So funktioniert der Printmaps Landkarten-Editor

1. Karte designen

Verschiedene Kartenstile

Größe der Karte

Karte kippen und drehen

2. Inhalte hinzufügen

Route zeichnen

Datei hochladen (GPX, KML, GeoJSON)

Punkte hinzufügen

Länder, Regionen oder Gemeinden einfärben

3. Karte herunterladen

Hochauflösende Karten

Karten mit Ebenen

PNG, PSD oder SVG/AI-Druckdaten

Weltweite Kartografie in allen Maßstäben

Wir bieten Kartografie in allen Ländern der Welt und in allen Maßstäben. Zoome so hoch oder tief wie du möchtest.

Schiebe die Karte mit deinem Cursor herum, um den richtigen Kartenausschnitt zu bestimmen. Achtung: die maximale Dimension einer Printmap ist 133x133cm. Vergiss nicht, den Kartenausschnitt zu sperren sobald du den richtigen gewählt hast. So kann es zu keinem versehentlichen Verschieben kommen.

Wähle deinen Kartenstil

Deine Karte, dein Stil. Wähle zwischen vordefinierten Kartenstilen, von einer Geländekarte zu Winter- und Stadtplan-Stilen sowie Übersichtskarten. Dazu die Kartenstile von Komoot.de. Bikemap.net und der beliebten App CityMaps2Go.

Gestalte selbst

Adaptiere dein Kartendesign, indem du einzelne Elemente der Karte wählst oder abwählst (Checkboxen).

Kippe und drehe die Karte

Rotiere die Karte, um den Kartenausschnitt am besten in Szene zu setzen. Gib der Karte zusätzlich Perspektive, indem du sie auf bis zu 60° kippst. Das ist Ideal für die Darstellung von Immobilien, Lagepläne von Hotels oder Restaurants oder Stadtspaziergänge. Beachte: Gekippte und gedrehte Karten sind aus technischen Gründen nicht als SVG/AI verfügbar, nur als PSD oder PNG.

Draw a route

Want to include a route in your map? It’s as easy as using our magnetic drawing tool. More into freehand? No worries, we support that as well. In the “Easy Mode” you can draw routes by entering the destination points in the search bar. In the “Expert Mode” you can draw by clicking on the destination points on the map. In both modes you can draw either straight or arc lines, or draw a line that magnetically snaps to existing roads. Adjust the thickness and color of the line. Decide to show the travel mode icons (plane, train, car, walking, cycling, ship) or hide them.

How to upload recorded routes to the map  

Have a GPX or KML you want to be included in your map? No problem, you can upload as many as you like and have them displayed on your map.

Under the “Upload File” button you’ll find the option to upload GPX, KML or GeoJSON files to the map. This way you can visualise your recorded route on a high resolution printmap. An easy way to print a gpx map.

Create a map with pins and labels

Plot single Point of Interests on the map by dragging and placing them on the map or enter their exact location in the spreadsheet. Easily adjust their sizes and choose from a number of colors and icons to style them.

Map with custom pins

Pick of the standard markers and labels or upload your own custom pins. Find and download custom pins online or create your own. Map with your business logo or any other image you would like to display on the map. Note: minimum size for the custom pin image is 100x100px.

Mapping multiple locations

Plot multiple addresses at once on the map by pasting the locations list in the spreadsheet. Easily copy and paste from Excel.

How to color different countries, regions or cities on a map

With the Printmaps editor you can color different areas by placing a geographic shape on top of them. Choose administrative areas (countries, municipalities, regions) from our database. Highlighting countries on a map becomes easy, just color the countries on the world map. Note: so far it’s not (yet) possible to color whole continents at once.

Do you want to give the surroundings of the area a different color? Click invert. You can change both the color and the transparency of the shape. Pick one of the standard colors or enter the HEX code or RGB values of the color you would like to display!

The perfect feature to help you highlight your destination for instance when you create a travel map for your photobook.

Layers List

The Printmaps editor works with content layers. Layers can contain for instance the text labels, the route or a colored shape. As in other editors such as Photoshop and Illustrator, you can move the layers around. Select one layer and drag it on top to display it over the other. When you place your cursor on a layer in the layers lists, it lights up on the map. This way the different layers are easy to find, and you can remove, hide, edit or replace them.

Download the map as SVG or PSD file and you will remain these content layers you added and the other content layers the map contains (hillshading, roads, buildings, …). The labels are displayed with clear names when you open in Photoshop or Illustrator.

Say, you want to move a label around – no problem. The content below the label won’t be affected. Good start as GIS map layers.

PNG map

In case you won’t need map layers after downloading the map; you can choose to download a simple PNG file. Does your map still need a finishing touch? Obviously, it remains possible to add extra details to the map with other editing programs after downloading! Perfect for a travel map in your photobook or any other simple map for print or online use. Note: maps with a side length longer than 220mm are not available as PNG.

PSD map

For Photoshop users, a PSD (Photoshop Document) file comes in handy. Here you’ll remain the layers of the map and find them clearly named when you open the file in Photoshop (or Illustrator). Change for instance the colors of the rivers and drag the water layer up to show them op top in a colored country, add text labels in your favorite font.

SVG map

If you’re looking to download a SVG map the Printmaps editor might be a good option for you. SVG images and their behaviors are defined in XML text files. This means they can be searched, indexed, scripted and compressed. SVG’s are perfect basemaps to create interactive maps.

Note: Tilted and rotated maps are not available as SVG.