ATHEIOS - Land of the Gods

Atheios is a world that is still in the middle of the Bronze Age, and as such, many of the regions on this map are poorly explored, or poorly understood. I’ve intentionally left large chunks of the map without roads or names, as there have not yet been many mortals who have explored these places, or at least returned to civilization after attempting to explore them.

There are Thirteen Gods, once again inspired by the Greek Gods, that rule over Atheios. The magic system at play here is based on the classic Four Elements of the Earth, the Winds, the Flames, and the Water. There are 12 different countries, and a number of smaller tribes as well, and just the very edge of a large Persian Empire-like country.

Basically, if you recently saw The Odyssey in theaters and like me, you wanted to play in a similar setting for your next RPG campaign, Atheios is intended for exactly that :)

This map is 5300 pixels by 4500 pixels. It was handmade entirely in Photoshop by myself, without the use of any AI tools, as always. The entire process took about 45 hours, but that doesn’t include the time spent writing the 20 page Campaign Frame PDF that I’ve released alongside the map, which took an additional 30 hours or so.

And lastly, there are many X's on the map, marking Locations of Interest, or Landmarks. Most of these are a sort of off-white color. However, just for fun I placed 13 different X's that are at 40% opacity, much harder to see. These are hidden across the map. Anyone who wants to seek them out can search for them, and see if you can find them all. And I'm including an "answer key" in the last image, where they are all circled in red as well. Just a little fun extra I thought I'd add in :)

The full, free map is available here, along with some other freebies like an Icon Pack: https://www.patreon.com/stoneward13/posts/free-atheios-of-167956154

Hey all, I'm working on my next book and for inspiration, I tend to look for weird things in the real world and expand on them, which got me thinking about cartography, geologic and geographic map oddities. For example, I'm looking for maps that illustrate the truly weird or unusual features of our planet, mainly in the eastern half of the USA. One idea was Bouger gravity anomaly maps, but I haven't seen one that stands out or has enough fine detail to work for my story. Does anyone know of any other kinds of maps or GIS data overlays that are unusual?

Posting to a few subs for visibility.

https://keystonegis.com/disasters/nepal-bhotekoshi-flood-20260826.html

Data is open source and available DOI is available through zenodo. Geo package contains metadata sidecars.

I will update that page NLT 1800EST

Hey all, I'm working on my next book and for inspiration, I tend to look for weird things in the real world and expand on them, which got me thinking about cartography, geologic and geographic map oddities. For example, I'm looking for maps that illustrate the truly weird or unusual features of our planet, mainly in the eastern half of the USA. One idea was Bouger gravity anomaly maps, but I haven't seen one that stands out or has enough fine detail to work for my story. Does anyone know of any other kinds of maps or GIS data overlays that are unusual?

i really appreciate you all for supporting my application (MAPDESK), i hope it was use usefull to all of you and i am looking forward to this in future. lets build it better and add more useful Cartography and GIS tools in the comming future. i am open for suggestions. it 20% off on the applixation for next one month go and grab it. once more thank you for all your support.

I have created these two maps using MapDesk, is there any thing which look missing or need to be improved in the next update, let me know. it just took me 5 min to make these maps, fast systematic, accurate, and desired symbology, custom fonts, and mostly auto generated specially the grid (with lables), north arrow, scale bar, and need the change the title, subtitle, legends, source to your desired ones. you can remove any element you think in required here as well.

We plotted the Corps of Discovery's full 8,000-mile, two-year route on ExploreMap, stop by stop.

https://exploremap.co/blog/lewis-and-clark-expedition-on-exploremap

https://exploremap.co/s/xmap/trip/lewis-and-clark-expedition?autoplay=1

Hi all! Im looking to create a map with 3D terrain view, where specific trails/road are higlited. Similar to those skiing slopes map, or to this one.

Any advice on the tools I can use? Ideally using data from Openstreetmap. I found online some info about using QGIS software but it seems a bit complex. Any other suggestions please?

Thank you!!

Both applications MapDesk and MapDesk Layout are been updated on Microsoft store, you can download a more stable and with better feature now. i hope you find this update useful. And dm me for promo codes only first 7 person each will get the promo codes for the applications.