This is fantastic! I'm a sucker for using real world maps, but there's always a lot of work in making them gameable. So happy to have found this, I'm pretty sure it'll hit my gaming table when my current campaign wraps up later this year.
Exactly, yes. I’m using this map for my longtime campaign (it’s actually replacing the wonky map I made myself), and I want to map out geopolitical realms with it. I love this map!!
This is the single best hexmap I have EVER seen. Something as simple as "unfrozen antarctica" has been rendered in stunning detail and I am in love.
I've been thinking a lot about penguins, by sheer coincidence, and when I looked at these maps I could instantly imagine some grand flippered stories taking place in these lands. Sword and Shrimpery, perhaps?
I'll be borrowing this for my next adventure-- with credit, of course. So long and thanks for all the crawls!
Thanks! I used QGIS (a free, open source, geographic information system) to make & render these files. All except the .qmd file could also be opened in ArcGIS or or another GIS package. And the .csv file can also be opened and edited in Excel or Google Sheets, as it's just a data table.
This is super cool, need to find more stuff like this to help with making worlds. One of my (many) biggest hangups is getting the world all made up, and this map helps take that away. Cool stuff!
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This is fantastic! I'm a sucker for using real world maps, but there's always a lot of work in making them gameable. So happy to have found this, I'm pretty sure it'll hit my gaming table when my current campaign wraps up later this year.
This is astonishing work! Do you plan on releasing a version of the Map Key without the boxed references to the smaller maps?
Many thanks! And yeah, I can definitely do that – I assume for use as an overview map of the whole continent?
Exactly, yes. I’m using this map for my longtime campaign (it’s actually replacing the wonky map I made myself), and I want to map out geopolitical realms with it. I love this map!!
Awesome – I’ve added a color and greyscale overview map. Hope those work!
Thank you!
OH. MY. GOD
This is the single best hexmap I have EVER seen. Something as simple as "unfrozen antarctica" has been rendered in stunning detail and I am in love.
I've been thinking a lot about penguins, by sheer coincidence, and when I looked at these maps I could instantly imagine some grand flippered stories taking place in these lands. Sword and Shrimpery, perhaps?
I'll be borrowing this for my next adventure-- with credit, of course. So long and thanks for all the crawls!
So... game jam to fill Antarctica with adventures?
I've never run a game jam before but I'm open to it if there's interest!
Antarctic Adventure Jam 2025!
Looks great!.
What programs are .tif, .gpkg .csv and .qmd for? Don't recognize these
Thanks! I used QGIS (a free, open source, geographic information system) to make & render these files. All except the .qmd file could also be opened in ArcGIS or or another GIS package. And the .csv file can also be opened and edited in Excel or Google Sheets, as it's just a data table.
There's an old-ish tutorial for using QGIS for RPGs on my blog.
Brilliant work, thank you for sharing this.
Many thanks!
This is super cool, need to find more stuff like this to help with making worlds. One of my (many) biggest hangups is getting the world all made up, and this map helps take that away. Cool stuff!
Thank you! Yeah nothing like a few soft constraints to get past creative hangups.