Between summer sessions and the fall semester I finally have free time to read the books. When they came in from Amazon I literally squealed with joy. Clash of Kings is ON
Here's something of use - a Google Earth plug-in for Westeros. The map isn't as cool -- and as far as I know there's no canonical scale to Westeros (this has the Kingsroad from Winterfell to King's Landing at about 2300 miles) -- but fun.
I was just saying above that we needed a Google Maps for Westeros, and then I saw your comment. We do have a canonical scale -- Martin says that Westeros is about the size of South America, he's given us maps, and Yoren says it's 1000 leagues from Kings' Landing to the Wall.
True enough -- and I was thinking of those two very details -- but I don't think that gets you closer than 20-25%. A League can be Roman (1.4 mi) or European (3mi) or something else.
(Oh, and if you leave your "Borders and Labels" layer on the layers for Earth countries will come through the layer - so you can see it compared to Africa -- at least on my version).
Okay, we might have an answer on the leagues question--they would appear to be European. I'm reading Clash again right now, and I've come across this line, "'Two miles upstream,' said Tom. 'A league at most.'"
(I'm reading it on Kindle, but for help if you want to see it for yourself, this is an Arya chapter where she meets up with SPOILERS SPOILERS three men in the forest after escaping Harrenhall with Gendry and Hot Pie. END SPOILERS END)
That's the best map of Westeros I've seen- I just wish it were interactive, and popped up information on each of the shields and other graphics.
ReplyDeleteWell that's kept me distracted from release notes for about half an hour. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteAlso is anyone else a sucker for an accordion?
Considering how useless the map is in Crows right now for me, I wish I could freaking search for locations.
ReplyDeleteMade me want to fish around the garage for my "World of Greyhawk" map. Very cool.
ReplyDeleteBetween summer sessions and the fall semester I finally have free time to read the books. When they came in from Amazon I literally squealed with joy. Clash of Kings is ON
ReplyDeleteThe maps in the Kindle versions are even worse than the ones in the books. Completely useless. This one is great (but would be even better annotated.)
ReplyDeleteHere's something of use - a Google Earth plug-in for Westeros. The map isn't as cool -- and as far as I know there's no canonical scale to Westeros (this has the Kingsroad from Winterfell to King's Landing at about 2300 miles) -- but fun.
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I was just saying above that we needed a Google Maps for Westeros, and then I saw your comment. We do have a canonical scale -- Martin says that Westeros is about the size of South America, he's given us maps, and Yoren says it's 1000 leagues from Kings' Landing to the Wall.
ReplyDeleteTrue enough -- and I was thinking of those two very details -- but I don't think that gets you closer than 20-25%. A League can be Roman (1.4 mi) or European (3mi) or something else.
ReplyDelete(Oh, and if you leave your "Borders and Labels" layer on the layers for Earth countries will come through the layer - so you can see it compared to Africa -- at least on my version).
Okay, we might have an answer on the leagues question--they would appear to be European. I'm reading Clash again right now, and I've come across this line, "'Two miles upstream,' said Tom. 'A league at most.'"
ReplyDelete(I'm reading it on Kindle, but for help if you want to see it for yourself, this is an Arya chapter where she meets up with SPOILERS SPOILERS three men in the forest after escaping Harrenhall with Gendry and Hot Pie. END SPOILERS END)