Personalised travel map print — all your trips together

A travel map: the world drawn in dots, their home town marked with a little house, each trip linked to it by an arc and numbered, with the year, then the number of trips, countries and continents and the kilometres travelled together. It suits a dating or wedding anniversary, a retirement or a couple who have everything, and it is made to order.

Type the place — a city, an island, a lake, a region — and click “Search”: it lands on the map and its name goes into the key. If you retype a place, it leaves the map until you search again, so that one name is never printed in place of another.

From two to twelve. Any more and the key would no longer fit on a 30 × 40 cm print without dropping below a size you can read from across the room. The same place can appear twice, for two trips: the two markers sit side by side, each linked to its spot.

Each trip counts as a journey there and back from your home, as the crow flies: the shortest distance across the globe, not the route you actually took by train or plane. So the figure is a good rough guide, always a little under the distance you really covered.

They are the countries and continents of the places you travelled to, your own country included if one of your trips took you there. Continents follow the United Nations geographic regions: Central America and the Caribbean count as North America, Turkey is in Asia, and an overseas region counts towards the continent it lies in — Guadeloupe in North America, Réunion in Africa. On the print, each continent has its own colour (the arc, the marker and its number in the key), and the small dots under the continents figure are the colour key.

Set to Automatic, it shows Europe when all your places, home included, fit on its map — from Iceland to the Caucasus, from the Canaries and Morocco to the North Cape — and the world as soon as one goes further: on the whole world, eight European trips would fit under a thumb. You can always choose the world; Europe only when everything fits, otherwise a trip would be drawn off the map. The world runs from Tierra del Fuego to Svalbard: a trip to Antarctica sits on the bottom edge of the map.

The land comes from Natural Earth, a public-domain map of the world, redrawn as a grid of dots; an island too small to land on a dot still keeps one. Places are found with OpenStreetMap. Borders are not drawn: only the land and your trips.

Yes: the preview is composed by the same editor as the print, and a “Check your poster” screen opens before it goes into your cart. The greyed-out trips and home town are only an example: they disappear as soon as you put your first place on the map and are never printed.

A4, 30 × 40, 40 × 60, 50 × 70 and 70 × 100 cm: standard frame sizes, easy to find. Optional wooden frame on the A4 and 30 × 40, in black, white or natural, with acrylic glass; the larger sizes ship rolled, to frame at home.

250 g/m² satin matte paper, lightfast pigment inks. Printed to order in our workshop up to 40 × 60, by our printer beyond that. Shipped rolled, in a sturdy long cardboard box; the A4 travels flat, in a stiff card envelope.

Yes. The print-ready file contains all five sizes, each as a PDF and as a 300 dpi PNG — ten files in all, by a download link sent after payment, to print wherever you like.

Your poster is dispatched within 48 hours, then delivered in six to seven days to Ireland and the rest of the EU (four to five in France) — to your home or a pickup point, home delivery only for the 50 × 70 and 70 × 100. For a fixed date, allow ten days outside France. The download link for the print-ready file is sent as soon as payment is confirmed.