A MapChart alternative where the link is the map
Color the regions of a map, name your own steps, and send an address instead of a file. Whoever opens it gets a blank copy of the same map and sees yours beside theirs at the end.
No ads, and no account.
Color the US map
Tap a state, pick a step. Rename the steps to whatever you are mapping.
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whereidlive.comDrag a place into a row, or tap one to move it.
whereidlive.comRate at least one state to share your map, download an image, or challenge someone.
- Mid-Atlantic
- Midwest
- Mountain West
- New England
- Pacific
- South
Feature by feature
| What you are doing | Where I'd Live | MapChart |
|---|---|---|
| Ads | None, ever | Third-party ads above the map |
| Steps to a shareable map | Color it, copy the address | Three numbered steps |
| Coloring a region | Tap it, pick a step | Pick a color, then click |
| The legend | Names the steps and selects them | A panel you fill in after |
| What you send | A link that opens blank | A downloaded image |
| Image export | PNG and SVG, four sizes | PNG |
| Every region listed by name | On each map's page | On the map only |
| What a crowd answered | Averaged and published free | Not offered |
| Two people's maps | Side by side | Not offered |
| Colors | Any color, up to 10 steps | Any color |
| Price | Free | Free |
| Basemaps | 109 | Around 70 |
| Congressional districts, NUTS, Westeros | None of them | All of them |
| Fill style | Flat color | Flat color or pattern |
Rating fifty places is the task, so the interaction is built around one region at a time rather than around a palette. Naming a step and using it are one control, because the thing that names your colors is the thing that selects them, and nothing has to be titled or exported before the map is ready to send.
What both do the same
Every basemap free, every feature free, and no watermark you cannot remove by paying for convenience rather than for the map. That model is MapChart's, it works, and copying it is deliberate.
The 109 maps here
US states, all 3,141 US counties and a county map for each state, the world at 233 countries, and 46 maps of a single country's own regions. Each one has a page listing every region by name, and a blank SVG that downloads and prints.
