A Game of Thrones Distance Calculator

The Game of Thrones Distance Calculator can tell you the distance between any two points in Westeros. This allows you to work out how far all the different characters in George R. R. Martin's classic epic have traveled throughout the various episodes and seasons.

The map was created by Mark Alicz based on clues gleamed from George R. R. Martin's novels. Jon Snow's closest friend, Samwell Tarly, tells us in 'A Storm of Swords' that the Wall is "a hundred leagues long." Martin himself tells us that 'a league is three miles'. Therefore the Wall is three hundred miles long. Mark Alicz can therefore use the length of the wall to calculate all the distances between different points on a map of Westeros.

If you click twice on the Game of Thrones Distance Calculator an information window will open revealing the distance between the two points. So, for example, the well trodden journey between Winterfell and King's Landing is 1645.29 miles as the dragon flies.

According to Google Maps this walking route from Paris to Moscow is 1,718 miles (so slightly longer than the journey between Winterfell and King's Landing). Google says this walk would take 563 hours. So if you walked 10 hours a day it would take you 56 days to complete the journey. When Robert Baratheon, the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, arrives in Winterfell his wife, Cerci, complains "We’ve been riding for months now, my love. Surely the dead can wait". Obviously the king traveled with a large, slow moving caravan and presumably spent many leisurely hours dining along the way. I can well believe it would take the king and his caravan a few months to travel 1,645 miles along the Kingsroad (BTW the journey on from Winterfell to Castle Black at the Wall is 2,199 miles long - so the Kingsroad itself is at least 3,800 miles long).

Of course the Game of Thrones Distance Calculator relies on the accuracy of the Westeros map. We have no way of knowing how accurate the map is. We might also do well to heed the words of George R. R. Martin when he said,

"I have deliberately tried to be vague about such things, so I don't have obsessive fans with rulers measuring distances on the map and telling me Ned couldn't get from X to Y in the time I say he did.

However, if you really must know, you can figure out the distances for yourself. The Wall is a hundred leagues long. A league is three miles. Go from there.

But if you turn up any mistakes in travel times by using that measure, let it be your secret".

A Geography of Thrones Game

How well do you know A Game of Thrones?

You might be able to tell the difference between a White Walker and a Wildling but can you point to where the Wildling's most permanent settlement is on a map of Westeros? A new interactive map game from Carto will test how well you know the geography of Westeros and Essos?

Let's put your Ice & Fire knowledge to the test with the Geom of Thrones game. In this Game of Thrones map trivia game you need to identify locations on an unlabeled map of Westeros and Essos. For example you might be asked to identify the city who's chief export are bedslaves trained in 'The Way of Seven Sighs.' All you need to do is click on the location of the city on the interactive map.

Get a question right and you are awarded 100 points and you progress to the next question. Get a question wrong and you will have points deducted from your overall score. There are five questions in all.

If you want to create your own interactive Game of Thrones map game then you might want to have a look at Carto's Game of Thrones Basemap of the Seven Kingdoms. This Game of Thrones basemap layer provides a great canvas on which you can add all of your Games of Thrones geo-data.

A Street View of Thrones

A Viz of Thrones is a map and data visualization about the characters and episodes of the HBO series Game of Thrones. The map allows you to view the setting in Westros or Essos where every single scene in all seven screened seasons of A Game of Thrones takes place.

At the heart of a Viz of Thrones is a mapped timeline which allows you to drill down into any scene, in any episode of all seven screened seasons of the television series. If you select an episode from the season timeline then the map sidebar will show all the individual scenes in that episode. Select any scene in the chosen episode and character markers will be added to the interactive map. The map therefore shows you both the location of the chosen scene and the characters who appear in it. If you click on a character's marker on the map you can even find out the length of their screen time in the chosen scene.


If you enjoy exploring these fictional locations on the interactive map then you might like to explore the real locations where these scenes were shot using Google Maps Street View. In Game of Thrones: The Old Views and the NewGoogle has curated a collection of Game of Thrones shooting locations which can be explored using Google Maps panoramic imagery. The collection includes the real shooting locations for King's Landing and Winterfell. Google's collection of magical Street Views is split into three main Houses, the Starks, Lannisters and the Mother of Dragons.


If you are impressed by A Viz of Thrones then why not create your own interactive Game of Thrones map. Thanks to Carto you don't even need to create your own basemap of Essos and Westeros. Carto's Game of Thrones Basemap of the Seven Kingdoms provides a great canvas on which you can add all of your Games of Thrones geo-data.

