Cataloging Wizards Maps

[Trit One-Ear]

Okay, last post for today (I think).

As a DM who plays with friends cross-country via maptool, I use a lot of pregen maps. I have also made my own when the right one simply could not be found. However, searching through DDI's thumbnails in their map galleries is... frustrating to say the least. I was thinking of cataloging the maps based on type (underground, forest, city, ruins, etc). Is there a legal way to do this? I would love to share the fruits of my labor with other DM's, even if only those subscribed to DDI.
Also, truth be told, short of saving all the files to my computer and posting them online (not going to do this for obvious reasons) not sure how to go about formatting my catalog. So advice there would be helpful too.

Trit

 

[D'karr]

Okay, last post for today (I think).

As a DM who plays with friends cross-country via maptool, I use a lot of pregen maps. I have also made my own when the right one simply could not be found. However, searching through DDI's thumbnails in their map galleries is... frustrating to say the least. I was thinking of cataloging the maps based on type (underground, forest, city, ruins, etc). Is there a legal way to do this? I would love to share the fruits of my labor with other DM's, even if only those subscribed to DDI.
Also, truth be told, short of saving all the files to my computer and posting them online (not going to do this for obvious reasons) not sure how to go about formatting my catalog. So advice there would be helpful too.

Trit

A catalog of the links to the images would be helpful. At that point you are not distributing WotC's maps, you are simply letting people know where to find the map based on the "index" you create.

 

[keterys]

Here's a decent starting point: http://community.wizards.com/alphastream1/blog/2011/11/17/organizing_and_using_wotc_poster_maps

Lots more to do beyond that, of course.

 

[ShogunAssassin]

Good call, I feel i have the same problem so i havnt re subscribed to DDI

 

[Quickleaf]

I know Mike Shea at Sly Flourish has a map gallery of all the poster maps he owns.

http://slyflourish.com/map_index.html

 

[Trit One-Ear]

So from what I'm hearing, I can catalog as long as I don't post content that otherwise you could only get via DDI.

My new question is what would be the best way to organize these online, so I don't give them away, but also don't have to download them all to my computer.
The only way I can think of is to write a spreadsheet, organizing tags and providing links to the DDI website. Still feels a little clunky though.

Any other advice from those more tech savvy?

Trit

 

[Lindeloef]

I know Mike Shea at Sly Flourish has a map gallery of all the poster maps he owns.

http://slyflourish.com/map_index.html

I wish i had all these maps as a (high)quality .png or .jpg so i could use them in maptool. WotC should publish a map-pack of these over at rpgnow/drivethrurpg... I would totaly buy it.