Wittenberg

We have cool Google Map overlays and a lot of people who have been interested in cantons right down to the ground, but there's no good map anyone could print.  We should change that and get together a high-quality image of our national territory, with overseas possessions inset, and make it beautiful and well-marked with specific cultural landmarks.  It would be something else to put up at our embassies.

A good map does something that no amount of text can do -- it makes a place feel like a place. Right now, if you want to see Greater Talossan Area geography, you're pulling up a Google Maps overlay on your phone and zooming around. That's fine for utility, but it doesn't hang on a wall. It doesn't make someone say "wait, what is this?" when they see it framed at an embassy or pinned up in someone's apartment. We need a proper cartographic product -- something with the provinces clearly delineated, key landmarks labeled, the overseas possessions inset in the corner, maybe even some Talossan-language labels for the major features. Something that looks like it belongs in an atlas, because Talossa belongs in an atlas.

And this is another one of those projects where the investment pays off in different ways.  The map goes on the embassy wall. It goes in a press kit. It goes on talossa.com as a downloadable PDF. It's one more piece of real, tangible Talossan material culture -- something you can hold in your hands that says "this is a real country with real geography and people who care enough to make beautiful things about it." We've got citizens who have poured years of love into the canton-level detail of this territory. Let's turn that love into something everyone can see!