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I've finally mapped out the Mars I use for my own art projects, which combines the various versions of Mars seen in Public Domain fiction. This site will probably scale it down so much it'll become completely unreadable. There's a slightly better version here: www.flickr.com/photos/13929567…

First off, I've increased the size of the planet by 3.5 times. Fictional Earth will be similarly scaled up when I finally do that map.

Secondly, instead of putting the 19th century maps on top of each other, which would result in overlapping locations, I put them side by side. This means a Mars with four distinct areas: Oceanic Mars (based on a map by Camille Flammarion), Sea/Canal Mars (based on a map by Giovanni Schiaparelli), desert-like Mars covered in canals (based on a map by Percival Lowell) and finally a small section based on Real Mars.

I've tried to include all the countries, cities and major locations from the Public Domain, but it's possible I forgot a few. I took a bit of creative license with a few locations, such as the Martial Territory (the book Across the Zodiac doesn't mention canals at all and I put it in an area filled with them), just to make things work with each other. I hope this doesn't offend any purists out there.

EDIT: of course, this will be subject to edits as "new" information comes in.

SECOND EDIT: Silly me, I forgot Ptarth on this version. I'll probably be updating this image all day.

Description
I've finally mapped out the Mars I use for my own art projects, which combines the various versions of Mars seen in Public Domain fiction. This site will probably scale it down so much it'll become completely unreadable. There's a slightly better version here: www.flickr.com/photos/13929567…

First off, I've increased the size of the planet by 3.5 times. Fictional Earth will be similarly scaled up when I finally do that map.

Secondly, instead of putting the 19th century maps on top of each other, which would result in overlapping locations, I put them side by side. This means a Mars with four distinct areas: Oceanic Mars (based on a map by Camille Flammarion), Sea/Canal Mars (based on a map by Giovanni Schiaparelli), desert-like Mars covered in canals (based on a map by Percival Lowell) and finally a small section based on Real Mars.

I've tried to include all the countries, cities and major locations from the Public Domain, but it's possible I forgot a few. I took a bit of creative license with a few locations, such as the Martial Territory (the book Across the Zodiac doesn't mention canals at all and I put it in an area filled with them), just to make things work with each other. I hope this doesn't offend any purists out there.

EDIT: of course, this will be subject to edits as "new" information comes in.

SECOND EDIT: Silly me, I forgot Ptarth on this version. I'll probably be updating this image all day.