Warning: Spoilers for sequence one in every of Amazon’s Fallout TV present lie forward.
So, until you delibrately taking this slowly or have been actually busy, odds are you’ve got had an opportunity to take a seat down and watch Amazon’s Fallout TV present by this level. As you’d count on, it is received rather a lot to supply when it comes to cool background particulars and references in your pleasant neigbourhood Fallout nerd, with one in every of these being an enormous map of vaults that you may now take a look at in interactive type.
Yep, nestled amid the array of little homages to the video games that impressed the sequence, and the array of potential little homages to the video games that impressed the sequence we would not even know are speculated to be that, there’s large lure for geography lovers in all places. And naturally, the fandom’s eager cartographers have already executed rather a lot with it.
Kicking issues off, Fallout content material creator Nikki, who goes by the deal with Tunnelsnakesfool and is presently learning a masters diploma in geography, rapidly determined to show the large map of US vaults, which you’ll be able to see within the background of an essential assembly at Vault-Tec throughout the present’s closing episode, into one thing of us might work together with a bit simpler. So, she took a screenshot of the map, added georeferences to all of the vaults it exhibits, after which pulled it into Google Earth.
Due to her exhausting work, now you can obtain a KML file that’ll add the vault map to Google Earth as a helpful interactive overlay that you may mess around with and use to essentially get an concept of simply the place every vault proven is situated state and city-wise. As soon as you’ve got grabbed the file from Tunnelsnakesfool’s Discord server, you may need a little bit of enjoyable getting the pictures to point out up in a approach that matches Nikki’s Twitter thread, however the factors shall be plotted regardless.
As you would possibly count on, Tunnelsnakesfool is not the one individual that’s picked up on the map, with Adam Whitehead – who goes by the deal with Werthead – having used it to revise a really detailed map of Fallout’s vaults that he made some time in the past. This map additionally consists of the entire different vaults both confirmed or hinted at within the video games and both semi or non-canon sources of Fallout data to date, with the TV Present map’s vaults having been added in blue, since for a lot of nothing past their deliberate development has been confirmed as of now.
Whereas it appears like he is nonetheless received to return and re-do his map’s model of Florida, there are nonetheless some fascinating conclusions to attract, equivalent to this up to date map exhibiting one thing very near the 122 vault areas cited within the non-canon Fallout Bible. Mexico and Canada additionally look to have gotten at the very least one vault every too, which is fairly thought-provoking.
Should you’re desirous about extra enjoyable fallout issues, be sure to take a look at the big characteristic we lately put collectively exploring the place the Fallout fandom is at because the TV present arrives.
