[Dragaera] Geography: The Map of Dragaera, Release 2

[David Dyer-Bennet]

On 2011-06-04 17:47, Bryan Newell wrote:
> A new release of my Map of Dragaera project is now available.
>
> You can find it at http://bryann.net/dragaera/map/.
>
> It's been seven years (!) since the last release, and quite a bit has
> changed.  In addition to a number of new novels being published (/Sethra
> Lavode/, /Dzur/, /Jhegaala/, /Iorich/, and /Tiassa/), Steven Brust agreed to
> answer a few questions I had about the geography of Dragaera. During the
> course of that conversation, he volunteered information that has yet to make
> an appearance in any of his published works. I used this information with
> the implied stipulation that he might change his mind in a future work.

Congrats on the new release!

> Someone (I think it was DDB, but I've been unable to confirm that) suggested
> I document my reasoning. Having to justify every decision I made made me
> realize just how much guesswork was involved in the first release (and how
> much guesswork /is/ required). The new release reflects that. At the top of
> the main page is a link to a document that explains why my map of Dragaera
> looks the way it does, and should make it clear where I guessed and why.
> Even if you don't care about my reasoning, this document may prove useful to
> you as a compendium of everything I think I know about Dragaera.

It might well have been me; it's the sort of nasty high-effort thing I 
think of and suggest that others do :-) .  I know, when I'm doing 
complicated analysis myself, that I tend sometimes to lose track after a 
while of how I reached earlier conclusions, which means I have to 
recreate the work if I need to explain or check my conclusions.

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