2D city maps
The streets you know, in colours that feel like you. Choose your place and style, then add words, markers or a GPX route on top of the map.
Optional map layer · GPX routesAdd your route ↗
Maps Are Cool / The complete collection
Every place.
Every perspective.
A city you love. A sky you remember. A landscape you can hold. Find your kind of map, then make it personal.
8map types82style families142looks to make yours
First, find your perspective
There’s more than one
way to map a memory.
Every map starts in the same studio family. Choose what you want to make; the place, colours and details come next.
3D artwork
City skylines and mountain landscapes, drawn with depth. Turn the view, shape the light and make a perspective for your wall.
Star maps
The sky over a place and moment that matter. Choose the date and time, then compose stars, constellations and the Milky Way.
Typography maps
Say it with a city name. Fill your own word with real streets, choose the lettering, and find the perfect crop inside every letter.
River maps
Follow the branching handwriting of water. Explore a prepared river network or find waterways around a place of your own.
Forest maps
Woodland becomes a quiet pattern of dots, outlines or solid shapes. Discover prepared landscapes or find the forests near your place.
Road connections
Let every road lead somewhere personal. Trace routes into a destination, or explore the shape and colour of a complete road network.
3D printed maps
A place you can hold. Turn real cities or terrain into raised relief, add a route and pins, then prepare your model for a 3D printer.
Then, make it feel like you
The complete style library.
From quiet graphite to bright neighbourhoods. Browse every registered artwork style, choose a look, and open it ready to edit.
Colour & line studyWhite
Crisp streets, pale water and open space. A simple beginning for any place.
Map style · White
PraguePen & Ink
Fine pen strokes on white or warm paper, bold Toner, open Coloring Book outlines or Blackwater Atlas contrasts.
Lower ManhattanCrosshatch
City buildings shaded in layers of graphite and expressive pencil marks.
3D artwork · Crosshatch
Financial DistrictPaper City
An ivory paper city, with raised streets and buildings above charcoal water.
3D artwork · Paper City
Demonstration gardenIllustrated Garden
Sepia architecture, rounded tree canopies and an illustrated garden atmosphere.
3D artwork · Illustrated Garden
Mount EtnaPrismatic Terrain
Mountains in coloured facets or an open wireframe. Real elevation, a fresh perspective.
Colour & line studyHand-drawn Atlas
Pencil streets, terracotta washes and the warmth of a sketched city.
PraguePencil
Soft graphite and pale streets on fine drawing paper.
Ganges Harbour detail8-bit
Neon contours, bright streets and pixel lettering with an eighties spirit.
Map style · 8-bit
Kazan close detailWheatpaste
Pasted-paper texture, bold colour, halftones and oversized place names.
Map style · Wheatpaste
Budapest close detailEggMap
A city in neighbourhood-sized blocks of colour, joined by white streets.
Map style · EggMap
BudapestContour Ink
Midnight-blue buildings, heavy river banks and closely drawn contour lines.
Map style · Contour Ink
Colour & line studyWatercolour
Overlapping washes, blue water and rich, softly varied pigments.
Map style · Watercolour
Colour & line studyEngraved Relief
Fine linework and shaded slopes give the landscape an engraved character.
Map style · Engraved Relief
SicilyLayered Paper Relief
Elevation becomes layers of paper, shallow shadows and recessed water.
Map style · Layered Paper Relief
Colour & line studySchwarzplan
Building footprints reveal the grain and rhythm of a city.
New YorkUrban Form
Grids, winding streets and city blocks become bold graphic structure.
BarcelonaUrban Mosaic
Flat inks fill city blocks between cream streets and waterways.
Colour & line studyTron
Cyan outlines, magenta streets and luminous detail against black.
Map style · Tron Grid
ParisAnaglyph 3D
Red and cyan linework gives a flat map a stereoscopic character.
Map style · Anaglyph 3D
AucklandTypographic Atlas
Street and place names become the lines and textures of the map itself.
BudapestRisograph
Layered inks, halftones and the character of an imperfectly aligned print.
Map style · Risograph
Colour & line studyUrban Mezzotint
Fine dots and marks build up a dark, richly textured city.
Map style · Urban Mezzotint
Colour & line studyBlind Emboss
Quiet ivory, raised footprints and delicate light and shadow.
Map style · Blind Emboss
BarcelonaLinocut
Bold ink, carved-out streets and broken textures on paper.
Map style · Linocut
Colour & line studyThread & Embroidery
Stitched streets, thread-like lines and embroidered green spaces.
Map style · Thread & Embroidery
VeniceRetro
Strong colours and familiar street patterns with a vintage poster feel.
Colour & line studyTin Tin
Warm, pared-back cartography with dark water and gentle contrast.
Map style · Tin Tin
Colour & line studyWire
Fine street networks in a choice of clear, contrasting palettes.
Colour & line studyContour
Terrain lines and quiet colours bring the landscape into focus.
Colour & line studyParchment
Soft browns, muted water and the warmth of an old atlas.
Map style · Parchment
Colour & line studyOriginals
Bold monochrome colourways for an instantly recognisable place.
BratislavaPunch
Confident colour and strong street hierarchies, from mint to deep darks.
ParisTwo Colours
A restrained two-colour palette gives the street network room to speak.
Colour & line studyCanopy
Gentle greens and fine streets for a softer view of the city.
Map style · Canopy
Colour & line studyTin Tin Colour
A colourful variation on a warm, quietly drawn atlas.
BratislavaMineral
Sand land, deep woodland and mineral-coloured water, with a finely detailed city.
Map style · Mineral
BratislavaTreasure
Parchment, mint water, rose streets and the spirit of a nautical chart.
