Fans build Game of Thrones world on Google Maps

GETTING a little lost in the world of Game of Thrones? Now, thanks to fans and Google Maps, you can follow each character’s journey.

NOW there is no excuse to feel lost while watching Game of Thrones, with Google Maps technology used to create an online interactive map.

The map started life in 2012, when fan serMountainGoat, took the worlds created by George R.R. Martin and turned them into a map.

Now that map has been given the Google Maps API treatment at http://quartermaester.info/, with a slider you can set on which book or episode on Foxtel’s showcase channel you’re up to so that you don’t get spoilers along with your lesson in fantasy geography.

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The legend to the map has many of the major characters (no, not all the characters — nobody has time for that). You click on a character’s name and see their journey from the start of the books or TV series to now, or at least until their untimely (or timely) end.

The best example of how a character gets around in Game of Thrones is to click on the white box next to the name Arya Stark.

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Just make sure, if you haven’t read the books, that you click on episodes rather than chapters first or otherwise you’ll accidentally see that poor young Arya and her sword Needle still have a fair journey ahead of them. Or not — let’s not have any spoilers here.

When the map was created, serMountainGoat says he showed it to George R.R. Martin himself, who took time out of his slow grind of book writing to cast his eye over it.

“This is a very handsome map. And based on the information you have, it’s quite good”, is apparently what George said.

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It’s no “Winter is coming” of “A Lannister always pays his debts” in terms of catchy phrases, but it’s something.

In terms of a melding of pop culture and tech smarts, the Google Map site is a cool bit of geekdom.

Now, if someone could only come up with an automatic memory prompter so we don’t all sit there on Monday night saying “so, who’s that guy again?” the world of Westeros would be a better place.

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