r/cartography

Over the past few months I built GeoSwipe, an iOS app for learning about countries in depth through a more interactive format.

The idea is simple: you discover countries one at a time, swipe left to see another, or swipe right to open a detailed guide when one catches your interest.

Each guide covers basic geography, landscapes, culture, history, language, cities, government, economy, everyday life, and common misconceptions. It also includes audio, flag explanations, regional maps, interactive statistics, and references to the original sources. The content is grounded in reputable sources such as Britannica, the World Bank, and National Geographic.

I also added country comparisons, quizzes, and short geography games, including ranking countries by population, locating countries on the map, and flag and capital quizzes.

I’ve just released it on iOS and included a very short demo here. I’d genuinely appreciate honest feedback from fellow geography nerds.

This is an update post to my original. I used the suggestions from all the comments. (Except for a few that I'm still finding maps I can use to update the maps, e.g. China) Again, if you find any problems with the map, then please tell me; there are some artistic choices that I want to keep, like Denmark's colour.

yes, its not as good as the census department map but i am trying to build the application that can make the maps faster and as good and professional as possible for students and workers as they spend a lot of time rendering the layout than analysis, i hope ouyou would check out this MAPDESK LAYOUT on microsoft store and give me suggestion and the feild where i need to improve the application so that all of us can make our map layout faster and better, thank y

Hello, I made this map to show where avocados grow across Mexico and why the climate works so well for them. The top panel map highlights main production areas while bottom maps break down yields and climate zones that supports the crop production. Michoacán dominates the avocado market as usual but there are other states with high yield.

I got the idea for this map watching random videos online and thought it will be fun/helpful to make this. Feedbacks are always welcome and I hope you enjoy!

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I'm a cartographer, and when it comes to it every artist experiences this at some point:

Art Block

I need some help. I need ideas from the community on what to map. I've done it all from modern-day posters to historical to star-charts to digital maps to anything I'm willing to try.

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to track down a higher-resolution version of the attached map.

It is an "Ortsplan" (village plan) for Weprowatz, which was a Danube Swabian (Donauschwaben) settlement in the Batschka region. Today, the village is known as Kruščić in modern-day Serbia.

The version I currently have is too compressed and pixelated to make out the specific lot numbers, family names, or finer details. I suspect this might have been scanned from a specific historical lineage book (Ortssippenbuch) or a regional archive.

Does anyone recognize what book or archive this specific map was pulled from, or know where I might be able to find a scan that is legible?

Any points in the right direction to specific databases or historical societies would be hugely appreciated.

Thank you!

Sorry if this has been posted before, and apologies for not checking if this has been posted before, but it's a bit warm and I'm fundamentally lazy.

Anyhow, I was in Central Library with my young daughter today, and when looking for the immersive projection room walking into another, where there was a thing I was immensely keen on: a 3D printed map of Nottingham (at least, most of it).

It has a projector above it so you can see various scenarios (extreme drought above, which although a fantasy scenario felt a little on the nose) and real-world ones: temperature variations, population density, tree distribution, flooding and so on.

As a fan of maps and a fan of how data can be shown with imagination and elegance, this was a delight, and it is apparently getting a larger home near the Contemporary in Autumn.

Go and have a look if you fancy. I want one of Beeston, in my house.

Sorry guys this is my first post. Please help me with attaching these 10 A4 papers to make a map 5x2 (width x height) for a board game I want to make. But I just can’t figure how to do it without messing up. Thanking in advance for all the help which hopefully comes. Images provided below .

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3731622948

>A list of preview images of all the map types. There is a varying amount of samples for each type.
If you want me to add specific map configurations, feel free to comment.

I've been frustrated for a while that making a clean, publication-ready map layout in most GIS software requires clicking through a dozen menus and fighting the UI. I wanted something that stays out of the way and just lets you import, style, and export a crisp map.

So I built MapDesk Layout — a focused Windows GIS workspace for desktop cartography.

What it does:

• Imports GeoJSON, Shapefiles, and GeoTIFF rasters (DEM, NDVI, etc.)

• Styles layers with colour ramps, class breaks, DEM hillshades, and vector symbology

• Has a full layout studio with graticules, north arrows, scale bars, legends, and academic fonts

• Exports to PDF, PNG, and JPG at up to 600 DPI

The core idea was to separate "data exploration" from "map presentation." Most GIS tools force you to do both in the same overloaded interface. I wanted the layout stage to feel like InDesign for maps.

Here are a few screenshots of the interface and some sample outputs:

Would love feedback from anyone else who does a lot of cartographic layout work — what am I missing? What would you change?

Full disclosure: I'm a student and a developer. If anyone wants to try it, I can share the link in the comments.