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Choose a neighbourhood, city or travel destination. Preview your map for free, then buy the PDF and PNG files when you are ready.
Create your map ↑Search for a place and select an area on the map. Set the paper size, orientation and scale. Zoom into the preview to check street names.
PDF and PNG together cost 10 USD. Pay once, with no subscription. Taxes appear at checkout. Physical printing and shipping are not included.
RefundsBrowse ready-made maps from cities around the world or create your own area. Catalog pages use the language of their region.
Maps →Choose A5–A0, Letter, Legal or a custom size. Print at 100% to preserve scale. The PDF contains a raster image. Use the link in your purchase email to download your files again.
A useful printable map starts with its purpose. A few streets may be enough to show the surroundings of an address, while a city overview needs major roads, neighbourhoods and geographic landmarks together. Search for a place, move the map and adjust the selected frame to the area you want to include. Searching for a district does not mean that the exported rectangle is automatically clipped to its official administrative boundary.
Before generating your map, decide where you will read it. A small sheet carried on a trip needs different framing from a large print viewed on a wall. Keep recognisable junctions, parks or stretches of waterfront within the frame when they help you understand the location. Reduce empty surrounding space where possible, but check that important places near the edges have not been excluded.
A neighbourhood map gives individual streets more room than a whole city placed on the same sheet. When the selected area expands, labels must share a limited amount of printed space. High resolution alone cannot make every street name readable on a small city overview. Coverage, label density and final paper size all matter.
For a local visit, focus on the streets around the area you want to explore. For a broader city map, the relationship between districts and main roads may be more useful than every small lane. You can also browse the ready-made map catalogue. Read the coverage description and inspect the actual preview to confirm that your destination is included before choosing a map.
A4 is convenient for a portable reference; A3 provides more space for the same area. Landscape orientation can suit a long waterfront or an area stretching east to west. Portrait can work better for a narrow north-to-south extent. Changing orientation is a reason to check the selected frame again, especially around its corners.
Zooming into the preview is useful for inspecting detail, but it does not show how large the text will feel on the final sheet. Before ordering a large physical print from a print shop, try a section at its intended size. Check printer margins, avoid cutting off map edges and keep the source attribution visible. makemap supplies digital files, not paper prints or frames.
A scale of 1:10,000 means that one centimetre on the correctly sized print represents 100 metres on the ground. Printing that document at a different size changes the relationship. Use the actual-size or 100% option when you need to preserve the specified physical dimensions. A fit-to-page setting may enlarge or reduce the document to match the printer’s available area.
Print density does not create missing geographic information. At a target density of 300 pixels per inch, an image ten inches wide needs 3,000 pixels across. That calculation describes size, not a guarantee of readable labels. Enlarging a low-detail image or changing its DPI metadata cannot reveal street names that were absent from the source. Inspect the generated details and the output specifications before purchasing.
PDF is useful for keeping a defined page size when printing or sending a file to a print shop. PNG is useful when you want an image to open on a screen or insert into a document. Both formats are included with the map purchase. The current PDF contains a raster map image; it is not an editable vector street network and will not remain infinitely sharp at every zoom level.
If you insert the PNG into another application, check whether that application compresses images or changes their dimensions. Excessive enlargement can make labels look soft. For printing the PDF, using the original document avoids unnecessary image conversions. Keep the original downloads so that later copies do not depend on a screenshot of the preview.
First examine the entire frame, then zoom into several locations: dense streets, the outer edges and the names that matter for your intended use. If the selected place is wrong or important details are difficult to read, adjust the area and generate a new preview before paying. A preview lets you judge the actual result rather than relying on a resolution label alone.
Previewing is free; full-size PDF and PNG downloads require payment. Use the buy button to continue to checkout and enter an email address you can access. That address helps you return to the purchased map later. Save your download link and keep private access links out of public posts. Use a printed map as a geographic reference, rather than as live navigation, current road-closure information or an official land-survey document.