Discworld: The Ankh-Morpork Map is the work of publisher Transworld and app developer Agant, and it faces quite a challenge. Now in 2013 there's an iPad app trying to map it out.
The city felt real and living to me in a way that Tolkien's Middle-earth never did. Only a Twitter account remains.The more books I read, the clearer a picture I had in my head about what Ankh-Morpork was like through Pratchett's descriptions and the cover artwork by Josh Kirby. There was an extremely good interactive map of Ankh-Morpork on the French-language Discworld site Vade Mecum: unfortunately, the Vade Mecum site is no more. The city shares its name with an owl native to the Foggy Islands. This is because it may be dirty, evil-smelling and dangerous, but it's always interesting. Most of the locations for the many books about or including Ankh-Morpork, apart from Pseudopolis Yard and the Ramkin mansion, are in Morpork. It also includes Unseen University, the Patrician's Palace and the halls of most of the ruling guilds, so while the old-money aristocracy and the guild leaders may reside in Ankh, the power and control are exercised in Morpork. It contains most of the industry, commerce and shipping that support a city-state with no natural resources beyond a barely navigable river.
It's also, overwhelmingly, where Ankh-Morpork's work is done. Ankh has mansions and parks Morpork has abattoirs and tanneries, warehouses and cathouses, dingy taverns and, below all, the Shades. It's down in every category known to sociology and political economy, down geographically, financially, aesthetically and morally. It is not necessary to say "downtown Ankh-Morpork".
Morpork is the half of Ankh-Morpork widdershins of the river Ankh.
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