mars maps

[thejammedgatling]

hello to all...

It's my first post on this site! I've been reading your stuff with interest over the last few months. My partner in crime Rabbitz has posted our pics of our huge battle above Mars where my space squid (Astral Architeuthis) crushed his Prussian fleet (though at no little cost). The map was not actually from Google mars but from the Nasa site. The link is below and is a great source of ideas for terrain builders out there. As we were playing 1/1200 aeronef having a flat surface was important so I printed out one of the larger images on a medium format printer. The final image is in 4 sections and measures 6' x 4'.

Here's the link:
http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/gallery/canyons/images/5112_FlythroughNadirView.jpg&imgrefurl=http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/gallery/canyons/5112_FlythroughNadirView.html&h=1080&w=1920&sz=1243&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=Fanmi9JcqlyKIM:&tbnh=84&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmars%2Bcanyons%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den

Let me know if it doesn't work for you.

I'll try and post some pics of the entire Mars fleet soon.

Cheers

[Hammers]

Hello gatling,

nice first post.

[Operator5]

Anyone whose first post is as useful as yours, is aces in my book. Welcome aboard! 

[Bullshott]

Welcome to the forum.

I have already posted to Rabbitz' AAR, but will say again thay I love your concept for this game. The maps just add to the originality of the project. I'm looking forward to seeing how this project develops.

[Red Orc]

I'm sorry for the vast threadomancy, though to be honest this deserves not to be just forgotten, but I've been searching for maps of Mars and in particular a website that had both old and new maps. I'm sure I had a link to it once upon a time, but suspect I lost in a hard-drive meltdown.

I haven't been able to find it since but what I have found is this: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/04/channelling-martian-maps.html - which is a blog about the history of mapping Mars. It contains some of the same maps, and some of you might not have seen it, so that seems like a good enough reason to resurect this thread on Mars maps.


EDIT: apparently I can't spell 'thread'.

[Haarken]

That second map would probably make a great campaign map if only it was a little bigger. Still absolutely fantastic find and worthy of such a resurrection.

[Red Orc]

Yup, that 1890 map is one of the ones I was looking for. 1890 is a fairly significant VSF year as far as I'm concerned, it's when the Atlantis campaign is set. Knowing it's by Giovanni Schiaparelli will presumably make it easier to hunt out a larger image on the web if there is one...

On the 'other' website that is now lost in the aether, I'm pretty sure that I remember that map, a modern map, and a composite of the two were all together, so you could use the Victorian ideas about Martian geography (Martography? Areography?) in the context of the actual topography.

[Bullshott]

I do like the 1890 map. I think a small version of it may have to appear on one of my models for our current Mars project 

[Red Orc]

I found the Mars maps site that I was referring to above: http://15mmvsf.bagofmice.com/mars/mars.html

I also found an old thread about the possibility of a BoB-Pulp campaign on Mars... in other words, a kind of projection into the 1920s of the Victorian-era Conquest of Mars.

I still think it's a great idea, with or without Beyonce's bottom in it.