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Fantasy cartography, fictional map-making, or geofiction is a type of map design that visually presents an imaginary world or concept, or represents a real-world geography in a fantastic style. [1] Fantasy cartography usually manifests from worldbuilding and often corresponds to narratives within the fantasy and science fiction genres.
OpenGeofiction (abbreviated OGF) is an online collaborative mapping project focused on fantasy cartography and worldbuilding of a world analogous to Earth. It uses OpenStreetMap software and processes in a separate environment, providing an outlet for artistic expression that avoids interfering with OpenStreetMap's mapping of the real world and potentially mitigates the risk of vandalism there.
Karen Lea Wynn Fonstad (April 18, 1945 – March 11, 2005) was an American cartographer and academic who designed several atlases of fictional worlds, including her 1981 The Atlas of Middle-earth about J. R. R. Tolkien's creations.
Both maps locations described in fiction and stand-alone works of imaginary cartography belong in this category. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
J. R. R. Tolkien's design for his son Christopher's contour map on graph paper with handwritten annotations, of parts of Gondor and Mordor and the route taken by the Hobbits with the One Ring, and dates along that route, for an enlarged map in The Return of the King [5] Detail of finished contour map by Christopher Tolkien, drawn from his father's graph paper design.
In the left-hand corner, the name Orontius Fineus is inscribed, which is Latinized for Oronce Finé, a French mathematician and cartographer who died in 1555. Because Fool's Cap was published so long after Finé's death, the inscription is not thought to represent him as the artist but rather the subject of the work's ridicule.
Based on the definition and the general cartography wiki page, the inclusion of the word “cartography” in the title seems to me to fit the scope of the article as it currently is. I would also argue that the topic of fantasy maps and map-making has become substantially more academic in the last 20 years.
Elisabeth Barrington reviewed The Fantasy Cartographer's Field Book in The Space Gamer No. 31. [1] Barrington commented "If there are any avid gamers who don't need this book, I would like to meet them. [...] The publishers even suggest using these pages for submitting your designs for publication.