If you want to know how to add all your GoT geo-data to the Carto basemap then you need Patrick Triest's tutorial Building Aa Interactive Game Of Thrones Map (Part I) - Node.js, PostGIS, and Redis. The first installment of this two part tutorial explains how you can build a searchable backend to serve your data to the map. Part II of the tutorial shows you how to build a responsive interactive map for this data using Leaflet.js.

If you were wondering what a Node.js, PostGIS, and Redis powered Game of Thrones map looks like then you can find out on Patrick's Atlas of Thrones. The map includes lots of categorized points of information that you can view on the map. Including castles, towns, regions and landmarks. You can navigate to these via the categorized menu or by using the built-in search function.

Amazon's Lord of the Rings Map

Amazon is busy creating a Lord of the Rings Prime Video series. Little is known about the television series, as of yet, but there is a Lord of Rings on Prime official Twitter account. On Wednesday that account made it's first Tweet, which was a short Tolkien quote,

“I wisely started with a map” — J.R.R. Tolkien

— The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@LOTRonPrime)

Yesterday that Tweet was followed up with a link to an Amazon Prime interactive map of Middle Earth. The Amazon Prime map is a neat representation of Middle Earth, although it doesn't contain any place-name labels. The map does include a few fantasy map staples, such as a vintage looking compass rose, tattered edges and fold marks. There is also a download link which allows you to save the map as an image file.

This blank interactive map of Middle-Earth is an interesting marketing ploy, which is obviously little more than a teaser for the Amazon Prime television series. If you are a real fan of Tolkien's novels then you will probably have more fun exploring the interactive maps created by the LOTR Project. These include interactive maps of both Beleriand and Middle Earth.

The LOTR Project interactive maps include place-name labels and lots of optional layers which allow you to overlay time-lines, route and events from Tolkein's novels directly on top of the interactive maps.

The Dunder Mifflin Office

Over the years there really haven't been enough interactive maps of television studios sets. The nearest thing we've come to this in the past has been the Interactive Simpsons Story Map, which introduces the cartoon's main characters and shows where they live on an interactive map of Springfield.

However the wait for a proper interactive studio set map is now over, thanks to Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Office Map. This interactive map of the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of Dunder Mifflin provides an interactive floor map of the desks, offices, toilets staff room and other amenities which can be found in one of the world's most famous work places. What's more the map is also fully searchable. If you want to know where your favorite character sits in the Scranton office then you can enter the character's name and the map will automatically zoom in to show you their desk on the office floor plan.

As fun as the Dunder Mifflin Office Map is the map actually has a serious purpose. The map is a demonstration of the Office Floor Plan Navigator. This GIS application is designed to help create interactive floor plan maps. The application "takes indoor building floor plans and turns them into an interactive mapping platform allowing you to assign a location to anything from your favorite pen to a meeting room".

If you want to see another demonstration of the Office Floor Plan Navigator in action then check out this interactive map of the set from the television drama Suits.

Roll Your Own Game of Thrones Map

It has never been easier to create your own interactive Game of Thrones map. Thanks to Carto you don't even need to create your own basemap of Essos and Westeros. Carto's Game of Thrones Basemap of the Seven Kingdoms provides a great canvas on which you can add all of your Games of Thrones geo-data.

If you want to know how to add all your GoT geo-data to the Carto basemap then you need Patrick Triest's tutorial Building Aa Interactive Game Of Thrones Map (Part I) - Node.js, PostGIS, and Redis. The first installment of this two part tutorial explains how you can build a searchable backend to serve your data to the map. Part II of the tutorial is due next week. This second part promises to look more at the actual mapping side of building an interactive Game Of Thrones map,

If you were wondering what a Node.js, PostGIS, and Redis powered Game of Thrones map looks like then you can find out on Patrick's Atlas of Thrones. The map includes lots of categorized points of information that you can view on the map. Including castles, towns, regions and landmarks. You can navigate to these via the categorized menu or by using the built-in search function.

A Game of Thrones Filming Locations

It is said that long ago, before the Doom when dragons still flew above the towers of Tyria, Valyrian wizards could use the magic of obsidian candles to see across vast distances. A wizard could light a candle in the Valyrian Freehold in Essos and instantly spy on the Hand of the King, across the Narrow Sea in the Red Keep of King's Landing.

