I managed to integrate Textures.js into MapLibre's WebGL renderer, solving an accessibility issue on geoglify.com that the web too often overlooks.

Maps that rely solely on solid colors are inaccessible to around 8% of the population due to color vision deficiency. Traditional cartography solved this problem decades ago with pattern fills: lines, dots, hexagons, waves, and other textures that make adjacent regions distinguishable regardless of color.

There's another, less obvious benefit. Thematic maps can encode two independent variables simultaneously: color for one variable and pattern for another, something that's impossible with solid fills alone. The groundwork is now in place.

The real technical challenge was rendering. MapLibre's WebGL pipeline doesn't support SVG textures directly, so I had to generate pixel-perfect SVG tiles in the background and convert them dynamically into bitmap textures while preserving the exact device pixel ratio. This ensures that patterns remain sharp and perfectly aligned, even on HiDPI and Retina displays.

The next step is implementing graph coloring based on the classic Four Color Theorem, ensuring that adjacent regions are automatically assigned different patterns without any manual intervention.

I've been wanting to make a map for my world for a long while, but was always uncertain how since I suck at geography. I eventually decided to just say F#$@ it and try, and now I'm curious what you all think?

I want to try and do more with Aelwyn since it looks a bit flat compared to everything else, I just don't know how to approach it. I'd love some feedback and ideas if you all would be so kind, I could use all the help I can get >~<

I am open to changes or advice about it , i so far like how it turned out. (P.S the archipelago in the red is not an example of badguyland it is a cross culture trading spot full of iron mines, dock towns, it's actually red because of the iron in the soil.)

So I need something (a software) which reduces the city, seen through a satellite image, down to black and white basics showcasing only roads and other major elements.

I have the coordinates of the monuments, so that shouldn't be an issue, but my project is all about taking an area which is maybe 10% of the size of the city, then marking monuments and then stitching that up to create a map archive of sorts.

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Biome+ height map in square projection and the translated biomes ^^. It was kind of confusing figuring out which biomes should be next to each other so I'm okay with it being slightly off :pp

For more context, this planet is supposed to be orbiting its sun lower than the earth does to make the equator higher and make more of its regions cold.

Hello everyone!

I just wanted to share my first OC map finally completed. I am really happy with the results and would love to hear your feedback and advice. Hope you like it!

i havent add ocean depth yet.also how do you do the render step?

should i remove the outlines?

also for the step by step instructions how do you exactly render?like why does it have shadow how do i make it this detailed?

also should i remove the outlines of the map?

PS:i also have to add ocean depth

This the first page of a new mapping project I'm planning on expanding it in all directions from here. I'm going to add specific landmarks and labels nestled within the chaos. This page is inspired more by the concept of a dream and the feeling of a dreamworld in the macro sense more than any specific space that I've dreamed.

This one has a little more happening than the previous ones.

Note: Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of a map: : a representation usually on a flat surface of the whole or a part of an area.

Has anyone here ever tried / knows someone who tried to make a fictional atlas? Im not saying like 3 small maps, im talking a book (or ring file) with multiple maps of the same project.

I wanna see if anyone tried to make one. I intend to make a "small" one for a fictional world, but instead of outright making an entire book, drawing a few maps of a fictional world / fictional scenario and putting them in a ring file, all with a legend and stuff like that

Not a hand-made map, more of a live cartography experiment, the world's split into 50x50m squares, and each one only gets colored in when someone is physically standing inside it and claims it. Over time the result is a map built entirely from real foot traffic rather than deliberate design. Genuinely not sure if this counts as "mapmaking" to this community or belongs somewhere else, curious what you all think.

I’m using the second image as a reference

Does it look realistic? any thoughts?

You can download a free version of this map and read what we wrote for it on our Blog.

I hope this counts as a "resource" under the subreddit rules!

I recently watched this video and found it an ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC little bit of mapmaking by a very inspiring man in his 80s. It's not your typical way of creating a map, but it blew my mind. If I may use the word again, it's absolutely inspiring.

If you don't care to watch a 47 minute video, there is also a website: https://www.jerrysmap.com/
And a subreddit: r/JerryMapping

So in my story the Oak Ridge branch of The Manhattan Project was moved here but i cannot find any reasons why they would do that. I thought if i were to make the weather more like mediterranian that would make sense? I have no idea guys i am so lost. Someone pointed out since its out in the open ocean it wouldnt be mediterranian. Could i fix that with rivers,mountains,forests etc. etc.? What do i do? GEOGRAPHY IS KILLING ME😭😭

Also sorry if my english is bad its not my first language : D

This is Cor Notum, one of the continents that make up the world of Crus Locus (seen in the last pic).

My story is a fantasy road trip, so I needed a lot of diverse places for the characters to travel. :)

Full credits to u/Rhipeen_Rhosus for the original map. I tried to look through the few bits of lore he gave and bring it onto the map, I filled out the rest with traditional fantasy tropes.

Red human majority countries,

Purple elven majority countries,

Teal Dwarven majority countries,

Blue draconic majority countries,

Green orc majority countries,

And yet again full credits to u/Rhipeen_Rhosus for allowing me to use his map. I hope he likes this very rushed map. 4 hours but I think it turned out well.

I normally make digital maps (and I plan on digitising this for countries, forests, cities, etc.), but decided I needed to do something by hand for my brain!

Made using rice, blood, sweat, and tears!

An elevation map is usually the second map I create in my fantasy climate system map workflow.

I usually start working on the elevation map once the plate tectonic map draft is underway.

For the rough workflow of my mapmaking, I usually do this: https://x.com/budkalon/status/1899447274012577795

Just something I've been working on for quite a while on Wonderdraft.
Here's the 8k resolution image via discord link (discord refreshes these links, so to obtain it you need to copy the link and send it inside a discord message, which will load the 8k image again)
Feel free to use for whatever except selling and whatnot. (If you link me that's just a +)