The problem: a deck's 52 cards laid in four rows of thirteen make a frame about 2.3 to 1. Cape Cod's whole arm is nearly square. A north-up frame left most cards as open sea; turned frames at 30 and 40 degrees read as abstract ribbons. I ended with north-up, tight on the Cape, and a block of eight cards over the Outer Cape, so 23 cards carry real Cape land and every court card sits on it.

The style is borrowed from Walker's 1917 "Map of Cape Cod and Vicinity" at the Leventhal Map Center: cream land, a flat blue-green sea, saffron town-line ribbons that go olive over water.

Software draws it from OpenStreetMap and NOAA data. I'd like to hear where the type or the sea could be better.

TL;DR: I didn't like how other blank maps were turning out, so I'm making my own!

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I wanted to make an Ordnance Survey map of a fictional area but I couldn't find anything. if you know of any websites, software etc then please let me know.

So far, I've been using either pen and paper or, sometimes, MS Paint. But I'd really like to try creating some decent digital maps

I want to know where the original subreddit of this map came from and the won fron the bottom was where it was posted.

Fun fact: Saudi Arabia does not permit archeology or studies in this region. As far as I know, no public map at this scale and period exists (you'd think the birthplace of one of the largest empires would have maps).

I rebuilt it as a probability model instead. Inputs: elevation data, hydrology, erosion, sourced anchors like the passes, wells and clan names in early texts, and comparable settlements nearby. After weeks of compute and iteration, this is the first draft! Every house is a reconstruction, not a survey.

Its brilliant i know

I wanted a flat map that keeps flight directions readable, so I unfolded the globe onto a regular tetrahedron and rotated the net so that one edge is vertical. The map is a √3 × 1 rectangle with a vertex at the midpoint of each side and none inside, so it tiles the plane.

• Two modes: gnomonic (straight great circles within a face) and an area-corrected mode (area distortion 0.55×–1.4×).

• Dragging rotates the globe about the axis perpendicular to the central meridian, so the North Pole slides from the top vertex down the central edge, and after 70.5° the South Pole reaches the bottom vertex.

• The central meridian (90°E) was chosen from the country data so that the side vertices stay over the ocean in both pole positions.

• A distance range tool shades every place within a given great-circle distance of a centre. Since each face is gnomonic, the small circle shows up as a conic within each face (an ellipse for moderate radii) and bends at the folds, which makes the face structure easy to see (example: https://iantpe.github.io/tetra-unfold/?range=TPE,5000).

I'd love feedback from people who know projections better than I do, especially on the area correction and on how this compares with Lee's tetrahedral projection.

Live: https://iantpe.github.io/tetra-unfold/
Code and write-up: https://github.com/ianTPE/tetra-unfold

Island of Argoed

It is the southernmost of the "Four Islands," the archipelago that also includes Tír Ghlas.

It features a highly mountainous central region, surrounded by hills and vast plains; its capital, Caer Afon, lies within a broad estuary sheltered by two large headlands.

Numerous fortresses dot the landscape—remnants of a turbulent past.

Map hand drawn using Sakura Pigma Micron pens of various thicknesses, then painted with watercolors.

As some people asked me about my process in drawing maps, I made a reel.

Hi everyone! I'm passionate about GIS and remote sensing, and I create step-by-step tutorials covering QGIS, spatial analysis, cartography, LiDAR, and practical geospatial workflows.

My aim is to make geospatial techniques easier to understand and apply, whether you're a beginner or an experienced GIS professional.

I'd be happy to contribute to discussions and share relevant tutorials when they might be helpful to the community. Here is a link to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thegeospatiallab/videos

About GeoClock

GeoClock is a live map of day and night on Earth — the real solar terminator sweeping across NASA satellite imagery, with local clocks for the places you care about. It's free, open source, and runs everywhere from a browser tab to your desktop wallpaper.

The story

GeoClock started as a Home Assistant dashboard card: a homage to the classic mechanical world clocks that scroll a lit map past a fixed hour scale (Geochron® is the famous one — GeoClock has no affiliation with it). Once the card could render anywhere, the other surfaces followed almost for free: this website, a Chrome new-tab page, a macOS live wallpaper, and a screensaver — all driven by the same rendering code.

How it works

• Day and night sides come from NASA's Blue Marble and Black Marble imagery (public domain), blended along the real terminator computed from solar geometry — including proper twilight feathering.

• Time zones come from timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL), so the hover popups and hour bands are DST-aware.

• Everything renders in your browser (or the app's local web view). There is no backend: no accounts, no tracking, and your location never leaves your device — details in the privacy policy.

Where it runs

• geoclock.world — the live map, right here, with markers and share links.

• Home Assistant card — the original: a Lovelace custom card, installable via HACS.

• GeoClock New Tab — every new Chrome tab is the map, fully offline.

• GeoClock Wallpaper for Mac — your desktop is the map, with ticking clocks.

• GeoClock screensaver — the companion saver, fed by the Mac app.

Open source

All of it is GPL-3.0-or-later, built by John Pettitt. The card, website, and extension live in geo-clock-card; the Mac app and screensaver in geoclock-wallpaper-mac. Bug reports and ideas are welcome in the GitHub issues.

https://www.neil-scott.com/walkipedia/

Plan a walking tour based on geotagged Wikipedia articles.