With the rebirth of the dragons the magic of obsidian candles is active once again. To use this ancient magic you must own the ancient scroll called Game of Thrones Filming Locations in Causeway Coast and Glens. Used properly the spells in this ancient text can instantly transport your sight to the Dothraki Grassland, the Coast of Dorne, the Stormlands or to many other locations throughout the lands of Westeros and Essos.


Dragonstone, as shown with dragon's view on the magic map of Esri

Each location that your inner vision visits is highlighted upon the magic map of Esri and shown from above with magical 'dragon's view' images. The magic map of Esri also includes ancient words of wisdom about each of the locations that you visit on your magical journeys. These words of old provide a brief history of each location and the role it has played in the long history of this Land of Ice and Fire.


There is also an ancient spell of 'Street View' which can bestow the gift of long vision onto anyone who owns the 'Map of Google'.

Game of Thrones: The Old Views and the New gives you the vision to stare straight as the dragon flies into King's Landing, Winterfell or the mysterious continent of Essos. Google's collection of magical Street Views is split into three main Houses, the Starks, Lannisters and the Mother of Dragons. This allows you to direct your gaze to any of your favorite locations on either of the continents of Essos or Westeros.

If you wish to explore the lands of A Game of Thrones even more then you might also want to consult The Five Maps of Westeros.

A Game of Thrones Street View

What could be better than exploring A Game of Thrones on the Five Maps of Westeros?

How about a world tour of some of the amazing real-life filming locations where the television series was made?

One reason for the huge success of HBO's series of George R.R. Martin's best-selling 'A Song of Ice and Fire' is the amazing set locations. HBO scoured the planet to find suitable locations to represent King's Landing, Winterfell and Essos. Google has put together a collection of filming locations from A Game of Thrones which appear on Google Maps Street View. The collection takes you on a tour of beautiful locations in Ireland, Croatia, Iceland, Spain and elsewhere around the world.

Game of Thrones: The Old Views and the New allows you to explore the filming locations for King's Landing, Winterfell and the mysterious continent of Essos. Google's collection is split into three main Houses, the Starks, Lannisters and the Mother of Dragons.

The Google Earth Blog has used Google's collection of Street Views to put together a Game Of Thrones kml file which allows you to explore these filming locations in 3d on Google Earth.

The Five Maps of Westeros

Interactive maps of Westeros seem to get cut down and eviscerated as often as the Hands of the King. As yet another new season of a Game of Thrones begins it is time once again to take stock of our favorite interactive maps of George R. R. Martin's fantasy world.

Web of Allegiances is an interactive map of Game of Thrones which shows you where the Great Houses reside and the many entangled pacts and allegiances between them. You can select any of the characters on the map to view their name and the Houses that they are allied to. You can also click through to learn more about the character on the Games of Thrones wiki.


Last year A Song of Ice and Data emerged from Beyond the Wall to shed new light on Westeros & Essos. A Song of Ice and Data is a new REST API, interactive map and data store created by students at the Technical University of Munich. Most of the data for the project has been scraped from the Wiki of Ice and Fire.

The Song of Ice and Data interactive map shows the lands, borders and cities of the Known World. It also includes travel paths of all the major characters. If you select any of the marked locations on the map you can learn more about the location from the Wiki of Ice and Fire. If you want to view a character's travel path on the map just search for the character using the map's search box.


The Interactive Game of Thrones Map is another map of the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos from George Martin's series of fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire.

The map features all the locations from the television series and books. The map also allows you to follow the journeys of all the main characters through the different seasons. To view a character's path select their name from the map sidebar and use the timeline slider control.


The Westeros Map is another Google Map of the fictional continent of Westeros from George Raymond Richard Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels. This map shows important locations on the continent of Westeros. Clicking on the locations on the map will take you to that location's wiki entry.


Game of Thrones is an Esri StoryMap of Westeros and Essos. The map sidebar includes links to important locations on the two continents. If you zoom in on the map the sidebar updates to show links to important locations in the current map view. A drop-down menu also provides quick links to view important regions on the map.

The reason for all these maps is undoubtedly the popularity of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels and HBO's popular Game of Thrones dramatization of this series. However these interactive maps also owe a huge debt of gratitude to Jonathan Roberts' official maps of Westeros and Essos, based on George R. R. Martin own hand-drawn maps.


