. The Big Map Blog – being designed as a tool for the dissemination and use of these old public-domain maps – is proudly transparent in providing files at their highest resolution.
New maps are posted every weekday. You can get updates via twitter or you can just subscribe to the RSS feed if you'd like.
How long am I planning on updating? Well, I have around a thousand optimized maps ready to go, so, possibly "for forever". The queue is stacked with new content until April of 2016 at the moment.
I've been real excited to see all of the maps that the Cartographers' Guild's members have been making; while I'm not personally all that familiar with the fantasy mapping idiom, I am nonetheless a huge fan of well-made maps; and this site has introduced me to a huge number of them. Keep up the good work.
www.BigMapBlog.com
The largest curated collection of enormous maps on the web.
— All maps free to download at their highest resolution. —
Nice site BigMap, lot of inspiration to get from all the sources mentioned in the thread. Thank you all
Historical maps of Reykjavik (Iceland) 1834 - 1990. Sorry that the text is all in Icelandic, but the jpgs are clear to see on the page and the metadata is understandable.
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Gorkamorka
Historical Map Archive
This site is hosted by University of Alabama, they have quite a collection of Historical Maps there, and not just of Alabama.
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