Cool idea - map of locations covered by products

[ffilz]

With various things coming out, I've been thinking it would be really cool to have a map that showed you what areas are covered by which products through the history of Gloranthan publication. Regional products might be a bit tricky but more site based could easily be a marker. Clicking on the marker or region boundary could pop up details about the product and where to find it.

Sort of a visual "Meints Index to Glorantha"...

Frank

[Joerg]

I wouldn't know how to provide this on an interactive map, to be honest. You'll probably want to have post-canonical material referenced, too, like the Mongoose products, or the HW/HQ1 era material dealing with the west in a very different language (churches, knights...) now deprecated.

My old Index to Glorantha publications had long lists of items referring to a region. Much of the info referenced there was expanded in the Guide, which lacks such internal cross-references.

The Glorantha Wikia has purged any post-canonical info, deleting quite a bit of the more inclusive early work while attempting valiantly yet futilely to use the categories provided by that platform as a hierarchical access to the data.

One of the most inclusive projects, the Lokarnos.com website, was lost to the world as it was discontinued in the face  around the time of a fan policy document that alienated quite a few fan publishing websites without actually aiming to do so. Plenty of private sites were lost, too. Others just weren't continued as providers folded or private domains were left fallow.

The posts on google plus were salvaged, but the Tapatalk platform hosting these is at best an archive and at worst a spambot. Facebook is about as ephemeral.

The current Chaosium has done its best to make at least the old official material accessible to everybody. The early two decades of online discussion on public mailing lists or yahoogroups are available under glorantha.steff.in.

 

Material outside of Dragon Pass and Prax is rare for canonical sources other than the Guide and obscure references to deities and cults.

Dagori Inkarth has seen some love in Troll Pak.

Balazar and the Elder Wilds have one publication: Griffin Mountain

Dorastor has one sourcebook (RQ3: Dorastor, Land of Doom) and the narrative in Cults of Terror.

Maniria has Blood over Gold, under the older paradigms for the West.

The oceans have Men of the Sea, again with older paradigms.

 

 

 

Edited April 16, 2020 by Joerg

[Nick Brooke]

8 hours ago, Joerg said:

One of the most inclusive projects, the Lokarnos.com website, was lost to the world as it was discontinued in the face of a fan policy document that alienated quite a few fan publishing websites without actually aiming to do so.

That's not what happened.

Cheers, Nick

[David Scott]

14 hours ago, Joerg said:

Much of the info referenced there was expanded in the Guide, which lacks such internal cross-references.

You can add your own, using a PDF Reader and link to external files (I do).

17 hours ago, ffilz said:

Sort of a visual "Meints Index to Glorantha"...

It would be possible on http://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com, a map with links to the appropriate product pages or a sub-product page listing all the locations within. However that's well beyond my work load. I'm still adding products.

14 hours ago, Joerg said:

The posts on google plus were salvaged,

The posts are also on http://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com, missing links are still being added.

https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/?s=Google%2B or just use Google+ with your other search terms.

14 hours ago, Joerg said:

but the Tapatalk platform hosting these is at best an archive and at worst a spambot.

I'm not sure what you mean by spambot. If you are receiving spam from Tapatalk please flag it. Tapatalk have robust systems for dealing with it and have been very helpful with the archive.

[Joerg]

27 minutes ago, David Scott said:

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but the Tapatalk platform hosting these is at best an archive and at worst a spambot.

I'm not sure what you mean by spambot. If you are receiving spam from Tapatalk please flag it. Tapatalk have robust systems for dealing with it and have been very helpful with the archive.

The platform itself inundates you with "product news" etc., or at least did when I last connected to it.

[David Scott]

35 minutes ago, Joerg said:

The platform itself inundates you with "product news" etc., or at least did when I last connected to it.

Tapatalk supports itself through a subscription model, for free accounts you get advertising - much like G+ did. Consider using an adblocker or subscribing.