Map style · Treasure
Colour & line studyVintage
Muted colours and an aged-paper atmosphere for a familiar place.
Map style · Vintage
Colour & line studyBresson
A photographic range of monochrome and subtly tinted city palettes.
Colour & line studyGeo
Pale geographical colours and fine, understated streets.
Map style · Geo
Colour & line studyTerrain
Shaded elevation, soft water and gentle natural colours.
Map style · Terrain
Colour & line studyCountry
Quiet greens and an open, countryside-inspired palette.
Map style · Country
Colour & line studyRewheat
Pink streets and lively contrasts on warm, earthy paper.
Map style · Rewheat
Colour & line studyBlueprint
Grey map lines on a deep blue technical drawing.
Map style · Blueprint
Colour & line studyCircuit Board
Gold linework and subtle green areas on charcoal.
Map style · Circuit Board
Colour & line studyMonochrome
Uniform black road, rail and water linework on white.
Map style · Monochrome
Colour & line studyFigure Ground
Black building footprints reveal the shape of a city.
Map style · Figure Ground
Colour & line studyMajor Roads
Yellow motorways and green main roads on warm paper.
Map style · Major Roads
Colour & line studyWalking Paths
Green main roads, red local streets and magenta footpaths.
Map style · Walking Paths
Colour & line studyGreen Roads
Green main roads over soft green land cover.
Map style · Green Roads
Colour & line studySoft Colours
Peach main roads, pale yellow streets and mint green parks.
Map style · Soft Colours
Colour & line studyColouring Map
White cased streets and unfilled grey shapes for a colouring-book look.
Map style · Colouring Map
Colour & line studyWall Art
Magenta streets and layered lilac areas make a bold poster.
Map style · Wall Art
Colour & line studyOSM Wireframe
Fine grey geometry on charcoal, with two sampled dark green landcover shades.
Map style · OSM Wireframe
Colour & line studyNeutralmap Relief
Pale land, muted green forests, orange and yellow roads, and real shaded terrain.
Map style · Neutralmap Relief
Colour & line studyArchitectural Plan
Grey building footprints and cyan water on white, with optional fine brown contours.
Map style · Architectural Plan
Colour & line studyCities: Skylines
Colour-coded building uses, blue water and orange motorways on warm ivory.
Map style · Cities: Skylines
Colour & line studyBlacklines - Graywater
Dark road networks on white land, with light-grey water and grey minor streets.
Map style · Blacklines - Graywater
Colour & line studyUrbanight
A luminous black map with faint green named roads, red unnamed roads and barely visible area colour.
Map style · Urbanight
Colour & line studyHuman
Warm paper, lilac main roads, white side streets and soft green landscapes.
Map style · Human
Colour & line studyBW
A detailed Rotbarsch grey map with pale cased streets, labelled places and the source yellow trunk-road accent.
Map style · BW
Colour & line studyBlackinverse
White road networks on solid black, with no land fills, labels or decorative features.
Map style · Blackinverse
Colour & line studyMajor / Minor Black
Black arterial roads above thin grey neighbourhood streets on white.
Map style · Major / Minor Black
Colour & line studyGoogleosm
Orange highways, yellow main roads, white streets and familiar pastel land-use colours.
Map style · Googleosm
Colour & line studySoftcolors RCSmit
Peach arterial roads and light yellow local streets against mint green parkland.
Map style · Softcolors RCSmit
Colour & line studyKleurplaat
A colouring-book map with outlined land use and buildings, pale cased streets and the active light-grey playground exception.
Map style · Kleurplaat
Colour & line studyAmsterdam
Grey ground, peach footprints and residential areas, yellow main roads and green parks.
Map style · Amsterdam
Colour & line studyWoodwork
Solid black engraved roads with open water outlines and black-and-white railway strokes.
Map style · Woodwork
Colour & line studyWijck
Black side streets and white major roads edged in black, with outlined water.
Map style · Wijck
Colour & line studyMapiful
Bold black arterial roads, grey local streets and faint outlines of actual building footprints.
Map style · Mapiful
LisbonKingrama
Cream paper with red street networks, yellow motorways, two green landscape tones and blue inland water.
Map style · Kingrama
RomeRome
Orange roads on cream paper, yellow motorway cores and sparse pink paths.
Map style · Rome
Colour & line studyAllcolors
A full colour hierarchy: purple motorways, green trunks, red primaries, green secondaries, yellow tertiaries and blue local roads.
Map style · Allcolors
Colour & line studyMedieval
Warm ivory, muted rose highways, ochre roads and Aniron town names.
Map style · Medieval
Colour & line studyMatte Tones
Muted green landscapes and blue water, ivory main roads and white streets without map text.
Map style · Matte Tones
ChicagoOverture Building Sources
Building footprints in colours that reveal their different data sources.
Map style · Overture Building Sources
Colour & line studyHistory Palimpsest
Past street patterns and map changes leave visible traces in the present.
Map style · History Palimpsest
San FranciscoEvery Line Ever
Many historical lines accumulate into an intricate portrait of a place.
Map style · Every Line Ever
BratislavaEvery Point Ever
Past mapping points build a city from a cloud of tiny marks.
Map style · Every Point Ever
KyotoDark skies
Midnight black, navy gold or deep teal for a luminous personal sky.
Sky colour studyLight skies
Polar white, ivory ink or ice blue for a light and airy star map.
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Map artwork © OpenStreetMap contributors · OpenMapTiles / OpenFreeMap · Natural Earth. River studies: Copernicus EU-Hydro. Forest studies: ESA WorldCover. Star catalogue and further source credits accompany exports in the studio. Route composition is illustrative; garden artwork includes schematic studies. Physical map photographs are rendered visualisations.