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3D-printed maps of any place on Earth

The street you grew up on, a mountain you climbed, the city where you met. Pick an area on the map and geoprint builds the land, the buildings with their roofs, the roads and the rivers as a model you can print at home.

For travellers, architects, hikers and anyone who wants a piece of a place on the shelf.

A 3D model of Kaptol in Zagreb with buildings, pitched roofs, roads and parks

At a glance

Area
Square or freeform
Tiles
With dowels and labels
Colours
One per part
Files
STL or 3MF
Plan
Included on every plan, the free one too.

What you can make

  • Any place

    Search for it, draw a square or a freeform area, and rotate it to the view you want.

  • The land, shaped

    Set the width, the base, how much the height is exaggerated and how smooth the terrain is.

  • The city on top

    Buildings with their roofs, bridges, roads, raised lawns, sunken streets and deeper rivers.

  • Colours per part

    One colour for each part; parts with the same colour share a filament.

  • Tiles that fit your bed

    Cut a big area into tiles with clearance, dowel holes and a label under each, mirrored so it reads from below.

  • Built from open data

    Open map and elevation data, put together into one printable model.

How it works

  1. Pick the place

    Search, then draw the area and rotate it.

    geoprint with Zagreb's Upper Town chosen on the satellite map, ready to be cut into four tiles, the print settings beside it
    Choosing an area on the satellite map.
  2. Shape and colour it

    Terrain, buildings, roads and water, each in its own colour, and tiles if it's bigger than your bed.

    geoprint's 3D preview: Zagreb's Upper Town cut into four tiles pulled apart, with part colours and tile settings
    The tiles view: the area cut into four, each in its colours.
  3. Export and print

    STL or a multi-colour 3MF, as one model or as tiles in a ZIP.

    Placeholder: Photo of a printed 3D map, its tiles fitted together, on a desk or a wall.

    The printed map, tiles together.

Tiles that line up.

A map bigger than your bed is cut into tiles that fit it. Each tile has a little clearance at its seams, dowel holes to pin it to its neighbours, and its label cut into the bottom, so the pieces go back together in the right order.

The underside of four map tiles, each with its label A1, A2, B1 or B2 cut into the bottom
The underside: each tile's label, mirrored so it reads from below.
0.15 mm
Clearance at each seam, so neighbouring tiles fit side by side. Change it to suit your printer.
Dowels
Holes in the seams for pins that line the tiles up and hold them together.
A1, B2…
A label under every tile, so you know where it goes.

Questions

3 layers · 0.20 mm
  1. Anywhere with map and elevation data: cities, villages, mountains, coastlines. Cities show the most detail, with buildings and their roofs.

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