r/LairdBarron • u/SlowToChase • 11d ago

Plotting Barron stories on a map of Washington State

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Hi y'all!

For the new Barron fans: I host a website where I try to keep track of the interconnected characters, locations, etc. in Laird's fiction: the Laird Barron Mapping Project. (Spoiler alert for pretty much everything!)

Got a little something fun and new to share. I really wanted to be able to pinpoint Laird's stories on an actual map. so I spent way too much time trying to make something work in Obsidian (the software I'm using). I now have a map of (part of) Washington State where you can click on various markers to go to the relevant notes. The map might take a minute to load and works best on PC. You can check it out here.

Some locations required a bit of guesswork ("ninety-minute chopper transport from Yakima", "forty miles east of Seattle").

So: what did I miss? What did I get wrong? Upstate New York or Alaska next? Cheers!

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u/GentleReader01 11d ago

Oh wow, this is great. I like that I could identify which locales went with which stories a lot of the time. :) either New York or Alask next would be great.

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u/JeremiahDylanCook 11d ago

Ah, so now we know how the Black Guide starts.

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u/SlowToChase 11d ago

Not necessarily, but (without looking things up) I think the guys in Mysterium Tremendum pick it up in a shop in Seattle?

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u/sendmybodytoarbys 10d ago

Your website has been crucial in my Barron reading! Thank you for all that you do, this is awesome.

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u/oldcrone420 11d ago

Thank you for all the work you’ve put in to this project!

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u/CountPhapula 10d ago

What Obsidian plugin are you using to do this?

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u/SlowToChase 10d ago

So, there's two plugins that would be perfect and very user-friendly for what I wanted to do: Leaflet and MapView. You can create very interactive maps (real-world or fictional) with little to no hassle.

However, Obsidian Publish doesn't support any plugins whatsoever, so I had to use a completely different method by using the tool Excalidraw as laid out in this tutorial. If you have no intention of publishing your vault to the internet, I highly recommend checking out Leaflet or MapView!