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The Earth Mapping Project aims to cross-reference both in-game and supplementary material to attempt to make sense of Earth's topographic and political status as of approximately the 26th-century.

This is in conjunction with work done on the Mombasa Mapping Project.

Goals

Current research

Official and IRL maps

Resources

Primary resources

  • Halo 2 - Set on Earth; includes a swathe of visual, audio, and narrative information.
    • Halo 2: Anniversary - Set on Earth; includes a swathe of visual, audio, and narrative information.
  • Halo 3 - Set on Earth; includes a swathe of visual, audio, and narrative information.
  • Halo 3: ODST - Set on Earth; includes a swathe of visual, audio, and narrative information.
  • Halo: Ghosts of Onyx - Set on Earth; includes location hierarchies in chapter headers for sections on Earth as well as other descriptions of the planet.
  • Halo: Contact Harvest - Set on Earth; includes location hierarchies in chapter headers for sections on Earth as well as other descriptions of the planet.
  • Halo: Legacy of Onyx - Set on Earth; includes descriptions of the planet.
  • Halo: Evolutions - Contains multiple short stories either set, focused on, or heavily mention Earth.
  • Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition) - Contains a detailed breakdown of locations on Earth, as well as several other mentions of the planet.
  • Halo: Uprising - Set on Earth; includes a swathe of visual and narrative information.

Additional resources

  • Halo 5: Guardians - While not set on Earth, contains various descriptions involving Earth as well as Earth itself appearing elsewhere.
  • Halo 4 - While not set on Earth, contains various descriptions involving Earth as well as Earth itself appearing elsewhere.
  • Halo: Reach - While not set on Earth, contains various descriptions involving Earth as well as Earth itself appearing elsewhere.

Confirmed information

Discrepancies

  • In an overhead map of North America for Halo2.com, Mexico and the United States are considered a single entity, excluding Canada despite the existence of the URNA

Locational hierarchy

Pre-Great Purification
Post-Great Purification
26th-century

Planetary activity

November 17th, 2552

Activity on Earth on November 17th.

Based on the overview map for Sector 331, we get to see activity across the surface of Earth. Where 26th-century polities or features are unknown, real-world 21st-century ones will be.

Cleanup

Locations

Checked boxes indicate articles that have been updated with new info and images.

Characters

Double check that locations and location based info is updated on various character related pages.

Battles

See also

Sources