A teen has spent the last seven years creating a map of a fantasy city and even wrote travel guides and history books about it.
Jake Daniels-Shipsmith, 14, has been working on this map since he was seven years old and just completed it last Sunday (Sept 8).
The map is made up of nine pieces of A3 paper, reaches three-metres-long and one-metre-wide and is a testament to Jake's love of history and geography.
The city of Ty-taniam, pronounced "titanium", has several sections which span different historical time periods, including a Tudor town, a Roman city and Medieval villages.
As he got older, Jake stopped working on the map regularly until about a week ago when he decided to finish the piece and completed it over the weekend.
Jake Daniels-Shipsmith, 14, has been working on this map since he was seven years old and just completed it last Sunday (Sept 8).
The map is made up of nine pieces of A3 paper, reaches three-metres-long and one-metre-wide and is a testament to Jake's love of history and geography.
The city of Ty-taniam, pronounced "titanium", has several sections which span different historical time periods, including a Tudor town, a Roman city and Medieval villages.
As he got older, Jake stopped working on the map regularly until about a week ago when he decided to finish the piece and completed it over the weekend.
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00:00Hello, I'm Jake Daniel Shipsmith.
00:07So I started drawing it in year two, so that's in primary school.
00:11So I think that's like seven or eight years ago, so it's quite a long time ago.
00:15I started off actually in that yellowish looking bit there, and I started off with a roundabout,
00:21and then that's where I started off doing the roads, because I think a roundabout's
00:25actually a good place to start.
00:27I actually put trees around the edge, because I didn't expect it to actually be bigger.
00:32One of my friends from primary school actually drew a zoo and some houses there, and drew
00:38like a playground and a supermarket over there, and my parents drew a bay, which is down there,
00:45and then one of my other dads drew a boating lake and some other stuff like that.
00:50She didn't know that the sea was actually the sea, and she thought the land was the
00:53sea, so she actually ended up drawing a cafe in the middle of the water, which was, yeah,
00:59a bit funny.
01:00I think I'm going to probably tape it up a bit more, because there's bits that hang over,
01:05but I think I'm probably just going to keep it where it lives, and just try and hope that
01:10it stays safe living there, and doesn't get more damaged.