
Monsen
Monsen
About
- Username
- Monsen
- Joined
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- Roles
- Administrator
- Points
- 8,858
- Birthday
- May 14, 1976
- Location
- Bergen, Norway
- Website
- https://atlas.monsen.cc
- Real Name
- Remy Monsen
- Rank
- Cartographer
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- 27
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[WIP] Community Atlas: Kumarikandam - SE Tiantang Region
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[WIP] Community Atlas: Kumarikandam - SE Tiantang Region
A new great set of maps are integrated into the atlas. Thanks to @Ricko and @Royal Scribe .
Note Kevin: You didn't supply a .fcw for the cave map, so I can't do that one until you do.
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Working on Atlas maps....
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What got you into cartography?
@Royal Scribe wrote:
I even had Karen Wynn Fonstad's Atlas of Middle Earth
Now, there's a familiar name. I've never seen her Middle Earth atlas, but I do have her Forgotten Realms atlas on my bookshelf, full of lovely hand-drawn maps.
Contrary to many of you, I had an upbringing where fantasy was simply not on the menu. I don't think my family had anything against it, it was simply not something they had heard about either. It was never a topic among the kids at school either. Tolkien was something I only learned of as an adult, after I learned about role-playing games which happened in my mid-teens. First as computer games (Eye of the Beholder anyone?), then the real deal.
I guess the closest I got to fantasy was the Narnia books, which I guess by one definition clearly fits the genre, but on the other hand doesn't really match up with the common fantasy archetypes, and I don't think there was any maps in any of the books I had.
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Show us your map collection!
I have a couple hanging around. All reproductions unfortunately, no originals.
Sorry for the image quality, but most of my stuff is hanging in a narrow hallway, so it is nearly impossible to get the camera far enough away to take a proper picture and getting proper lighting.
The one I kind of like the most is my tapestry though. The type of medium do lower the quality of details in the map, because it is woven, not just a simple cloth print, but that also makes it look very nice on my wall.
And some other ones, often purchased during travels:
Northern Europe
Iceland:
Europe: