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    Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:29 am  
    Oerth Atlas

    For the Forgotten Realms setting, there is the Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas computer program. One of the features of this program is a globe representation of Toril. You can rotate it all sorts of ways. It shows you the permanent ice caps of both poles and every continent on the planet. It is an very useful tool. My question: Is there such a tool for the planet of Oerth?

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    Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:59 am  
    Home Made

    That's not to say that fans haven't made their own globes from various sources.






    I saved these in case I couldn't find them later. There was a whole thread here in canonfire on this same topic quite some time ago too.



    http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/80/l_0c9e26def23a4278939eb370636e6ac6.jpg

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    Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:56 pm  
    Oerth globe

    Boy, that second one is beautiful! I wish they would finish these someday, the sooner the better Happy Getting these on the flat would be sweet too!

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    Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:58 pm  
    Cartographer?

    BTW, do you know who the cartographers for these maps/globes were?

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    Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:19 pm  
    A beautiful all-inclusive map

    Re: the OP - The closest that I have seen is the cartography produced by Anna Bernemalm of GHmaps.net. It's wonderful work, and is very techinically advanced, and eventually - in the future - all of her work will be collected into a single atlas. but, for now ... GH doesn't have anything like that.

    Well, I have to say, the artistic/cartographic skill of the program that produced the second map, is indeed stunning. It has rendered a very nice map ... It's almost a spherical transverse mercator projection ... but, it's depicted as a globe, so I don't know. Love the work, though.

    As to it's content, rather than artistic value, it's something that I did when I was a younger man. The inclusiveness of wanting to place four or six or a dozen different setting continents on one globe is not uncommon, at all.
    obviously, it presents problems of its own - weather patterns and climate zones, agricultural regions and whatnot. I did it when I wanted to cherry-pick for my own campaign and wanted to have Kender, Strahd, Elminster and everything else all in one big world so that Plane Shift wasn't necessary. :)

    At any rate, it's a very beautiful rendering, as are the others. I love the Oerth Globe (the first one) despite its shiney-ness. I've loved it for quite some time, honestly. the others, using more "antique" looking maps.
    As a point of interest along the same lines ... here's a recent post that I put up in my art thread that has to do with a "new Oerth globe" map.

    It's about this map that I recently posted:
    There is a lot of stuff out there that's got to do with Oerth maps and stuff, it's just a matter of deciding what kind of representation you want to use.
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    Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:59 am  
    Sources

    1. I believe this is from some Oerth Journal artwork.

    2. I found this doing a Google Image search.

    3. This came from a Canonfire! thread where I cropped the tan and red map a canonfire user made and a different user with the Google Earth program stuffed the map in the program.

    4. This came from the same thread where I cropped and streatched the Dragon Magazine map to a 1:2 hight-width ratio and that same Google Earth user stuffed the image into Google Earth.

    There used to be more maps you could find by searching which included overlays of the Folio map and the T1-4 map but I can't find those in a search any more. Maybe someone remembers how to find that old thread where we discussing Oerth maps.

    My current take is that the Dragon Magazine map should probably be used as a player map while the later published maps like the one recently shared for the Living Greyhawk stuff be used as a DMs map. Oerth is an inset in that map of the Flaness.

    I'm also thinking that maybe the Aquariusly minded DMs could place that setting between the two big oceans with these maps if that setting is considered to be made up of small islands which don't show up on a small map of Oerth. Then the missing continent could be considered to be hidden above the north pole and I believe the requirements as described for the world against the description of Oerth could be explained. Though you could just as easily ignore these maps and use a sloppy reversed Earth map in it's place since Gygax didn't have the Dungeon Magazine map in mind for his original creation...he may not have had anything too-specific in mind at that point.
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    Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:11 pm  

    I'd love to get a full atlas map and full world map for the Oerth Journal and Canonfire both.Especially for the Beyond the Flanaess project we have running. I dont know it would be ready for OJ 26 but if it could be done that would rock!
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    Wed Mar 17, 2010 7:53 am  

    Here's the file I stretched to be 2x1 so it could be imported into Google Earth:



    I marked it up based on the latitude lines in the Greyhawk boxed set. I had tried to figure out how to import the file but I didn't see how and then my PC at the time crashed and I don't have Google Earth anymore.

    I'll have to dig around later for the tan and red one I cropped.
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    Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:45 am  
    Oerth World Map...

    Hi! I'm new to Canonfire, being a long-time Forgotten Realms gamer but now returning to my gaming roots (I started playing 1st Edition in Greyhawk back in '84) thanks to continued frustration with the Misbegotten Realms.

    I'm posting in this forum because I'm wondering if anyone has assembled (or thought about assembling) a large map of all of Oerth. I know there are some disagreements over "canon" geography outside of eastern Oerik, but I'm not familiar with the details. I found a map of Oerth (similar in geography to the one posted above) at http://www.greyhawkonline.com/duicarthan/oerth.jpg that looks good... except for the horribly derivative Asian realms, which I would rename and recast as something more original in any case; I have a few Ideas on that process. Having been away from the setting for so long, I'm curious as to what (if anything) canon has been released for Oerth outside of the Flanaess (and, on the same note, how much of the place-naming on the linked-to map is homebrew versus canon). In canon, Oerth has suffered the same problem as Toril, IMHO, in that every new edition reinvents the wheel in the same corner of the world (the Flanaess in GH or Faerun in FR) instead of exploring more of the rest of the globe. Confused

    As a side note: The big globe posted at the beginning of this thread is "4E Plan B" and is a fusion of the Flanaess, Faerun, Cerilia, Krynn, Kara-Tur, Athas, Eberron, and Mystara, with a few other settings thrown in to boot. It would have been a far more plausible setting for 4E than what was actually done to the Realms, imho... rolleyes
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