When compiling a list of interactive maps of fictional worlds it would be remiss not to add a quick link to the LOTR Project's interactive Map of Middle Earth. This interactive map of J.R.R. Tolkein's fantasy world is the original interactive fictional map and still takes some beating.

30 Years of The Simpsons

The Simpsons are celebrating their 30th anniversary. The first ever short episode of The Simpsons appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, 1987. Remarkably Bart Simpson doesn't look a day older now than he did in that first ever episode.

A new Esri Story Map of Springfield has been released to celebrate this 30th anniversary. The map not only allows you to explore America's most famous town but also includes a wealth of information about the show and all the main characters. As you progress through the Interactive Simpsons Story Map you are introduced to the show's characters and also shown where they live on the Springfield map.

You can also explore the map yourself. If you click on any of the colored building footprints on the map an information window will open with a description of the selected building.


The Simpson's City Map provides a bird's eye view of Springfield. This map allows you to explore an oblique view of Springfield and view places of interest in the town, such as the home of the Simpsons family (742 Evergreen Terrace) and the location of the.world's first ever Kwik-E-Mart.

If you select a marker on The Simpson's City Map you can learn more about some of the town's most important locations, The Simpson's City Map also include an attempt to crowd-source information. If you have information about a building on the map you can press the 'contribute' button to submit your own knowledge about the town of Springfield.

Sigur Rós - Summer Solstice Tour of Iceland

Sigur Rós – Route One is a live 'slow TV' event, which for 24 hours will be live broadcasting a summer solstice journey around Iceland. Rock band Sigur Rós are currently driving around Iceland's 1,332km long coastal ring road and broadcasting the whole event on YouTube.

If you visit the Sigur Rós – Route One website you can watch the live stream of the event and view the band's real-time position on a Google Map. I actually suspect that the band members themselves are not participating in the actual drive. However the live stream of the journey does include a Sigur Rós soundtrack.

The soundtrack is being created live by generative music software using elements from the Sigur Rós' song 'óveður'.

Mapping the Simpsons

PlayGIS's Springfield is a gloriously detailed map of America's most famous town. The map allows you to explore an oblique view of Springfield and view places of interest in the town, such as the home of the Simpsons family (742 Evergreen Terrace) and the location of the.world's first ever Kwik-E-Mart.

The Springfield map was created using the Esri mapping platform. It is now also available as a Leaflet powered map. The Simpson's City Map is an attempt at directly port (plagiarize?) playGIS's map into Leaflet.js.

The new Simpson's City Map includes the same map tiles and even the same marked locations and town information as the playGIS map. In fact the Simpson's City Map doesn't appear to have created quite as many layers of map tiles as playGIS, therefore it doesn't have the same quality when you zoom in on the map of Springfield.

The new Simpson's City Map does include an attempt to crowd-source information about the town of Springfield. The map includes a 'contribute' button. Press this button and you are taken to another Springfield map with an e-mail address for contributing information about locations on the map.

Mapping Washington's Spies

AMC's period drama 'TURN - Washington Spies' is a fictionalized account of America's first spy ring, the Culper Ring. The Culper Spy Ring was established under the orders of George Washington. Its purpose was to spy on the activities of the British Army in New York City and report to General Washington.

To help promote the second season of 'Turn' AMC has released the TURN - Washington Spies interactive map. The map allows you to explore some of the real-life locations and events that feature in the series on top of a vintage map.

When you select an episode from the map menu the real locations and events that feature in that episode are displayed on the map. You can then select these markers on the map to learn more about the Culper Ring and the American War of Independence in the map sidebar.

One of the neat little features of this map are the handy arrow markers which appear on the map pointing to markers which appear outside the current map view. You can replicate this feature in Leaflet.js by using the Leaflet EdgeMarker plugin.

A Song of Ice, Data & Maps

Every Spring, as another series of Thrones approaches, we get to witness little buds of hope emerging from the thawing earth of Winterfell. Yes - it's time once again for a new crop of interactive maps all about A Song of Ice & Fire.

This year A Song of Ice and Data has emerged from Beyond the Wall to shed new light on George R. R. Martin's fantasy world. A Song of Ice and Data is a new REST API, interactive map and data store created by students at the Technical University of Munich. Most of the data for the project has been scraped from the Wiki of Ice and Fire.

