Just for fun, I thought I would attempt to align some maps from different versions of Zelda. While in truth meaningful alignments between the games maps are probably coincidental, they oddly enough made sense in a lot of places. Making them line up required that Hyrule pretty much rotate gradually as time passed, but they lined up surprisingly well. I even threw in MM, even though it is debatable whether it is supposed to be geographically connected. I'm sure there are probably other ways they could have been aligned, but like I said, they did line up surprisingly well in some places.
This is a rudimentary location mapping, without illustrations (yet):
http://mysticpaint.com/img/temp/zelda_maps.png
If you let your imagination run wild, you can almost invent little histories behind certain areas of the map, such as new structures being built over old ones, or the thought of areas always being there even though they were inaccessible in a particular game.
Items of contention may be that the lake seems to move, the castle is rebuilt in new locations, and generations of Deku trees are in different locations.
Creepy unintentional coincidences exist, such as the Abandoned Mansion being in the location of Windfall Island, the Forsaken Fortress being near the Twinrova clones in Woodfall, Ordon Ranch being on Outset Island, and three mirror related locations being near to one another in what might be imagined as a larger unexplored complex of ruins.
Edit:
Slightly updated.
http://mysticpaint.com/img/temp/zelda_maps2.png
This is a rudimentary location mapping, without illustrations (yet):
http://mysticpaint.com/img/temp/zelda_maps.png
If you let your imagination run wild, you can almost invent little histories behind certain areas of the map, such as new structures being built over old ones, or the thought of areas always being there even though they were inaccessible in a particular game.
Items of contention may be that the lake seems to move, the castle is rebuilt in new locations, and generations of Deku trees are in different locations.
Creepy unintentional coincidences exist, such as the Abandoned Mansion being in the location of Windfall Island, the Forsaken Fortress being near the Twinrova clones in Woodfall, Ordon Ranch being on Outset Island, and three mirror related locations being near to one another in what might be imagined as a larger unexplored complex of ruins.
Edit:
Slightly updated.
http://mysticpaint.com/img/temp/zelda_maps2.png