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John Nelson
Personal blog · adventuresinmapping.comdesignscience
John Nelson writes Adventures In Mapping, a personal blog at adventuresinmapping.com about design and science. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Middle Earth Map Style”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for its mapping content. One commenter cites its Middle-earth style map post as an example of raster images used as textures in web vector maps. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Maps and stuff. Fun things.
Most-linked posts?
- Middle Earth Map Style2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-11
What Hacker News says?
Not a question about the mesh generator, but if I want to create a (leaflet or mapbox) map that uses raster images as textures in vector maps, where do I start? Similar to the Middle earth style map, but for the web: https://adventuresinmapping.com/2018/09/10/middle-earth-map-...
Comment linking /2018/09/10/middle-earth-map-style/
on “Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator”Submitted Middle Earth Map Style as a story · 193 points
HN discussionSubmitted Old Lights and New Lights – Newly Illuminated Areas in South Asia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Old Lights and New Lights – Newly Illuminated Areas in South Asia as a story · 1 points
HN discussion