The Song of Ice and Data interactive map shows the lands, borders and cities of the Known World. It also includes travel paths of all the major characters. If you select any of the marked locations on the map you can learn more about the location from the Wiki of Ice and Fire. If you want to view a character's travel path on the map just search for the character using the map's search box.

You can find more Game of Thrones interactive maps in Mapping A Game of Thrones.

The Los Angeles Resistance Map

Fans of USA Network's science fiction television series 'Colony' can explore the near-future dystopian Los Angeles portrayed in the show in an interactive map of the city.

Colony TV allows you to explore the city of LA under the military occupation of the Colony Transitional Authority. Using the map you can explore locations featured in the Colony television series and you can also help the Resistance by completing a number of secret missions.

If you don't wish to join the Resistance you can become a Collaborator and help the alien invaders to keep control of the city and its human population. The map itself changes color depending on whether you choose to complete missions as part of the Resistance or as a Collaborator.

If you want to explore all the locations featured on the map then it is easiest to navigate between the different LA neighborhoods using the inset mini-map of the city. Using the mini-map pop-up menu you can quickly pan the map to different LA locations.

New York on TV

WNYC has mapped four years of shooting location permits submitted to the New York's Mayor's Office by television companies. The map allows you to explore where your favorite New York based television shows have been filmed in the city.

TV Shooting Locations in New York is a hexbin map showing the most popular shooting locations in the city for TV shows. It also allows you to view where individual New York based programs have been shot.

The most popular shooting locations appear to be Midtown and Lower Manhattan. However Greenpoint, Long Island City and Astoria are all popular locations as well. If you use the drop-down menu at the top of the map you can see where individual television shows like to shoot. For example, The Good Wife seems to like Green Point and Long Island City locations, while The Americans is very fond of South Brooklyn.

The Shadowhunters Map

Whether you're an angel or demon you are sure to enjoy the Map of Shadows. The Map of Shadows allows you to explore a map of New York through the eyes of either a Mundane or a Shadowhunter.

The map includes locations featured in episodes 1-5 of Freeform's Shadowhunters television series. When viewing the map you can choose to be either a Mundane or a Shadowhunter. A different Mapbox Studio map style is shown depending on your choice. Different locations from the show are also marked and accessible from the map depending on whether you choose to view it as a Mundane or Shadowhunter.

The map is being updated with new locations when each new episode airs. So you can check back after each episode to find out about new locations featured in the show.

Explore the Dragons Isle of Berk

No-one believed that vikings and dragons could live together in peace and harmony. The dragon trainers of the Isle of Berk proved them wrong. Now thanks to the mapping skills of Hiccup and Toothless you can explore the Island of Berk and all the outlying islands on a fully interactive Google Map.

The Dragons: Race to the Edge Map includes two main map layers. The 'Map View' shows you the locations of the main outlying islands. If you select an island's map marker you can learn more about the island and even learn how many dragon hours it would take you to fly there.

The 'Dragon View' map shows you the locations of all the different dragon species. You can click on a dragon species marker to learn a little more about the dragons' abilities and nature.

Who Will Miss Jon Stewart?

As Jon Stewart prepares to sit behind the Daily Show desk for the last time a new Google Trends map shows us where he will be missed the most.

The Jon Stewart in Search Interest map suggests that the comedian will not be missed very much in Texas. This choropleth map shows the regional search interest in Jon Stewart between 2010 and 2015. On the map each region is colored to show how it ranks out of 200 regions in terms of the number of people searching for Jon Stewart on Google.

In general Texans seem to be searching a lot less for Jon Stewart than other Americans. Although, to be fair to Texans, the comedian doesn't seem to be that popular in much of the south. His popularity seems most high in the north and in the west of the USA.

If yo want to create your own maps based on Google search trends then you should check out the Google Trends Data Store.

Game of Thrones Filming Locations

If you are already missing a Game of Thrones then why not visit some of the stunning real world locations used in the TV program? If you can't visit them yourself then you can at least explore them on the Game of Thrones: Discovering the Known World map.

The map takes you on a tour of some of the locations used when filming Game of Thrones, including locations in Ireland, Iceland, Spain and Croatia. After finding a location on this map you can always go to Google Maps and see if Street View is also available.


Here's a link to the Dark Hedges on Street View. Here is Meereen. I'm sure you kind find some of the rest yourself.

You might also like these Six Other Game of Thrones Maps.

Via: Visualoop