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David StarkI extracted over 400 images of hills, trees, mountains, towns and cities for #ttrpg mapmaking and #gamedev from a 17th century map. I hope this is useful to someone. https://zarkonnen.itch.io/extracted-1688-map-images
If you have other public domain maps with other kinds of interesting features you'd like me to process like this, let me know.
Giacomo Miceli@Zarkonnen very cool!
Tabula Peutingeriana, from the 5th century AD, would be a good candidate, it's full of city/town representations.
@jamez Checking that out now.
joël@Zarkonnen The Ferraris Map comes to mind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferraris_map
https://www.kbr.be/en/the-ferraris-map/
not sure if there is an easy to retrieve copy somewhere, but a lot of it is on wikimedia.
@Zarkonnen the "Bairische Landtafeln" look also cool: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bairische_Landtafeln
@jollysea That looks like a likely candidate, yes!
Jeremy (he/him/his)@Zarkonnen Wonderful stuff! I think this 17th century atlas of Siberia is lovely: https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:18273155$24i. There's some additional context about the maps here: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/research-initiatives/imperiia-project/siberian-sketchbook
frd💾@Zarkonnen Not quite what you're looking for, but K.M. Alexander is also releasing map brush packs under CC0 license: https://kmalexander.com/free-stuff/fantasy-map-brushes/
@FredBednarski Oh these are really cool, thanks for linking!
Jonas R. (er/ihm)@Zarkonnen Very cool! Could you add the source of the 1688 map you used? Stuff like title, engraver, printer? (I know you have linked it, but copying the citation + DOI would be great.)
I think Merian's Topographia Germaniae might contain more interesting bits, but that would probably spread out over a bunch of various engravings. The work includes maps and panoramic views. Here's the Commons category: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Topographia_Germaniae, most of the files are in subcategories. #Merian
Seiðr@Zarkonnen It will be, I can tell you.
dasparadoxon@Zarkonnen cool ! I did this once as well for a remix competition of the german culture institution when they put their whole old digital maps under CC. but never finished it, wanted to make a strategic war game with it.
John Godsland@Zarkonnen Awesome! Thank you. I'm sure I can make use of these.
Imperor 🎲🎮@Zarkonnen That's really cool! Good looking assets like these can be a bit troublesome to find, so that's great work!
Alex ☕🇨🇦@Zarkonnen this is amazing!
Paul Drye@Zarkonnen Nice! Thank you.
Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤@Zarkonnen me! me! me!
vfig@Zarkonnen oh this is awesome!
oparisy@vfig @Zarkonnen Public domain in, public domain out! Bravo
Red@Zarkonnen
excellent!!
excellent!!
Mental@Zarkonnen Thats super cool of you ngl
Nicola Cocchiaro@Zarkonnen OOO I like this!
Roni Äikäs ⚛️@Zarkonnen Me and few friends are making a RPG project, so this will likely be useful. Thanks!
Jassy@Zarkonnen do you remember the '80s PC game "Skis", where you skied down a slope until eventually got eaten up by a monster?
This.
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Mr. Completely@Zarkonnen very cool
Sablebadger@Zarkonnen very cool!!
masukomi@Zarkonnen that is awesome. Thanks so much for sharing it.
Call me Bear@Zarkonnen Thank you! This looks great.
Nora Reed@Zarkonnen oh SWEET
Sean Killeen@Zarkonnen @SkyeTheSkater I naturally thought of you when I saw this.
Jared
Thom Zane@Zarkonnen That set would be a nice addition to OpenGameArt. https://opengameart.org/
David Dunham@Zarkonnen Gonna take a look, at the very least it will up my placeholder art quality
@Zarkonnen hey if i made a bot out of these how would you like to be credited? happy to link the itchio page but if you want me to link a tip jar or anything i'd be happy to
@NoraReed Go ahead - linking the itch page is fine.
Troy@Zarkonnen Beautiful, I love this!
Galad
Anja Schillhaneck@Zarkonnen this is awesome!
Joan GreyYay, thank you!
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Chris Ainsworth@Zarkonnen this is wonderful, thank you!
arnicas@Zarkonnen omg i love this, putting in my newsletter
@Zarkonnen oh crap, i forgot. will do it next time (when it's open access anyway!)
Cyrille MdC@Zarkonnen Very cool and exciting. This is going to distract me from work ... something to come back to. Yeah the Ferris map @jollysea suggested is a good one, otherwise the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200m.gct00003/?st=gallery&c=160
Or here, another copy of it:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200m.gct00126/?sp=36&r=0.544,0.35,0.273,0.166,0
Winchell Chung ⚛🚀I don't know if these are out of copyright or not.
Principles of Cartography by Erwin Raisz, 1962
Jonathan Harmon
lonehorizons@Zarkonnen today I learned Germany is very hilly.
David Lohner
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Eystein Roll Aarseth
benteh@halfawake @Zarkonnen lovely!!
Erik (OLD ACCOUNT)@Zarkonnen it will be to me! Thank you for the work!
Martin Seeger@Zarkonnen This is a treasure trove for people creating maps for TTRPGs. Love it!
Nike Leonhard@Zarkonnen Thank you! This is really great!
PhantaNews ✅@Zarkonnen Amazing! Thanks a lot! I featured you on Phantanews (german only): https://phantanews.de/wp/2024/01/rollenspiel-kartenmacher-ueber-400-gemeinfreie-icons-auf-itch-io/
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