Talk:Book:The Discworld Mapp

Like the admirers of the Emperor's new clothes, no one seems to have remarked on the obvious deficiencies of The Discworld Mapp. Like the smartass kid in the story, I ask: why is The Streets of Ankh-Morpork so good, and the world Mapp so bad?
The Streets is amazingly detailed and I've never heard of or found a fault with it, but the Mapp doesn't come close. Lancre is a featured location in six books and mentioned elsewhere, but it can't be located accurately on the mapp, and where it seems most likely to be is nearly twice as far from Ankh-Morpork as the text tells us. Quirm appears to be much farther from Ankh-Morpork than we were told. Few locations can be determined more closely than the equivalent of "Vienna is somewhere in the middle of Europe". Omissions abound, too, but they don't matter very much when the included material is so weak. --Old Dickens 00:10, 21 November 2009 (UTC)