Nova Terra
Cartography Engine

WEB-BASED MAP CREATION

A MAP MAKER FOR WORLDS, STORIES, AND PLACES.

Create editable maps for fantasy worlds, novels, tabletop campaigns, historical settings, and real places.Nova Terra combines landmass generation, biome logic, settlements, scale, routes, and print-ready export in one browser-based cartography engine.

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Use Cases

More Than a Fantasy Map Maker

Nova Terra is strong at fantasy cartography, but that is not the whole job. It is also built for book maps, worldbuilding systems, historical layouts, and real-place references where scale, route planning, and editable labels matter.

Antique fantasy world map created in Nova Terra

Fantasy Map Maker

Build kingdoms, wild frontiers, coastlines, borders, routes, and settlements in an editor designed for maps that keep changing as the setting grows.

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Regional novel map created in Nova Terra

Novel And Book Maps

Keep geography tied to the story. Adjust place names, route distance, and regional focus without redrawing the whole world every time the manuscript shifts.

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Nova Terra place information hover card showing worldbuilding details

Worldbuilding Maps

Map cultures, settlements, notes, population, climate, and travel logic in one editable system so the world stays coherent while you expand it.

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CREATE

Begin with terrain that feels discovered, not drawn.

Generate new landmasses in seconds, import a landmask when the silhouette already exists, or draw directly into the coastline by hand. Local map zoom lets you move from continental scale to regional focus without breaking the flow—or the logic—of the map.

GENERATE Build fresh worlds, step through seed history, and start at print-ready dimensions.
IMPORT Use sketches, reference images, and landmasks when the coastline already exists and needs to become a finished map.
REFINE Draw land, erase land, and pull focused local maps from a larger world without breaking scale.
Nova Terra terrain generator controls
Nova Terra landmask import view
Nova Terra river drawing tool
Nova Terra line and shape drawing tools
Terrain Generator

Generate endless, unique landmasses, set the world scale, and move from a blank canvas to a realistic coastline in minutes.

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Nova Terra isn’t a paint program. Labels, symbols, colors, scale, and backgrounds remain editable, so you can zoom in, add detail, restyle the whole map without starting over.
Nova Terra map symbols panel
Nova Terra auto stamp cleanup panel
Nova Terra place names panel
Nova Terra place information panel
Nova Terra settlement list panel
Map Symbols Panel

Place towns, castles, forests, and other map features, then move, delete, scale, or change color—across all stamps at once.

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POPULATE

Turn names into places, and places into a world with memory.

Create labels for cities and states automatically, or paste in your own names and generate them in batches. Then build each place out with notes, settlement details, and symbols that make the map feel inhabited at a glance.

NAME Nova Terra can suggest place names from a collection of thousands drawn from dozens of real and fantasy cultures. Or paste in your own and create all your labels at once.
DEFINE Attach notes, lore, and settlement details to labels and map points, then revisit them later through the settlement list.
ILLUSTRATE Draw from Nova Terra's huge symbol collection, or upload your own PNG stamps to place landmarks, forests, settlements, and visual detail across the map.
“I built Nova Terra because maps aren’t just pictures. The tool needed built-in scale, structure, travel time, biomes, and systems that make the world feel coherent.”

Doug Turner

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DEFINE

Give the world an internal logic: climate, biomes, scale, and distance.

World settings control moisture, regional focus, and biome behavior so the map reads as geography, not decoration. Regions stay dry, humid, coastal, inland, marshy, or severe in ways that remain consistent across the world.

CLIMATE Biome summaries follow your world settings, so regions read as dry, humid, coastal, inland, or severe in ways that stay consistent across the map.
MAP SCALE Distance tools stay in sync, so rulers, travel time, and scale bar all agree.
READOUT Hover cards show notes, population, and place details without crowding the map with extra labels.
Nova Terra country borders panel
Nova Terra map color controls
Nova Terra path distance tool
Nova Terra travel time and path measure tool
Borders

Paint countries directly onto the map, then let Nova Terra generate soft colored borders automatically. Adjust border color, opacity, blur, and width to create old-atlas style regional boundaries without hand-drawing every line.

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Nova Terra knows it’s a three-hour canoe ride through rough water from Ashhavn to Torngard. Or five hours on horseback. Or an easy twenty-minute flight for a dragon rider.
Nova Terra title block controls
Nova Terra texture overlay controls
Nova Terra universal ink controls
Nova Terra ray lines controls
Title Block

Create a polished title block with title, subtitle, cartographer details, and automatic Roman numerals. Drag it around, resize, and adjust whenever you like.

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04

FINISH

Prepare the map for use beyond the editor.

Export at the size you need, check print dimensions before you commit, and save working files you can reopen later. Nova Terra is built for maps that need to leave the screen cleanly.

EXPORT Export PNG at the size you actually need, from small web graphics to large print layouts.
PRINT SIZE Live print dimensions update as you work, so you know the output size before export.
SAVE FILES Save projects to JSON and reopen them later without rebuilding the map from scratch.
You do not have to buy blind. Open the free demo, build a map, and see how Nova Terra feels in your own workflow before you commit.
Nova Terra demo workspace showing a map in progress
Nova Terra demo terrain generator
Nova Terra demo symbols and labels tools
Free Demo Workspace

Open the Nova Terra demo page, launch the live app, and test landmass generation, labels, symbols, textures, routes, and PNG export before you buy.

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TRY THE DEMO

Start mapping for free and see whether the engine fits your process.

The demo is there to be used, not just glanced at. Open it in the browser, generate land, place symbols, add labels, test the visual controls, and export a PNG. If the workflow clicks, move to Nova Terra Full for save files, larger map freedom, and the advanced locked tools.

FREE Open the demo immediately and explore the mapmaking workflow without paying first.
CORE WORKFLOW Test generation, symbols, labels, color, texture, layout, routes, and PNG export inside the live app.
UPGRADE LATER When you want save and load, recovery restores, flexible canvas sizing, and the locked advanced features, step up to the full version.

A Cartographic Language

Built for Real and Fantasy Maps

Nova Terra is built for maps that need to stay editable while the world gets more complex. Landmasses, labels, borders, symbols, routes, scale, and color remain adjustable, so you can refine a continent into a regional map, revise a novel setting, or prepare a print export without rebuilding the work.

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Regional desert map created in Nova Terra