A world map gives you the complete setting. A regional map gives you room for the roads, settlements, landmarks, and local stories that make one part of that world feel real. Nova Terra lets both maps come from the same editable source.
Start with the master map, select the region you want to develop, and use Local Map Zoom. Nova Terra rebuilds that area as a new full-canvas map instead of enlarging a screenshot. The vector coastline, rivers, labels, and high-resolution map symbols are transformed into the regional workspace with zero resolution loss.
One master map, many regional maps
The master project remains your geographic source of truth. Each regional map becomes a separate project that can develop its own visual hierarchy without forcing those choices back onto the world map.
1. Save the master map
Before creating a region, save the complete world map normally. This gives you a permanent master file to return to whenever you want to create another part of the atlas.
2. Select and generate a region
Choose Local Map Zoom and draw a fixed-ratio rectangle over the area you want to expand. Nova Terra regenerates the selected geography across the full map canvas while retaining editable objects and detailed source artwork.
3. Save the regional map as a new project
As soon as the regional map appears, save it with a new filename. The saved regional map is independent of the master, so changing font sizes, label spacing, symbol scale, title blocks, or decorative layout will not alter the original world map.
4. Restyle for the closer scale
A regional map needs a different balance of information. Increase settlement labels, add local roads and rivers, reposition the scale bar, introduce regional titles, and place additional landmarks that would have crowded the master map.
5. Return to the master and repeat
After saving the regional project, use Unzoom to return to the master map. Select a different kingdom, island chain, or frontier and save that region as another project. You can also reopen the saved master later and continue. Repeat the process until the world map has become a coordinated atlas of detailed regional maps.
Why the detail stays sharp
Ordinary image cropping stretches a fixed collection of pixels. Local Map Zoom works from Nova Terra's editable map data and original assets. Coastlines are regenerated, scalable paths remain editable, and high-resolution symbols are rendered for the new map rather than copied from a low-resolution crop.
That means the regional map can be exported at the same full resolution as the master. It is not merely a close-up—it is a new map built from the selected part of the world.
Build an atlas without rebuilding the world
Create the geography once. Preserve it in the master map. Then develop every important region at the scale its stories deserve. Nova Terra turns one large world-building project into an organized family of maps without forcing you to redraw the coastline or reconstruct the setting for every page.