Exciting news!
The Prompt Cartography website just released a beta version of an all-new map design schema building tool. It lets you mix and mash up to four different inspirational, research-based, and evidence-informed map design styles from the Style Library, which currently has more than 40 styles available.
In other words: you can now build your own little cartographic hybrid in the lab.
Pick a few parent styles. Blend them. Merge them. Mash them up. Slide their influence levels around. Manually edit the design traits you like. Keep the restrained typography from one tradition, steal the color logic from another, borrow the layout habits of a third, and add just enough strange DNA from a fourth to make the whole thing feel alive.
This tool helps you build a more specific design brief. You can shape the palette, typography, symbol behavior, layout posture, interaction feel, and general map attitude before you ever ask an assistant to make anything. Then you can export your Franken-Map-Design as a Markdown file or JSON design schema and use it immediately in your next prompt.
That means your next mapmaking assistant can begin with something more like:
“Here is the design genome for this map. Respect the parent styles, but adapt the hybrid to the actual purpose of the project.”
That is a much better place to start.
Try it out today.
Shout out: this tool was actually built in the WebMapGPT Skunkworks Garage, but it has been posted on the Prompt Cartography website to celebrate the book's release next month. This way, even when the WebMapGPT website becomes obscure after the #365DaysOfMaps campaign ends -- its 15 minutes of fame are assuredly half over -- lifelong prompt cartographers, learners, and educators will continue to have access to it. :-)
Enough said. Check it out now, and start building the world's next epic map design today: