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It looks sweet that Distortion is inevitable unless you reproject your map. I'm not an expert in projections though...and anyway, at the end of the day, you just want to minimise your distortion. But you might have a rationale for who drew the map and what projections they would have access to to.

monks

Hi Singalen, Yes, I think we can help you. I can give you the dem at 10,000 pixels resolution and the shp files. Let me know if that would help.

monks

Hi, may I also ask for a simple shapefile for a large-scale Middle Earth, or, maybe, whole Arda?
I'm leading a study project where I'm teaching pre-graduate school students programming and we're trying to create a GIS-like wiki and visualizer. We are http://higepedia.org (the site is in Russian).
Middle Earth would help to involve my students better.
One of our nearest plans is to draw animated maps, so we might draw an animation of Arda changes during its ages too
Thank you a lot.

Cant wait to see it whole in OT ! .... also, whyte that continental placing - eclyptation should be great, and i wonder, how the magnetic and rotational axes should be ...

Here's our Globe...

looks nice but is probably quite incorrect from a geographer's point. The Harad looks quite out of shape- I wonder what we did wrong...


http://www.flickr.com/photos/45380944@N05/sets/72157642281483663/

Yes... if those would be the proportions of Middle-Earth it would be a REALLY HUGE continent...

Now one could understand why  Aragorn thought in "the far countries of Rhun and Harad (...) the stars are strange" since the continent reaches far out into the southern and eastern hemisphere...

I had to add all those Mountains because they were part of the original maps Iǜe used... however I think most of them would have been not higher or maybe even smaller than the Evendim Hills.The Orocarni, Ered Engrim, Hithaeglir and Ered Nimrais would be the highest mountain ranges... perhaps with the remnants of the Southern Grey Mountains, Yellow Mountains and Mountains of the wind.Iḿ not sure about the Ered Laranor and Ered Harmal...  The ICE Books state that the Ered Laranor were parts of the eastern Yellow Mountains bent westwards after the great cataclysm and the Ered Harmal formed somehow by the fall of the great Lamp Ringil...  however looking at Tolkien's sketches to me it would seem more likely that the western Arm of the Ered Harmal was a remnant of his southern grey Mountains and it's eastern reaches possibly related to the Highlands on the Isle of Almaren. The Ered Harmal also could rather be a remnant of the Mountains of the Wind, given that Tolkien stated Men awoke in mesopotamia, which would place them and Hildorien more to the center of the continent, roughly the equivalent of the Chy-Lands.
 

I've asked a friend of mine to help me with a globe, but that would be a more simplified map  not that detailed. We'll see...

Each pixel is 4x4 blocks in Minecraft. Total area of the map is 40960 x 40960.

EDIT: Feth. I see I missed another piece in the bottom right corner. I'll get it later. Lol.

EDIT: Fixed. Zipped the Minecraft files are 5.6 GB. Unzipped they take up 25 GB.

Now to work!

1) 1st pass topo - COMPLETED

2) 1st pass forests/rivers/lakes

3) 1st pass mountains

4) biomes!

Now for #2....

Woo hoo! Got it all exported and converted finally.

Found I had mis-converted x7 y2 though, so redoing that.

Must...sleep....

 ... but you just need to hook up a few hundred thousand field experts from universities for that.     

K. Got the topo's and flipped the y's. Awesome!

That's pretty much got all of the other stuff combined into one set of tiles. Rivers, forests, swamps, lakes, roads. It's definitely nice for pinpointing where towns and cities and places like the entrance to Moria are though!

Although it *is* nice to have things broken out into their own tiles for sure.

I can't thank you enough. You guys are super.