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

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

I’ve just released it on iOS and included a short demo showing how it works. I’d genuinely appreciate honest feedback from fellow geography and map enthusiasts.

App store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/geoswipe/id6758950534

Hello I am looking to buy maps that show the real political borders of the world through the centuries similar to europa style. Trying to start a new collection

I've come cross this in numerous maps of the USA, in many different contexts, and I Just don't understand why it seems almost universal.

Why do I see this so often?

I figure this is the place to ask this question. I want a map service where I can place a location of a historical figure, then add details such as duration, purpose, draw lines, and even linking to other actions would be great. Is there such a map service? Many thanks.

Hello! Does anyone of you have an answer to this post I made ? Have a nice day 😚

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I’m looking for a novel in which maps, cartography and geographical exploration play a central role.

Ideally, the book would have:

1. A strong sense of journey, discovery or movement through unfamiliar territory;
2. Maps or mapmaking that genuinely influence the story;
3. Memorable landscapes and a well-developed sense of place;
4. An adventurous, curious tone rather than a dark one;
5. A Goodreads rating of at least 3.9.
6. Publication within the past fifty years.

I have considered:

1. In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne
2. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
3. L’Abyssin by Jean-Christophe Rufin
4. The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
5. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
6. The Mapmaker’s Daughter by Katherine Nouri Hughes
7. Le Cartographe des Indes boréales by Olivier Truc

None of them seems to satisfy all these criteria completely. Are there any stronger alternatives?

Recommendations from any country or literary tradition are welcome, provided an English or French translation is available.

Science, design and cartography merge in MAPPA ANIMALIA, a visual project that reimagines the evolutionary relationships of animals as detailed map-like landscapes.

This map, Vespertilioninae - Land of Vesper Bats, contains every known living species of vesper bats I could find reliable taxonomic data for. Species are represented as cities, grouped into genera and tribes according to their evolutionary relationships.

MAPPA ANIMALIA is an ever-growing series of illustrations I’ve created that currently consisting of 16 different maps - each dedicated to a specific family in the animal kingdom.

Instead of political borders or geographic territories, these maps are structured around phylogenetic trees.

Tribes and genera replace countries, states and regions allowing viewers to explore the animal kingdom through a format traditionally used to understand geography.

Additional information includes conservation status, size comparisons between selected species and a species index.

I’ve spent roughly ten years developing and refining this concept, combining zoology, taxonomy, illustration and cartography into a single visual format.

Happy exploring!

Ok so im a worldbuilder and prepared this map for my fantasy world. But i am struggling to find any good tool that will let me edit this same map as to add layers and kingdom borders… any help is appreciated and thx in advance

this new resource guide to Atlas Earth contains several useful tools tip and answers many questions you may have. Try it out and let me know what you think i need opinions and maybe some ideas on what to add. https://aeresourceguide.com

Hello! I hope this is okay to post here. I'm looking for participants to crowdsource information on fantasy maps! If you are a lover of fantasy literature and can spare 10 minutes to fill out a survey, you could help advance the field of literary cartography.

If you're willing to share a little of your knowledge, please select a title from the reading list and answer a short survey about the map. Thank you for your time :)

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# Nava Raipur — 3D Building Map

Explore all 40 sectors of Nava Raipur (Atal Nagar) in 3D. Buildings are extruded to estimated heights. Use mouse to orbit, tilt, and zoom the 3D view.

I'm making an interactive map of interesting historical sites around Britain, from structures to battlefields! I've got a few projects up, looking to add many more, but would absolutely love some feedback, any criticism or ideas for more projects, or features to add on the website! Let me know what you think!

https://map.landscapesofhistory.co.uk/

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Where could I get all the study, research Material of Geography Subject.

Every time I needed a country shape icon for a dashboard, I ended up with either raw SVG/PNG files or full-scale map libraries that weren't designed for icon use cases.

So I built GeoIcons: 420+ icons covering 255 countries and 167 areas (states, regions, territories), shipped as native components for React, Vue, Angular, and vanilla JS.

Things I obsessed over:

• Fully tree-shakable. Import one country, ship one country. No registry, no runtime lookup.
• Every icon has proper accessibility built in (namespaced title IDs, aria labels).
• Consistent visual weight across all shapes. Chile and Russia are hard to make look like siblings.

Business model experiment: dual license. GPLv3 free for open source, paid commercial license for closed-source products. Icons always render either way, no lock-in or nag screens.

Site: https://geoicons.io
Giithub: https://github.com/getgeoicons/geoicons

Subdivisions and flags are in the plan for future release.

If you find GeoIcons useful, consider giving it a ⭐ on GitHub. It helps the project grow and lets others discover it. Happy to answer anything about the project.

Hi guys! I wanted to get better at dating old maps so I made a game for it: https://datetheglobe.jenniferjiangkells.com

It’s reverse-wordle style, where every wrong guess gives you the direction (too early/too late), temperature (within 2/9/24 years), and a piece of evidence that contradicts or narrows down the year (e.g. a country that didn’t exist yet). Maps are sourced from the public domain with the year redacted. It’s basically a gamified version of this xkcd chart.

My husband and I have been playing it ourselves and it low-key slaps, so I figured it’s time to share it. Would love to hear what people think of it - any feedback on the game mechanics, additions to the knowledge base, or suggestions for cool map sources to use!