Questions tagged [map]
For questions about in-universe maps for a work of science fiction or fantasy: requesting a map of an area in a fictional world, or explanations of a feature on such a map, for example.
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What happened to Pelmar and the originally sketched Arda?
I’m currently reading through The Silmarillion, and there is this map's discrepancy that I cannot get my head around.
First, there was this sketch of Arda with a central landmass Pelmar, the west and ...
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Is there an official map of Querencia?
There are official maps for Bienvenido which appears later on in the series and for the city of Makkathran. The map for Bienvenido is featured in the physical books yet I have been unable to find one ...
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Why was the visitor center located on the opposite side of the island from the docks and helipad?
The map in this question about Nedry's exit strategy led me to wonder why on Earth they would build the visitor center on the opposite side of the island from the docks and helipad. This appears to ...
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Are there any drawings showing the routes the three main companies followed in chapter two of the Return of the King?
Are there any drawings showing the routes that the three companies: Théoden, The Grey Company, Aragorn and Halbarad followed in the events in chapter 2, The Passing of the Grey Company, Lord of the ...
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Is this "satellite photo" the only representation of the shape of Gilligan's Island?
From How many independent demonstrations of optical communications between ground and space have been successful?
As everybody knows, the pioneering work of The Professor and his serendipitous ...
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What is the Real Scale of the Breath of the Wild Map?
I am questioning the world as it was built in the game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Consider the following map:
Using the game's own paragliding system, it's been calculated that the map ...
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What was the earliest printed map in the modern (since 1800) fantasy genre?
Like many readers, I was enraptured by the maps in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954-55) and The Hobbit (1937). After their 1965 reprinting in a widespread American edition, maps became ...
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What was the earliest printed map in the modern science fiction genre?
Like many readers, I was enraptured by the maps in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954-55) and The Hobbit (1937). After their 1965 reprinting in a widespread American edition, maps became ...
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Did Bilbo Baggins draw?
We know that Bilbo was fond of maps and lettering "even though his own writing was rather thin and spidery", but did Bilbo make his own maps or illustrate his adventures in the Red Book or 'There and ...
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Are there detailed maps of the first Death Star available anywhere?
As a way to make fitness more fun, I'm planning a virtual walk on the Death Star, tracking my distance/steps taken and mapping them out on a map of the Death Star, so that I can, for instance, walk ...
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Is there a large map of Tatooine?
I wanted to make the Tatooine globe with my hands, but I realized that a map of it is probably nowhere, and I would like to know if there is a version (whether it is canon or Legends) of this Atlas ...
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Is there a Howard-canon map of Conan's world?
In 1936 "The Hyborian Age: Conan's World", Howard laid out a somewhat detailed "canon" history of Conan's world, pre- and post-cataclysm.
This included verbal description of the world maps and where ...
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How are the Forks connected in the Trident?
In the maps at the beginning of A Song of Ice and Fire books there is something that tickles me: on the map of "The North", the Red Fork and the Blue Fork flow into each other and meet the Green Fork ...
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Ender's Game movie Battle School dimensions and floor plan?
Do a floorplan, dimensions, rotation rates, max population, docking specs etc. exist for the Battle School space station in the 2013 movie version of Ender's Game?
I've found a few deductions based ...
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Is there a canonical map of Babylon 5?
Throughout the TV series Babylon 5, we hear about different sections of the eponymous space station referred to by colours and numbers, e.g. "Green Two" or "Grey Seventeen". These two parts of the ...
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