{"id":1840588,"date":"2025-05-13T08:49:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1840588"},"modified":"2025-05-13T08:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:49:30","slug":"a-hand-drawn-map-of-the-british-isles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/05\/a-hand-drawn-map-of-the-british-isles\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hand-drawn Map of the British Isles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mark Esper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mark Esper<\/a> spent one and a half years drawing a map of Great Britain, Ireland and the dependencies (Isle of Man, Channel Islands). He describes how he did it in this blog post<\/a>. \u201cIn its finished form, this map contains over 280 cities, as well as a countless number of castles, ruins, and other buildings scattered over the map.\u00a0 All 21 National Parks are labeled, 12 different languages are present: English,\u00a0Guern\u00e9siais, J\u00e8rriais, French, Auregnais, Serquiais, Cornish, Manx, Irish Gaelic, Welsh, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic, and all major bodies of water are labeled.\u201d He\u2019s selling it as a 24\u00d736-inch print<\/a>. \u201cIn the future, I plan on continuing to draw countries, states, continents and other regions of the world in a similar level of detail.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Esper spent one and a half years drawing a map of Great Britain, Ireland and the dependencies (Isle of Man, Channel Islands). 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