Self-service tools: Create maps within minutes - no need to work directly with Google or wait for our permission, or have GIS training to get started.

Enjoy full control over how your map looks with Canva’s free map builder. Building a Geographical Regions of the World map infographic? It’d be best to highlight the different continents with different colors and to add matching labels.

Creating a locator map? You can exclude any details (like side streets and markets) that might confuse or disorient users while emphasizing the parts they need to see. With custom maps, you can emphasize specific map locations or data sets that best fits the story you want to tell. This is especially helpful when making custom maps for wedding invitations, event announcements, and other marketing collateral that includes wayfinding directions. When you make personalized maps, you can also personalize the journey for your visitors.

Highlight specific landmarks that can help guests find you better. Draw up a guide through less conventional, but more efficient routes. Make maps that only lead to your doorstep, with no other details to distract or confuse your visitors. With custom maps pointing the way to your business, your clients and partners don’t have to be navigators to where they need to go. Highlight a location by including text, coloring areas, and pinning marker graphics. Our intuitive map generator lets you easily add arrows and lines to guide map readers to the right locations. Or generate city or regional maps when you visit new locations. Create geographical maps to document your travels and add notes and memos for each location. Make locator maps to show customers how to get to your store or office, and print these on flyers and posters or post them on your website or social media. Digital map makers are easy to use, often free, and give you plenty of room for customization.

Today anyone that needs to go anywhere can make custom maps to their location of choice, with any context and information they need, in any format they understand best. In the old days, mapmaking was the exclusive purview of cartographers.

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