Now there is no excuse to feel lost while watching “Game of Thrones,” with Google Maps technology used to create an online interactive map.
The map started life in 2012, when fan serMountainGoat took the worlds created by George R.R. Martin and turned them into a map.
The legend to the map has many of the major characters (no, not all the characters — nobody has time for that). You click on a character’s name and see their journey from the start of the books or TV series to now, or at least until their untimely (or timely) end.
The best example of how a character gets around in “Game of Thrones” is to click on the white box next to the name Arya Stark.
Just make sure, if you haven’t read the books, that you click on episodes rather than chapters first or otherwise you’ll accidentally see that poor young Arya and her sword, Needle, still have a fair journey ahead of them. Or not — let’s not have any spoilers here.
When the map was created, serMountainGoat says, he showed it to Martin himself, who took time out of his slow grind of book writing to cast his eye over it.
“This is a very handsome map. And based on the information you have, it’s quite good,” is apparently what George said.
In terms of catchy phrases, it’s no “Winter is coming” or “A Lannister always pays his debts,” but it’s something.
In terms of a melding of pop culture and tech smarts, the Google Map site is a cool bit of geekdom.
Now if someone could only come up with an automatic memory prompter so we don’t all sit there on Sunday night saying, “So, who’s that guy again?”
This article originally appeared on News.com.au.