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Make a clean map from a URL, or describe it in plain English. Copy the link, drop it in a story, a README, or a newsletter. No JavaScript. No GIS.

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For developers

Build maps with a single URL, or POST your values as JSON or CSV. Stable, cached SVG and PNG embed anywhere an image tag works — no JavaScript, no SDK, no tile servers.

Perfect for production sites, dashboards, automated reports.

For journalists & storytellers

Describe your story in plain English. AI generates the map with a live preview, then refines conversationally — "make Ukraine blue", "add airports", "highlight shipping lanes". Save your work into projects, copy a permanent URL, embed anywhere.

For AI agents

One line of MCP config and Claude, Cursor or VS Code can build a real map from your data — and hand back a URL you can embed, not a throwaway image file.

Why teams pick maproll

Live in an image tag

Cold renders under 300 ms. Cache hits under 50 ms. One URL becomes an image. No SDK to load.

Looks published

Six modern themes, three color scales, four ways to bin the data. Borders stay clean when the map simplifies.

Borders that don't fall apart

Stable region IDs and the right level of detail for the size you ask for, so a thumbnail and a full-page render both look right.

Trade and routes, not just countries

Great-circle flows, or sea routes that thread Suez, Panama and Malacca. Style with color, dashed lines, arrows.

Icons when a color fill isn't enough

30 built-in icons — airports, factories, hospitals, ports, and more. Optional NATO military symbols when the story needs them.

One URL. Anywhere an image works.

READMEs, Notion, newsletters, dashboards, web apps. One URL, one image tag.

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A single URL is the whole API

Every map is a URL. This image was rendered live by maproll — copy the URL into any image tag and you have a map.

GET /map.svg?scope=world&data=US:200,CN:150,DE:95&theme=dark

Built for real work

Journalists & newsrooms

Break news faster. Turn a story brief into a publishable visual in minutes.

Researchers & think tanks

Geopolitical, economic and logistics maps with the cartographic polish a report needs.

Developers & product teams

Reliable map endpoints you can use in production today, no GIS stack required.

Content creators

Beautiful maps for newsletters, reports and social media — not a spreadsheet heatmap.

More than country colors

Sea-aware routes and great-circle flows for trade, logistics and travel data — Suez, Panama and Malacca handled automatically.

Proportional symbols for dual-encoding two variables on one map.

North arrow, scale bar and graticule overlays — the cartographic polish a published report needs.

LATEST FROM MAPPED

The most recent maps

Births per woman by country, 2023

Two in three people live in a country below replacement

In 1950 the average woman had 4.9 children; in 2023, 2.25. 128 of 233 countries are now under the 2.1 that keeps a population steady.

Mediterranean migrant shipwrecks and crossing routes, 2014 to 2026

1 in 44 didn't survive the crossing

Of the people on the Central Mediterranean route who weren't turned back, about 1 in 44 died or went missing. And that is the floor.

Hours of compulsory class per primary school day, age 7, OECD 2024/25

Nearly six hours of class in Costa Rica. Three in Korea.

A 7-year-old in the OECD gets about 4.2 hours of class on a school day. Costa Rica timetables 5.7, Korea 3.1, and neither number ranks the school.

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