Custom map poster maker

How to use it

1. 1

   Pick the place or upload your route

   Search for your city or type coordinates, or upload a route’s GPX, KML or GeoJSON file. Drag the poster map to frame it and zoom with the wheel, a pinch or the buttons.

2. 2

   Make it yours

   Choose one of the six map styles, the street detail, the typeface and the text. The title, subtitle and coordinates fill in by themselves when you pick the place, and you can change them.

3. 3

   Pick the paper and download

   Letter, Tabloid, A4, A3, A2 or 50 × 70 cm, portrait or landscape. Press “Download PNG” or “Download PDF”: the map is redrawn in high resolution and you get the file in a few seconds.

Poster ideas

• Your city or neighborhood

  Where you live, where you were born or where you went to college, for the living room, the hallway or the kids’ room.

• A route you did

  Your first marathon, a stretch of a long-distance trail, a bike tour or a hike, with the route drawn on top. Upload the GPX from your watch or the app you use.

• A gift with a story

  Where you met, where you got married or the city someone is moving to, with its exact coordinates underneath.

• A travel keepsake

  That city you loved, in the style that suits your home best: cream, black and white, blue ink or night.

• For a business or a classroom

  The neighborhood around your shop or office, or the area around the school to work on in class: streets, river, parks and the school’s spot.

How the poster is made

The map comes from OpenStreetMap, the free map made by millions of volunteers, through OpenFreeMap’s vector tiles. The six styles are made for posters: no labels or icons, just streets, water, parks and, in some, buildings, with major roads thicker than small streets.

What you see is what you download. When you press “Download”, a second, hidden map redraws the same framing with many more pixels, in pieces that line up to the pixel, and the poster is written in strips so it doesn’t fill up your device’s memory.

The tool writes the PDF itself: a single page at the exact paper size with the image filling the page, with no loss of quality. It doesn’t use the browser’s print dialog, which adds margins and headers and changes the size. Everything happens in your browser: neither your design nor your route is sent to Mapsfera.

Sizes and resolution

The pixels for each paper size in portrait (in landscape, the same the other way around). 300 DPI is what print shops ask for; 150 DPI looks fine from a distance and downloads much faster.

On a computer, every paper size comes out at 300 DPI. On a phone or tablet, up to Tabloid and A3 at 300 DPI; A2 and 50 × 70 cm come out lower (around 215 and 180 DPI: the tool tells you before you download), because an image that big won’t fit in its memory.

How long it takes depends on the device and the connection. In our tests (October 31, 2026), with the map already on screen, an A4 or A3 poster at 300 DPI took 1 to 3 seconds and a 50 × 70 cm one, 1 to 6, including with the processor slowed down to mimic a slow computer. On a slow connection it takes longer, because the high-resolution map requests its tiles.

Printing tips

The poster is yours: license

What you download is yours: you can print it, give it away, hang it in your business or sell it. Mapsfera adds no conditions and no watermarks.

The map data comes from OpenStreetMap under the ODbL license, which lets you use it for free, commercially too, as long as you say where it comes from. That’s why the poster always carries, in small print, “© OpenStreetMap contributors”, along with OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles, who prepare the tiles. Don’t remove or cover it when you trim or frame the poster.

The typefaces, Gabarito and Figtree, are under the SIL Open Font License, which lets you use them in images without asking. Your route is yours and never leaves your browser.