Weekly Round-up - 15th January, 2018

Welcome to the weekly round-up of what's been happening at the Guild over the last seven days.




Nominations are open for the Atlas Awards. If you're new to the site, the Atlas Awards are our 'Map Oscars', where we recognise the best of the best, posted during 2017. We have eight categories, listed below, and we want you to nominate one map for each:
 

• Best World Map
• Best Regional Map
• Best City, Town, or Village Map
• Best Structure, Dungeon, or Gaming Map
• Best Space, SciFi, or Modern Map
• Best Hand-Drawn or Traditional Map
• Most Creative Map
• Best Overall Map

There's more information and some rules on how to nominate here. Check out the nomination threads here. You've got till the beginning of March to get your nominations in.





Lite Challenge - Map something from your home town
The Lite Challenge will close tonight (15th Jan), so get your final entries submitted before the deadline! See the current entries here.


Regular Challenge - Fill in the blanks
This is shaping up to be one of our most popular challenges (and thanks again to Chashio for the idea). At the time of writing, we've got eighteen entries and, with over two weeks to go, there's still time to enter. Info on the challenge is here, and view the current entries here.


A note about the 'Latest WIP' button
Please always remember to insert the 'Latest WIP' tag in your comment when you post an updated challenge map. The thumbnail scraper uses this tag to display your map in the gallery, but our Community Leaders use it too when it's time to create the voting poll. If you don't include it, people won't see your latest work, and you risk being missed from the poll completely if you never include it. It's on the toolbar in the comment box:

• Amedir, by Wingshaw
• Map of China XIIth Century - Wulin : Edition du Lotus Pourpre, by Akae
• Two maps from Jo : The Blackbone fortress and The Border at the River
• Two maps from Caenwyr from the Heimfold series : Vaysha Rift and Lestosk
• Death of the Immortal King Map, by FrancescaBaerald

And some bonus Finished Maps, just because!

• Syr by Kelleri
• Hellsing map by J.Edward
• Nowhere marshes by Sapiento
• Kronos by Harrg

The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.

• TimPaul shared a framed version of a map he created for a fantasy novel.
• ThomasR updated his 'Random sketches' thread with a custom gift wrapping paper for a friend's birthday.
• MPG shared some pics showing the development of his recently completed map Port Tarssos. You can see the finished map here.
• Aeshnidae's working on a couple of maps: Dwarven City of Kuglutuk and Brynehall
• Azelor's 'Köppen–Geiger climate classification' thread continues to be a wealth of information and discussion.

Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.

• From Geoawesomeness, 'Fascinating 3D map shows what lies beneath Greenland'
• From the Accidental Maps sub-reddit, 'Frying pans look like planets'
• Five historical maps that got it wrong
• 'The Map Man of La Jolla' Forgery in the antique mapping world.
• The National Encyclopædia Atlas, a beautiful example of a mid-Victorian atlas from 1868
• Offered without comment: Recorded incidents of drunkness per 100,000 people in England/Wales in 1899. Via @JulesGrandin on Twitter.
• Gorgeous map of ten of the world's shortest borders, via BoingBoing.

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