Good work!
I did a search and I think noone has linked this website yet. When I found it I got the feeling I hit the motherlode. This website has at least dozens of ancient city maps from all over the world. Looks like hundreds though:
http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il
Some examples:
http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/br...rg_III_2_b.jpg
http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/ge...50_trier_b.jpg
http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/ge...hannover_b.jpg
http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/sw..._II_36_4_b.jpg
This is giving me lots of inspiration!
Last edited by Gandwarf; 01-17-2009 at 05:33 PM.
Check out my City Designer 3 tutorials. See my fantasy (city) maps in this thread.
Gandwarf has fallen into shadow...
Good work!
Daniel the Neon Knight: Campaign Cartographer User
Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice!
Any questions on CC3? Post them with CC3 in the Subject Line!
MY 'FAMOUS' CC3 MAPS: Thunderspire; Pyramid of Shadows; King of the Trollhaunt Warrens; Demon Queen's Enclave
Oh and RobA... check out the Dutch city maps. Canals all over the place, it's beautiful
Check out my City Designer 3 tutorials. See my fantasy (city) maps in this thread.
Gandwarf has fallen into shadow...
It's been mentioned in passing but to my knowledge not linked...and yer right, that's a great find. Snagged some for future reference.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
mmmmmm canals.
-Rob A>
My tutorials: Using GIMP to Create an Artistic Regional Map ~ All My Tutorials
My GIMP Scripts: Rotating Brush ~ Gradient from Image ~ Mosaic Tile Helper ~ Random Density Map ~ Subterranean Map Prettier ~ Tapered Stroke Path ~ Random Rotate Floating Layer ~ Batch Image to Pattern ~ Better Seamless Tiles ~ Tile Shuffle ~ Scale Pattern ~ Grid of Guides ~ Fractalize path ~ Label Points
My Maps: Finished Maps ~ Challenge Entries ~ My Portfolio: www.cartocopia.com
And the resolution is fantastic too...great find! I'll put it on the sticky too.
Great find! I'd love to see some of those styles in fantasy cartography
LOL, I wasn't really the first to find this site:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=3525
Neonknight beat me to it
Ah well... sorry for the double thread. I did a search, but couldn't find the URL.
I find it funny Neonknight was also the first to compliment me with this "find".
Check out my City Designer 3 tutorials. See my fantasy (city) maps in this thread.
Gandwarf has fallen into shadow...
Hi! I'm new in the forum.
In my first post i would like to give you a link to an old Spanish Atlas ("Imágenes de un Imperio Perdido. El Atlas del Marqués de Heliche", Images of a lost world. Marquis of Heliche's Atlas) There are lots of old city maps, from the Spanish dominios in XVI-XVII in (The Netherlands, Italy, Spain and America)
It quite big (496 MB, .zip file)
This are the links to the blog where I found it, the links are at the end of the post
http://4gatos.es/editorial/atlas-del...es-de-heliche/
this is the link to the atlas:
http://www.4gatos.es/Heliche/Atlas%20Heliche.zip
Bye, and enjoy the maps!
Last edited by pozinho; 01-25-2009 at 05:03 AM.
Gandwarf: thats some amazing site there - I too must have missed Neons link to it. Maybe it was the reference to the MotherLoad that peaked my interest but your right there are hundreds of high res old maps in there. Amazing and probably the best source out there.
Pozinho: Thats an interesting link too which I will look into as well. Welcome btw, post an intro and you can put yourself on the members location map too - link in my sig.
I repped both of you and tried Neon too but it seems that Neons been doing some other repworthy work recently.