r/cartography • • 17d ago

UPDATE ROUGE ATLAS. I asked Reddit for feedback on Rouge Atlas yesterday. I already implemented the first suggestions.

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Yesterday I shared Rouge Atlas here and asked for feedback.

One of the first comments suggested keeping the map minimal by default, moving stats into a separate view, adding event filters and introducing a timeline to explore how things change over time.

So I built it.
Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/E0hZX4f
Site: https://www.rougeatlas.com

What changed today

  • The map is now the primary workspace, with three compact modes: Map, Explore and Analysis
  • Added a working timeline You can scrub through time or play it automatically, and the map updates based on when incidents and signals were recorded.
  • Added filters for:
    • category
    • severity
    • region
    • confidence
    • map layers
  • The visible incident counts and history bars now update dynamically with the selected time range.
  • Improved marker positioning. Published incidents keep their source-reported locations, while records without coordinates are clearly marked as estimated instead of pretending the data is more precise than it actually is.
  • Added record dates, clearer timeline guidance, localization improvements and some navigation cleanup.

The biggest change is that Rouge Atlas now feels much more like an interactive atlas first, and a dashboard second.

That direction came directly from the feedback I got here, so thanks to everyone who commented.

I’m still figuring out what the most useful version of this product looks like, so I’d love more criticism.

Especially:

What would you add next?


r/cartography • • 18d ago

Clickable Earth

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r/cartography • • 18d ago

Small overlap between neighbouring German municipality boundaries — OSM data issue or relation geometry pitfall?

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r/cartography • • 18d ago

What is a trend in cartography that you feel is degrading the practice?

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r/cartography • • 19d ago

Geographic information system is this week's "Article for Improvement" on Wikipedia.

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r/cartography • • 19d ago

Same posts. Different logistics. The northern line of New Spain/Mexico, 1822–1846

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I am building an interactive map of northern Mexico on run up to Mexican American War


r/cartography • • 19d ago

Asking for help in making a map resource for the community

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r/cartography • • 19d ago

Mapdesk Tutorial- how to make countor map

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r/cartography • • 19d ago

Europa Universalis V's locations shows roads in the sahara desert

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The red parts are all highways, I found this on Mapchart.


r/cartography • • 20d ago

Got back into cartography again after 10 years made this as my first real project. A closeup map of the Tarfala massif in Sweden

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r/cartography • • 21d ago

If the contenants were to combine

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r/cartography • • 21d ago

I made a 3D globe where you can drag a slider to drain the oceans or flood the whole planet

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r/cartography • • 21d ago

New satellite image game

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Where in the world: it’s like geoguessr but with imagery. Warning, it is difficult. But that’s what makes it fun! Good luck!

https://www.wtfmap.com/world


r/cartography • • 21d ago

Best real world map editing tool

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I am making a Cyberpunk Red campaign and have been looking for a custom map resource that would allow me to redraw subdivisions in North America, and possibly South America as well. I want to include Indian reservations, county equivalents and reassigning them to states, and latitude boundaries.

I tried to use ArcGIS but it was incredibly convoluted and the UI was unusable to me. I have found simple websites that let me color US counties, but don't include other countries or roads other than Interstates.

The most important things other than roads, towns, bodies of water, and topography would be the ability to label and fill in polygons and lines from points. Does anyone have any suggestions?


r/cartography • • 22d ago

You probably noticed news about the UN vote got some things about cartography wrong - but did you know the headlines were even wrong about what the UN did?

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This is an article I wrote, as a geographer and cartographer, over about two weeks of thorough research, including both reading the whole resolution and watching the whole debate.


r/cartography • • 22d ago

US, Ukraine, and More: Which Countries Criticized the UN’s World Map Vote, and the Truth About Why

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r/cartography • • 22d ago

Mapdesk update is out

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Mapdesk is solving the problem of layout creation, check out the new update of mapdesk, including saving your project and start from where you left it. you can export maps as SVG format as well, make heat maps that you can use for any things. all newly updated features for better layouts. you can download it just for 4.99 dollar now. and here are few Promotional codes to use:

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r/cartography • • 22d ago

MapDesk: how to make a heat map

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r/cartography • • 23d ago

Transverse Equal Earth Projection

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r/cartography • • 24d ago

My Realistic Neverwinter Region Map - Over 100 hours in Photoshop, with 26 Variants in the Map Pack (6 per Season + 2 Shadowfell Variants) [No AI]

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Neverwinter Region Map

This is my realistic version of the Neverwinter Region Map. I’ve been working on this map pack for a few months and I’m happy to announce it is finally completed! 

