I've been working on maps for the Bantam map book for most of the last week. So I may have wasted some of my time here but I'm sure I can adapt what I've done to match the official maps and that will give me a good background to build the animation on. > Of course having now finished the map I discover there is to be a Map of Ice and Fire book published later this year which will no doubt contain an official world map. There are certain things - the geography and location of the Summer Islands, the placement of Qarth and the Jade Gates, everything east of Slaver's Bay and the Dothraki Sea. And based on the information you have, it's quite good.īut of course there's lots of information you don't have, so it's not accurate. Of course I have already emailed a copy to George and here is what he said in his reply: I'm sure everyone will want to know if George has seen this and if so what he thinks of it. What George has to say about my speculative world map
But that will wait for the big update after the Maps of Ice and Fire book is published. In future I hope to smooth some of these rough patches out and blend the colours in a much better way. I must admit to taking a few shortcuts with the Dothraki Sea and the areas north and east of it. Some of the colour textures and transitions across Essos are a little rough. Please see the map legend in the top right hand corner of the speculative map for more details about this. The non-canon sections of Essos and non-canon city/town locations are clearly marked on the map. Please do not take this as an official map. This is very much a speculative map and will remain so until after the Maps of Ice and Fire book is published. This means that other fans are able to remix this map for their own fan based projects (non-commercial) and I'm sure there will be many people with lots of ideas for new ways to use the map, so that's another good reason to make this available now.
In the bottom left corner of all versions of my speculative map you'll find details of the Creative Commons licence with full details of what is and what is not allowed under the terms of the licence.
Use a hard refresh (shift + F5) to clear the problem and download a full new version of the page, otherwise you may load a cached version which repeats the same error. Check the top left corner of the map in case there is an error message with a map layer failing to load properly. The online interface is fairly memory intensive and due to the image sizes involved it is not recommended for users with slow connections to view it. I know gamers have been after this kind of map for a long while and I hope this will be useful to you guys. It is now possible to see Westeros in it's natural state devoid of the map features which obscure the landscape below. For example you can hide the labels or the city/town markers. One good reason to publish this map on the Internet now is that I have also created an interface which will allow viewers to show/hide the map features they choose. New versions of my speculative map will be posted on this website at a later date. I am confident that what I've done here can be reshaped according to the new maps so that eventually I will be able to create a full beautiful map which I will be using as the background for my Animated Timeline Map. And most fortunately none of this will be wasted. Well it would be a shame to let all that work go to waste. You may wonder why I am going ahead with releasing the map in light of this information. We will finally have official maps showing the real shape and position of all the known places in George's world. So that means in just over six months from the time I write this, my speculative map will become redundant. George has informed me ( see below) that the maps in this book will take us far beyond what we've seen before, going as far east as Asshai. Of course having just finished this map we now learn that George is working on a new book scheduled to be published later this year (30 October 2012) entitled Maps of Ice and Fire. I am happy to announce the map is now done. The second task I've been working on is to create a new map which incorporates both maps of Essos from A Dance With Dragons finished in the same art style as Tear's original Westeros map. Work is ongoing with this monumental task but I hope to have the spreadsheet finished before the end of 2012. First is a huge and complex spreadsheet which details the entire timeline of A Song of Ice and Fire. It may appear that work on my Animated Timeline Map project has stopped, but in fact a lot has been going on behind the scenes on two different fronts.