Super Happy with how it came out!

As the title says, I'm a new hobbyist in cartography. I've always loved maps, having spent far too much time just staring at them with rapt attention, and I've love the idea of making maps, particularly by hand, but I've hardly done any.

That said, I haven't been able to find any good tutorials, video lectures, etc. online for non-artistic map making. I love artistic maps, sure, but I want to watch and learn from someone making topographical maps the same way that the train hobbyists can watch someone mess around with trains. I like the nitty gritty technical stuff and I want to learn the ins and outs, but all the channels I'm finding are the more artistic non-technical parts of map making (which I still watch and enjoy)

I already have QGIS (still watching tutorials and stuff), but I mostly enjoy the physical act of map making with a pencil and paper and I'm generally trying to spend less time staring at a screen as well.

Any suggestions are welcome ones!

Edit: Damn thank you folks so much, I've already gotten 8 different resources in all of 3 hours

I used the SRTM data to make these 10km x 10km elevatoin profiles of mountains. Green indicates lower and brown higher.

Let me know what you think this mountain is!

Here is the game link if you wanna check it out: https://visitwhale.com/peak-contours/ Im grateful for any kind of feedback!

I been looking into early American cadastral mapping, and I found it fascinating how completely the Public Land Survey System overrode the landscape. Before the late 18th century, property boundaries relied on the British metes-and-bounds system using trees, rocks, and stream beds that routinely shifted or rotted away, triggering endless boundary litigation.

Thomas Jefferson and early government surveyors replaced that organic layout with astronomical baseline grids. Surveyors dragged 66-foot iron chains through dense forests to subdivide the continent into rigid townships and 1 mile sections before anyone settled there.

This site can be used to layer over old maps of japan

(From 1928 to now)

[https://maps.gsi.go.jp\](https://maps.gsi.go.jp)

English version is limited so use japanese

I used it to look at damage from allied bombing in ww2

Hallo

Been building this solo: [intelmapper.com](http://intelmapper.com) — a real-time conflict map covering Ukraine and the Middle East. Events come from OSINT sources, get geolocated, scored for confidence, and corrected publicly when we get something wrong. Free to use, no signup for the core map; there's an optional premium tier (3D, flight tracking, archive) that keeps the servers running. Would love feedback on the UX and what you'd add.

ATHEIOS - Land of the Gods

Atheios is a world that is still in the middle of the Bronze Age, and as such, many of the regions on this map are poorly explored, or poorly understood. I’ve intentionally left large chunks of the map without roads or names, as there have not yet been many mortals who have explored these places, or at least returned to civilization after attempting to explore them.

There are Thirteen Gods, once again inspired by the Greek Gods, that rule over Atheios. The magic system at play here is based on the classic Four Elements of the Earth, the Winds, the Flames, and the Water. There are 12 different countries, and a number of smaller tribes as well, and just the very edge of a large Persian Empire-like country.

Basically, if you recently saw The Odyssey in theaters and like me, you wanted to play in a similar setting for your next RPG campaign, Atheios is intended for exactly that :)

This map is 5300 pixels by 4500 pixels. It was handmade entirely in Photoshop by myself, without the use of any AI tools, as always. The entire process took about 45 hours, but that doesn’t include the time spent writing the 20 page Campaign Frame PDF that I’ve released alongside the map, which took an additional 30 hours or so.

And lastly, there are many X's on the map, marking Locations of Interest, or Landmarks. Most of these are a sort of off-white color. However, just for fun I placed 13 different X's that are at 40% opacity, much harder to see. These are hidden across the map. Anyone who wants to seek them out can search for them, and see if you can find them all. And I'm including an "answer key" in the last image, where they are all circled in red as well. Just a little fun extra I thought I'd add in :)

The full, free map is available here, along with some other freebies like an Icon Pack: https://www.patreon.com/stoneward13/posts/free-atheios-of-167956154

Hey all, I'm working on my next book and for inspiration, I tend to look for weird things in the real world and expand on them, which got me thinking about cartography, geologic and geographic map oddities. For example, I'm looking for maps that illustrate the truly weird or unusual features of our planet, mainly in the eastern half of the USA. One idea was Bouger gravity anomaly maps, but I haven't seen one that stands out or has enough fine detail to work for my story. Does anyone know of any other kinds of maps or GIS data overlays that are unusual?

Posting to a few subs for visibility.

https://keystonegis.com/disasters/nepal-bhotekoshi-flood-20260826.html

Data is open source and available DOI is available through zenodo. Geo package contains metadata sidecars.

I will update that page NLT 1800EST

Hey all, I'm working on my next book and for inspiration, I tend to look for weird things in the real world and expand on them, which got me thinking about cartography, geologic and geographic map oddities. For example, I'm looking for maps that illustrate the truly weird or unusual features of our planet, mainly in the eastern half of the USA. One idea was Bouger gravity anomaly maps, but I haven't seen one that stands out or has enough fine detail to work for my story. Does anyone know of any other kinds of maps or GIS data overlays that are unusual?

i really appreciate you all for supporting my application (MAPDESK), i hope it was use usefull to all of you and i am looking forward to this in future. lets build it better and add more useful Cartography and GIS tools in the comming future. i am open for suggestions. it 20% off on the applixation for next one month go and grab it. once more thank you for all your support.