MapChart Plus is the full map-making experience—with more advanced features that let you save maps and your favorite colors to your account, no ads, extra themes and more. But first, a bit of a backstory. Requested by you MapChart has been around since 2014, and it has always been free to use. Millions of users have used it to create their own custom maps for their projects, their work, or just for fun. All this time, there has been one request that periodically comes up: Can I create an account with MapChart to save all maps that I create? Building this has been on my radar for a long time ..read more

As I said in a previous post, Flutter was my choice for creating an almost identical clone of the website into an iOS and Android app. The promo video for MapChart’s mobile app. This post lists some advantages and drawbacks I stumbled upon while developing the app. It is not meant to be a full-fledged review of Flutter; some of these are pretty random. It is targeted mainly to fellow developers, that may consider using Flutter for their projects. Indeed, being mainly a web developer, my experience with mobile app development was fairly limited. MapChart is the only app I have ever published o ..read more

I’m super excited to let you know that the MapGame mobile app for Android is now here! For the past month or so, I’ve worked hard to bring the fun of MapGame to your phone. It’s compatible with all modern Android devices, and you can download it today from the Play Store: Play Store link. The MapGame app is just like the website game, but now it’s easier to play anytime, anywhere. Here it is in action: Playing today’s game to find the hidden country. Each day there’s a new game where you figure out which country is hidden on a world map. The hidden country is the same for everyone, either on m ..read more

If you’ve enjoyed word-guessing games like Wordle, MapGame takes a similar concept but spins it with a global, world map twist. As a big fan of both Wordle and geography games myself, I found a fun way to combine these passions and make learning about the world more accessible and enjoyable for everyone. So, how does it work? Well, it’s pretty simple: Every day, a new game pops up asking you to guess a hidden country on the world map. You have 10 lives. You get the first hint and try to guess the country. Hints are things like “The country is west of Congo” or “Its flag has yellow in it”. Ev ..read more

Making a map chart in Google Sheets might feel like too much work. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a tool that turned your sheets data into visually appealing, easy-to-understand maps? Well, allow me to introduce you to a solution – a new Google Sheets add-on: MapChart! The MapChart for Google Sheets add-on integrates the website‘s most important map-making features into Google’s popular spreadsheet tool. It is all about simplicity and clarity, and it’s here to make your life easier. If you have ever needed to visualize geographic data or display the spread of your organization across t ..read more

A few months ago, one of MapChart‘s users, who is also using Airtable every day, suggested creating an Airtable extension with similar functionality: A request from a MapChart user. At the time, I had seen Airtable pop up here and there in my social feeds, but I hadn’t ever used it myself. After playing around with it, and checking out its extension API documentation, I decided to have a try at developing a MapChart extension for it. So, I am now excited to announce that MapChart for Airtable is now available on the Marketplace:  Creating maps and visualizations can be a time-consuming a ..read more

If you’re a fan of alternate history, you’ll love MapChart. It has the tools you need to create custom maps, perfect for exploring “what if” scenarios and imagining how the world could have looked differently. MapChart as an alternate history map maker Craft your own versions of how the world could have been with a few clicks. Choose from a variety of map templates, including a world subdivisions map, a Hearts of Iron IV states and provinces map, a Europa Universalis map, and a “War Games” map, which is divided into thousands of hexagons. You can then color the various provinces, add a legend ..read more

MapChart brings a new view for the traditional world map: a map centered on the Pacific Ocean! We are all used to the world maps we see everywhere being centered on the prime meridian, which runs through the location of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. This is a familiar view of our world, and a map you can easily make with the simple World map page on MapChart: A world map showing the United Nations geoscheme divisions. However, this is completely arbitrary, and nothing prevents us from having a Pacific-centered world map. Indeed, you can now create a map centered around the Pacifi ..read more

MapChart lets you create a map with patterns, like dots, stripes, etc., instead of simple colors for a while now. It is a useful feature that you can use to easily show countries/states that share a common property in your data: Countries with more than one dominant religions are drawn with light or thick stripe patterns. They can also help in case you need to print your map, and can only use black and white color variations: Using stripes and dots on this black and white map makes it ready to print. How can I add a pattern to the map? Follow these steps to add a pattern to a country on your m ..read more

The COVID-19 statistics world map has been a useful tool that uses MapChart’s abilities to visualize data on an informative world map. You can learn more about the basic usage of this tool in a previous blog post. Now, there are four new features that let you improve and optimize the final map and its data: 1. Check the top 20 and bottom 20 countries (or states). First, you can now use the buttons below the map’s settings to quickly check the top 20 and bottom 20 countries or states for the selected statistic on the selected date. The top 20 countries table. Use this for quick reference, inst ..read more