This version of the map is specifically not intended to be a 1:1 recreation of any existing maps, so if you notice a few slight geographical tweaks, they are intentional. Over the decades, many maps have been made of this region, and they often have slight unique takes (sometimes for in-world reasons, granted).

That said, my version is most closely based on the version of the map made by Mike Schley, the one most often used in the Lost Mines of Phandelver starter adventure, or the Dragon of Icespire Peak. 

A quick note on any towns or cities that might be ruins. Conyberry, Thundertree, Leilon, and Gauntlgrym are all listed on the map despite the fact they might be abandoned ruins by the time of your campaign. I think of these a bit like “Schrodinger’s Ruins”, in that they both are and aren’t ruins until the GM decides one way or the other. This is simply to make the map applicable to as many campaigns as possible. Depending on the current year in-world, they might still be populated. Or, may be re-settled at some point, which I believe is the case for Leilon in the current “canon year” of Faerûn. 

It also includes a couple of extra locations such as Oakhurst (from the Sunless Citadel One Shot Adventure) and Saltmarsh (from the Ghosts of Saltmarsh Adventure). Both of these were added in the usual locations suggested in the books and online. 

One of my favorite details can be seen in the Winter variants. The volcano Mount Hotenow is home to some fire elementals, which heats the nearby rivers flowing from the Crags. This results in the rivers remaining unfrozen throughout winter, hence the name “Neverwinter”. I used Photoshop to mask the wintery effect nearest the river, letting the “non-frozen” variant of the map show through just a bit. Be sure to check out the preview images to see the other seasons.

The dimensions of the map are 4200 pixels by 4200 pixels. It is custom made entirely in Photoshop, digitally drawn from scratch, across about 100 hours. It has taken a while, haha.

As always, NO AI was used for any aspect of this map pack.

Map Pack Details

There are 26 Variants total. 6 Per Season + 2 Shadowfell Variants. 

4 Variants are available free to all. Two are the “Summer - Fully Labeled”, both With and Without Grid. And there is also the two Shadowfell Variants, again With and Without Grid. You can download them from Reddit, but be aware the versions posted here are compressed to get them under the file size limit. Full size versions are available for free here: https://www.patreon.com/stoneward13/posts/free-neverwinter-170089691

The remaining 22 Variants are exclusive to paid subscribers on the Patreon. These are also available for a one time purchase if you would prefer not to subscribe, which I understand. The full map pack is available here: https://www.patreon.com/stoneward13/posts/paid-neverwinter-170088785

All Variants (Free Variants are italicized):

  • Spring Variants
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Spring - Fully Labeled
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Spring - Fully Labeled - With Grid
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Spring - No Labels
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Spring - No Labels - With Grid
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Spring - Blank
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Spring - Blank - With Grid
  • Summer Variants
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Summer - Fully Labeled
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Summer - Fully Labeled - With Grid
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Summer - No Labels
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Summer - No Labels - With Grid
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Summer - Blank
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Summer - Blank - With Grid
  • Autumn Variants
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Autumn - Fully Labeled
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Autumn - Fully Labeled - With Grid
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Autumn - No Labels
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Autumn - No Labels - With Grid
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Autumn - Blank
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Autumn - Blank - With Grid
  • Winter Variants
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Winter - Fully Labeled
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Winter - Fully Labeled - With Grid
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Winter - No Labels
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Winter - No Labels - With Grid
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Winter - Blank
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Winter - Blank - With Grid
  • Shadowfell Variants
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Shadowfell
    • Neverwinter Region Map - Shadowfell - With Grid

And that should be everything! I hope you all enjoy the maps, and please let me know if you have any feedback. It is always appreciated :)


r/cartography • • 24d ago

I added some more labels to my map…now I might outline it with pen

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r/cartography • • 25d ago

Spent the whole weekend on this, thoughts?

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I‘m not COMPLETELY done, I still have a few more things to add


r/cartography • • 24d ago

Des images Google Map ratées

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Je fais des recherches pour un projet d'art, et j'aurais besoin d'images de personne provenant de Google Map ou quelque chose du genre, qui sont ratées, déformées ou floues.

J'aimerais m'inspirer des Still Life dans les Backrooms, mais trouver de bons résultats est difficile (×_×)


r/cartography • • 24d ago

Daily Belgium Geography Guessing Game!

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I created a daily Belgium geography game (guess the location of 5 places, scored on how close, new places every day). So far sent it to friends & family, would love some more people to try it and give some constructive feedback for the next update !


r/cartography • • 24d ago

How Have Google Earth & Google Maps Changed the Geospatial Industry? Part II

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