This week*the new Start Wars movie hits movie theatres around the world. Millions of geeks, including me, were waiting for that moment for the last decade. Will it be a great*movie or just a short journey to back to our childhood? We’ll learn soon.*But Star Wars is not all about the*battle of light and dark side of the Force.*It is also about maps… Maps of the Galaxy.
Other the last 2 decades we’ve seen several maps of the galaxy far, far away. Some of the good, some them even better. Today we’re bring the best of these maps to you in the chronological order.
1998
The first map of the whole galaxy officially published with the release of Star Wars digital encyclopaedia*Behind the Magic back in 1998
1999
The second map was a part*of Vector Prime novel published 1999. The map has been than reused in*2000s Balance Point novel.
2001
In 2001 the*Star Wars Gamer*magazine got interested in the topic and published its own Galaxy map.
2002
In 2002 The Official Star Wars Fact File has been published with the following map.
2005
The*Star Wars New Essential Guide to Chronology*contained a map updated for the Episode 3
2006
Map of the Star Wars Galaxy compiled by “Modi” back in 2006
2007
In 2007 W. R. van Hage independently published The Star Wars Map Of The Galaxy.
2009
2009 brought a new cool map in the Start War – The Essential*Atlas.
2013
On the first web interactive maps of the Galaxy*based on CartoDB engine.
2015
Interactive map of the Galaxy*which we’ve covered in Geoawesomeness in October 2015.
source: Tor, StarWars.com
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Other the last 2 decades we’ve seen several maps of the galaxy far, far away. Some of the good, some them even better. Today we’re bring the best of these maps to you in the chronological order.
1998
The first map of the whole galaxy officially published with the release of Star Wars digital encyclopaedia*Behind the Magic back in 1998
1999
The second map was a part*of Vector Prime novel published 1999. The map has been than reused in*2000s Balance Point novel.
2001
In 2001 the*Star Wars Gamer*magazine got interested in the topic and published its own Galaxy map.
2002
In 2002 The Official Star Wars Fact File has been published with the following map.
2005
The*Star Wars New Essential Guide to Chronology*contained a map updated for the Episode 3
2006
Map of the Star Wars Galaxy compiled by “Modi” back in 2006
2007
In 2007 W. R. van Hage independently published The Star Wars Map Of The Galaxy.
2009
2009 brought a new cool map in the Start War – The Essential*Atlas.
2013
On the first web interactive maps of the Galaxy*based on CartoDB engine.
2015
Interactive map of the Galaxy*which we’ve covered in Geoawesomeness in October 2015.
source: Tor, StarWars.com
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