Mapholm

For writers

Know your world before your characters set out

Map the world your story happens in: its coasts, mountains and forests, the towns and the roads between them, at a scale you set. See how far the journey really is, then fly over it in 3D.

Open the example Start an empty world

Drawing Velmora

Velmora: six peoples, each with towns in a style of their own, and one heroine's journey across it, with the story's chapters in the notes of the places it passes. Click a place to read them.

What it does

A world that keeps your story straight

Distances you can trust

Set the map's scale and every road, river and coastline shows its length in kilometres, so a ride from the capital to the mountains takes as long as it should.

The panels

Places with their stories

Give every town and landmark a description and notes: who rules it, what happened there, what your characters find.

Notes for places

A map for your book

Save the world as a drawn map, inked on parchment, with its names, a compass rose and a scale bar: a PDF to print, or an SVG to take further.

Import and export

The 2D map

A map for the opening pages

The drawn map comes from the world itself, so it always matches your latest draft. Save it as a PDF or an SVG to print, or to hand to a designer.

Ideas

At your desk

  • Check the geography of a scene: which way the river runs, what lies beyond the pass.
  • Keep kingdoms, borders and capitals straight across a series.
  • Fly over the land by night or in the rain, to see what your characters see.
  • Change your mind: signed in, earlier versions of a world are kept to go back to.
  • Share the world with an editor or a co-writer by link.

Good to know

Your world, your way

Private until you share

A world is yours alone until you make a link for it, and the link stops working when you make it private again.

Yours to keep

Export any world as a file to keep, and its map as an image, an SVG or a PDF.

A book's world, in 3D

Erilea was made from Throne of Glass, with its story's events placed where they happen, book by book.

Map your story

Open Velmora to follow a story across a continent, or start from an empty sea.

Open the example Start an empty world

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