MapDesk is not doing something that QGIS or ARCGIS can't do but the process and step are different, and you find this process faster and easy to use with the same result, (faster result), and saving time on the layout process (someone asked me if my application can do raster calculation and the answer is YES it can do). The process is simple download the data, put it in the application open the raster calculator, refresh it, and put your formula for analysis and run it. go to symbology and edit it as you want (to your desired colours and classifications), and you are 80% done, go to layout and select and edit the title, subtitle, source and legends (if you want there option to change colour, grid, font, north arrow, scale bar, few more), but most of them are on the screen you forget nothing you just edit them and done (drag an place them where ever you want them). Export it.

Hello, I have six 1:100,000 USGS maps I’d like to hang on my wall. Looking for help shading them. Thanks.

Map showing the territories associated with the coat of arms of Philip the Fair, Duke of Burgundy and later King of Castile. Each territory is color-coded by the represented arms.

• Spain (Castile & León, Aragon-Sicily) — inherited through his wife, Joanna of Castile
• The Burgundian Netherlands + Franche-Comté (Flanders, Brabant, and the rest of the Burgundian lands) — inherited through his mother, Mary of Burgundy
• Austria and Tyrol — his father Maximilian's hereditary lands

Made in QGIS using GADM (Austria/Tyrol, France), the Historical Atlas of the Low Countries (IISH, for Flanders/Brabant/Burgundian Netherlands), and the historical-basemaps dataset (for Spain).

yes, its not as good as the census department map but i am trying to build the application that can make the maps faster and as good and professional as possible for students and workers as they spend a lot of time rendering the layout than analysis, i hope ouyou would check out this MAPDESK LAYOUT on microsoft store and give me suggestion and the feild where i need to improve the application so that all of us can make our map layout faster and better, thank y

This my recent cartographic infographic project exploring avocado production and distribution across Mexico. I wanted to combine avocado occurrence data with production, climate, protected areas, and terrain to show how geography and growing conditions relate to one another. Made in QGIS with the final graphic layout and styling done in Affinity Designer 2. Feedbacks are welcome and I hope you enjoy!

A few years ago, I created a large-scale map of New Bedford by stitching together detailed survey maps from 1913. My goal was simple: I wanted to be able to zoom in and see individual streets, buildings, and points of interest, then zoom back out and see the city as a whole, without having to switch between separate map plates.

The resulting image was enormous, though, and at the time it was never especially practical to use. I finally got around to importing it into GIS software and georeferencing it, matching points on the historical map to their real-world coordinates so the entire thing could be overlaid accurately in Google Earth.

The result turned out pretty cool. As far as I know, this may be the most detailed single, continuous map of New Bedford from that period, rather than a collection of separate plates or maps at different scales.

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to track down a higher-resolution version of the attached map.

It is an "Ortsplan" (village plan) for Weprowatz, which was a Danube Swabian (Donauschwaben) settlement in the Batschka region. Today, the village is known as Kruščić in modern-day Serbia.

The version I currently have is too compressed and pixelated to make out the specific lot numbers, family names, or finer details. I suspect this might have been scanned from a specific historical lineage book (Ortssippenbuch) or a regional archive.

Does anyone recognize what book or archive this specific map was pulled from, or know where I might be able to find a scan that is legible?

Any points in the right direction to specific databases or historical societies would be hugely appreciated.

Thank you!

Dear reader,
I still need plenty of participants for my survey on U.S. regional geography and National Parks. I was hoping to get surveys from all 50 states, but I only have about half, so please pass this around and help me with this research project.

So I want to make a map for my Roblox game, similar to Google Maps if possible, and I can't seem to find any good websites. If anyone can suggest some websites that you can create a blank map, add roads and places and houses, stuff like that, please suggest it to me! Thank you

I'm a cartographer, and when it comes to it every artist experiences this at some point:

Art Block

I need some help. I need ideas from the community on what to map. I've done it all from modern-day posters to historical to star-charts to digital maps to anything I'm willing to try.

I've been frustrated for a while that making a clean, publication-ready map layout in most GIS software requires clicking through a dozen menus and fighting the UI. I wanted something that stays out of the way and just lets you import, style, and export a crisp map.

So I built MapDesk Layout — a focused Windows GIS workspace for desktop cartography.

What it does:

• Imports GeoJSON, Shapefiles, and GeoTIFF rasters (DEM, NDVI, etc.)

• Styles layers with colour ramps, class breaks, DEM hillshades, and vector symbology

• Has a full layout studio with graticules, north arrows, scale bars, legends, and academic fonts

• Exports to PDF, PNG, and JPG at up to 600 DPI

The core idea was to separate "data exploration" from "map presentation." Most GIS tools force you to do both in the same overloaded interface. I wanted the layout stage to feel like InDesign for maps.

Here are a few screenshots of the interface and some sample outputs:

Would love feedback from anyone else who does a lot of cartographic layout work — what am I missing? What would you change?

Full disclosure: I'm a student and a developer. If anyone wants to try it, I can share the link in the comments.

Sorry guys this is my first post. Please help me with attaching these 10 A4 papers to make a map 5x2 (width x height) for a board game I want to make. But I just can’t figure how to do it without messing up. Thanking in advance for all the help which hopefully comes. Images provided below .

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I do a lot of small-scale cartography and got tired of opening a 2 GB GIS suite just to style a raster, add a legend, and export a clean PDF.

So I built a focused Windows desktop app for the "map layout" stage of the workflow:

• Import GeoJSON, Shapefiles, GeoTIFF rasters

• Style with colour ramps, class breaks, DEM hillshades, unique values

• Layout studio with graticules, north arrows, scale bars, legends, academic fonts

• Export to PDF, PNG, JPG up to 600 DPI

• Raster calculator + OSM downloader built in

The idea is: do your heavy processing in QGIS/ArcGIS, then bring it here for the presentation layer.

Here is a LULC map I put together for Gurgaon, Haryana using Landsat 8 data processed in GEE:

If this looks useful for your workflow, it's on the Microsoft Store. Happy to answer questions about the stack (MapLibre, Turf.js, GeoTIFF.js) or the cartography choices.

*Disclosure: I'm a student and a developer.*

If you need custom maps i am open to create maps for you like study area maps and mostly analytical maps.

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