I do wonder how I should be organising the list, though. Arranged by geographical region and scale would perhaps be the most useful, but the Geographical Mapping forum already handles that. And in the context of the Atlas of Mystara, the sources are probably better arranged in another way.
With official sources I split them into sub-groups and then ordered then by date. Perhaps a similar convention could be applied to unofficial maps... for example splitting them by author and then date (although the date is not always known, nor does it always remain constant for fan-made maps), or author and then alphabetically (although that raises problems when maps have to be added, and end up out of order at the end of the list).
Does anyone have any good ideas for how to do this? What do you think about the idea of splitting the maps first according to their cartographer? I quite like how this would work out, giving us a separate section (and a separate thread) for each Mystaran cartographer presenting their work mapping our favourite world.
I think that in the end I will have to accept some form of entropy creeping into these lists, because unlike official maps, unofficial maps are still being made and edited. So whatever system we choose it will end up having stuff tacked on to the end before long.
One other question: for the official sources, I gave each individual source its own post. This allows direct linking/attribution to that source, which is really pretty cool - if you want to check back on the sources for a map, you just click and can see them right away, along with all the other maps that came in that product, and scroll up and down to see the rest of the product line. For unofficial maps, in many cases it may be possible to put them into logical groups and post them together (for example Geoff's Davania maps), but in other cases the maps will stand alone in their own post. This is good because it allows direct linking, and eventually each map can have other information as well as just a link to the map itself (for example linking to the map's key). On the other hand there could be benefits to having one map per post, too. But it makes it quite a bit more work to make a new post each time.
I have already collected a lot of maps, and Shawn's excellent Mystaran Maps page is a great help too. So I want to start getting this list done as soon as possible.
Please let me know what you think. Any feedback at all will be greatly appreciated.
