When Real World Mapping Meets Tolkien
cartographyos mapstolkien As a full-time cartographer with previous experience as an ecologist, our guest blogger Dan Bell is a huge advocate of the outdoors. In his spare time, he enjoys fell/long distance running and is currently training to become a Mountain Leader in the Lake District! If that wasn’t enough, he also runs Middle Earth’s Maps. Here, he tells us how he has used (Ordnance Survey) OS data in his Tolkien-inspired mapping… Why are maps useful? Maps are a window into an unknown landscape. They are simplifications of an increasingly complex world, affording us the opportunit...
Source: ordnancesurvey.co.uk