Game of Thrones fans create an interactive map of Westeros... via Google Maps
Game of Thrones is now on its fourth season, with five and six in the offing; the books the show is based on meanwhile are heading towards their seventh edition. And with the ever expanding and more detailed fantasy world it depicts, it helps to have a map to visualise where exactly the latest bout of bloodshed is going down.
In 2012 one fan, serMountainGoat, took it upon themselves to create their own map of the A Song of Ice and Fire series – and won praise from the books' writer George R.R. Martin, who said: "This is a very handsome map. And based on the information you have, it's quite good."
Now on the website quartermaester.info, the map has been blended with the Google Maps API to create an interactive version, where you can follow the routes that the various characters take throughout the saga. A little like the infamous map that showed the areas of London that different gangs operated in, you can see where the different constituencies of Westeros begin and end, as well as where each of the noblemen and women live – each has a clickthrough link to the Wiki of Ice and Fire database for more information.
Best of all, a slider allows you to show information only as far as the chapter or episode you've reached, meaning that the map can remain blissfully spoiler free. It joins other Game of Thrones mapping projects outlined on the Google Map Mania blog, from the general to the specific, including one that plots the journey of Arya Stark.
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/apr/15/game-of-thrones-interactive-map-google
Go to the map here:
http://quartermaester.info/
Playing with the sliders to adjust the 'spoiler level' and/or go to specific episodes of the TV show or chapters of the book are very cool. It will be even cooler when you can zoom in to street level 
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Thank you, Joe.
escapism is quite needed these days, it seems, and GOT is a cool place to play in.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Book-Review---The-Dwarf-by-Par-Lagerkvist&id=3060583
Dinklage would be perfect in the title role.
It's a hell of a book, and will make an unforgettable film, if done well.
I predict, when (not "if"
it is made....Best Picture winner.
If it turns out to be true, it will be freakin awesome