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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<meta charset=utf-8 />
<title>Adereon</title>
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<img class="max-image-width" src="adereon-map-1200px.png"=>
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<section>
<br><a href='adereon-map-8000px.png' class="linkbox" target=blank>Click here for full screen map</a>
<h1>Mapping Adereon: A Fantasy Cartography Project</h1>
<h2>By Ian Spangler</h2>
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<p>The known landmasses of Adereon have never been mapped – until now.
<br><p>Over the past two years, I have been playing quite a bit of Dungeons & Dragons
My friend Nate is in the process of homebrewing his own universe, and I thought it
would be a fun exercise to digitize the maps that he had drawn (see Figure 1).
<br><p>The above map represents the cartographic fruits of my labor. Making this map involved
three steps, more or less: 1) choosing a coordinate system and projection; 2) georeferencing;
and 3) digitizing. I chose to project this data on to the moon, because that was a closer approximation
of the globe that Nate envisioned than our Earth is. Nate provided me with two maps – one of topographic
features and one of political boundaries – which I had to georeference with one another. Digitizing was
straightforward but arduous. I spent far more time trying to design a workflow for vectorizing the
hand-drawn maps that Nate provided, and it worked but not well (that process is detailed in my methodology below).
<br><p>The total contents of the map include a few forests, some rivers, and the countries &
continents of Adereon (which is the name of this imaginary world). While Nate included mountains
on his original map, I had trouble representing them cartographically without generating a raster, and
that was beyond the scope of this project.
<br><p>I had a vision for this project that was much larger than I could actually carry out. I wanted to
complete three other things: 1) create a flow map using the QGIS Flow Mapper plugin of political alliances, 2)
digitize data for a city, and 3) publish this as a slippy map that could be explored, zoomed into, and scrolled throug. Still, in the course
of this project I created the rough, first draft of a dataset that can be revisited and continously updated
as my D&D group explores this territory. In the future, I'll hopefully be completing those updates as I'm able,
and adding other bits of infill such as roads, mountains, and more detailed rivers.
<br><p>Thanks for reading!
<br><p><i>A detailed account of the methodology, including my failed attempt at automating the workflow, can be found <a href="" target=blank>here</a>.</i></p>
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<img class="max-image-width" src="adereon-topo-map.jpg">
<p class="linkbox">Figure 1: This is the original map of Adereon, drawn by my friend Nate.
Note the differences in size, which I changed during the georeferencing process.</p>
<!-- Challenge photograph -->
<img class="max-image-width" src="adereon-demo-1200px.png">
<p class="linkbox">Figure 2: This shows the georeferences version of Nate's map overlaid option
the map I created in QGIS. In some ways I prefer this version, for its blend of physical and digital cartography. A higher resolution image can be found <a href="adereon-demo-1200px.png" target="blank">here</a>.</p>
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<hr>
<h3>How was this map made?</h3>
This map was made in QGIS 3.4 on MacOS 10.13.1. It is projected in IAU2000:301000.
It utilized data from the <a href='https://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/pigwad/down/moon_dl.htm'>USGS
Lunar GIS FTP site</a>, and my friend Nate's imagination.
<p>
<strong>University of Kentucky New Maps Plus, Fall 2018.</strong>
</p>
<hr>
<ul>
<li>Follow me on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/itspangler">@itspangler</a></li> <!-- or any other social media site -->
<li>Visit my Github account <a href='https://github.com/itspangler'>@itspangler</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://newmapsplus.github.io">New Maps Plus</a></li>
</ul>
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