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  • First found out about Jerry’s Map over 10 years ago thanks to this video on Vimeo and it really stuck with me. Glad to see the project continue. Also I miss finding these smaller documentaries on the site, so many neat subjects covered before Youtube became the home of all things video.

    https://vimeo.com/13596774

    by DannyPage
  • The revision process makes it look like a satellite image, painstakingly updated by a single satellite, which can only cover so much per pass.

    I have this recurring dream of a city - it's a mix of various places I've been to and it's surprisingly consistent. It bears the closest resemblance to Riga, Latvia - only thing is I've never been there. Funny how that works.

    by Tade0
  • In grade school I kept meticulous, tedious logbooks of ships entering and leaving an imaginary port for tax purposes.
    by fapjacks
  • > The entire process is driven by instructions on a card drawn from a special deck created by the artist.

    I like this. I like that his system pushes the creative process forward without relinquishing the actual creative part of it (making the map tile).

    by wxw
  • I know Jerry Map (I hope that someday will be a exposition in Spain) because I love it, I love the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art. The people who maybe mad and they built a world with own rules.

    I remember the book of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress or Cataclysm DDA .

    And weird games as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic .

    by mdtrooper
  • I used to do things like this when I was a kid (less extreme, never more than a single sheet of paper), where I would create some natural features: a lake shore or river, maybe a freeway or two or a railroad and then start platting out a subdivision in the open spaces. It was a delightfully meditative practice and maybe I should start doing it again.
    by dhosek
  • There's a good People Make Games video about this from a few days ago

    https://youtu.be/Is8N7B9b0GQ

    by archermarks
  • You guys are welcome: https://marcmajcher.github.io/jerrysmap/
    by Fraterkes

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