This map depicts the metro system of Déplenne, the second largest city of a fictional version of North America with the former Dutch colonies surviving and thriving, leading to a more Dutch America.

And a "satellite" view of the same https://i.imgur.com/YyF3JPJ.jpeg

This was made with a combination of Inkscape, Gimp, and a janky but delightful erosion-simulation tool called Wilbur http://www.fracterra.com/wilbur.html

This is a map I made about a year back after encountering Hamilton Inlet and the associated Lake Melville on a map. It looked like the sort of place a medieval Norseman might call home, and when I checked it's climate was actually nicer than the one around the real Greenland settlements.

In this alternate history it was settled and managed to survive until European fishermen arrived in the area in the 1400s. With closer connections to across the Atlantic after that, it then carried on down to the modern day, a bit like Iceland but not as populous.

Its look was inspired by the National Geographic infographic maps of the 70s and 80s.

Jerry Gretzinger has been drawing and updating this map one panel at a time based on random card draws. Over the decades his style and art interests have changed and that's reflected in the map.

I bought a few panels and I love them. I've been aware of the project for years and years. I would love to see it in an exhibition somewhere.

This is a massive city map (that I am currently reworking and making even larger) of Wisburg. A fictional Dutch-style city of over 2 million people. This is just the city center, mind you. It has over 2000 unique streetnames.

a mysterious place with forts, caves, apple trees. drawn by a nerdy kid in the 1970s

cross-posted from: https://hobbit.world/post/7613

This is a wonderful stylized version of the Middle Earth map which shows the path of the ring, although you need to zoom in to see all those lines. The orientation of things is kind of all over the place, but that was obviously done in order to fit all the different places into a single image. I wouldn't use it to actually travel in Middle Earth, but it looks amazing.

Minas Tirith and Mordor are positioned side by side like normal in the front, but behind we actually see things going westward with Isengaard in the middle left. Then Hobbiton, Bree, Weathertop, Rivendell, Lorien, and Moria along the top left to right. I won't list every place in there, but they managed to cram practically everything in there.

I wanted to link to the gif of the making of this image, but Lemmy didn't like it. But, I strongly recommend [checking it out](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3f4f2e4b059a433ff6daa/1439284628691-IY1FP7W