Launched this week
Earthling Maps
The way to show where
9 followers
The way to show where
9 followers
Earthling Maps is for easily creating focused maps that live within stories, great for anyone creating newsletters, writing articles, making presentations, or posting on social media.
Hi, I'm Brian, the founder and creator of Earthling Maps, and I'm thrilled to announce its release!
I spent over a decade making maps and graphics for organizations like National Geographic, ProPublica, and MIT, and learned the hard way that making an attractive map to add context to a story is deceptively difficult and time-consuming, whether you're a mapping professional or just someone with a newsletter.
Earthling Maps is the answer to this: it's an app for people of all skill levels to easily create maps that live inside stories, that are tailored to your content, and that drop easily into where you already work. That includes Substack, Canva, WordPress, Figma, MS Office, Adobe CC, Instagram, LinkedIn, Bluesky, your self-hosted CMS or website, and so on.
You'll make maps that make your message immediately more comprehensible and impactful by orienting your audience to your story. In the gallery, check out a few examples of what you can create—maps used in newsletters, websites, presentations, and on social media, adding context to stories in ways that words alone can't express.
Read more about it in the launch post (https://www.earthlingmaps.com/up...), try it out, and reach out with any questions or feedback!
Love how the maps stay contained inside the story flow instead of pulling readers off to a separate tab. That decision to treat the map as part of the narrative rather than a detour is really thoughtful design.
The focused map concept is such a smart move, so many map tools bury the actual location under layers of toggles and zoom controls. Loving how cleanly the embed feels inside a newsletter format.
Finally a map maker that doesn't feel like opening QGIS. Snapped a small bookshop map together in like five minutes and it actually looked like it belonged in my newsletter.