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Imagine your plane makes an emergency landing in one of these 4 countries, and you need to live there for 2 weeks before you’re evacuated.

https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL

Wikimedia Commons File: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Subdivision_map_of_inaturalist_observations_of_Spider_families_Salticidae_(Jumping_spiders),_Theraphosidae_(Tarantulas),_and_Thomisidae_(Crab_Spiders)_in_Central_Africa.png,Theraphosidae(Tarantulas),and_Thomisidae(Crab_Spiders)_in_Central_Africa.png)

Source: iNaturalist website

A globe with all 195* countries mapped in such a way to occupy identical areas of 2.62 million km²

*193 member states of the United Nations and its 2 non-member observer states

Click here to access the Open Westeros project

So, I started this project 10 days ago by building a 3D King's Landing model in GQIS. Then I had the idea of building the world with the correct measurements of the planet based on the lore and fan calculations. Layer upon layer and now I have a full interactive Known World from the books of George R. R. Martin made into an open source community-built project.

I have built a bunch of stuff, like: - Atmospherics - Land textures - Height maps (baking I believe is the term of the process) - Labeling reveal algorithms (so it shows labels bases on relevance and altitude) - Roads and river lines - 3D models (currently only The Wall, Winterfell and King's Landing)

One of the aspects I'd like to expand more would be land formations. I was thinking of procedurally populate the world with hills, mountains and so on, but I still don't know what questions I should be asking to achieve this. I baked an early version of it using only data from images fans have created, but apart from that nothing like the fancy 3D mountains I've seen only that would be really cool to have.

Another one that I still haven't tackled would be to generate the rivers and bodies of water, to make them look more realistic than they are now (currently only likes from an SVG).

I'd like for the people here to just take a look, on the site and the code, and give some feedback on it.

And please, if you got interested in the project, don't hesitate in contacting me and contributing to it in the GitHub repo. The project is open source, built by a fan for fans.

Thank you for reading and taking a look!

Hotspots: NASA FIRMS (VIIRS, NOAA-20), cleaned of gas flares, factories, offshore and sun-glint detections.
Singapore air: NEA via data.gov.sg.
The air's path: traced back through NOAA GFS winds by our own particle model.
Base imagery: NASA GIBS. Smoke plume: Contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information.
Concessions: Trase, and Global Forest Watch / Ministry of Forestry.

The interactive map replays every day since 1 August: https://sea-haze.teyou.dev/

(si les lombards n'avaient pas été italie)

https://media.rabobank.com/asset/d65c7631-9d44-44d1-bf87-f81ed7f26a9e/RaboResearch-World-Dairy-Map-2026.pdf

https://x.com/BeshearStan/status/2114031285601534156?s=20

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_congressional_districts#Non-voting_delegations