Talk:Fantasy cartography

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Definition and "In popular culture"

By my reading, one of four examples actually meets the definition given by the article. Either the definition's wrong, or the examples are. 137.195.54.217 (talk) 16:09, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. the section should be changed.142.22.115.48 (talk) 19:24, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Palestine archipelago

The “Palestine archipelago” map no longer shows up at Strange Maps; here is a good instance of it. —Tamfang (talk) 00:52, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Attribution

Text and references copied from Fantasy map to List of fictional counties, See former article's history for a list of contributors. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:09, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Article Move (Title Change)

I changed the article title from Fantasy map to Fantasy cartography to better reflect the recent broadening of the article's scope. --Twomatters (talk) 07:30, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Cartography" makes it sound like an academic field concerned with map projections, which is not really the case. AnonMoos (talk) 11:15, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi AnonMoos, Thanks for the thoughts.

The Oxford dictionary defines ‘cartography’ as “the science or practice of drawing maps.” This to me sounds like cartography encompasses (pardon the pun) both academic and non-academic facets.

Also if you check out the general cartography article, that also includes plenty of non-academic elements.

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. There are several academic journals of geography, cartography and cartographic information that have published articles on the topic. I have recently cited several of them in the article.

These are some of my reasons I’m still satisfied with the updated title. I’m definitely open to being convinced it’s not right, I’m just not there yet!

Happy to keep talking about this. Twomatters (talk) 13:38, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also AnonMoos, In the cartography lead section, it explains that only 1 of the 5 fundamental objectives of traditional cartography is concerned with map projections. Twomatters (talk) 13:42, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Short Description

Here's a section for suggestions about the short description. Short description helper --Twomatters (talk) 00:50, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]