Bespoke mapping
If it has relief, we can build it.
Catchments, counties, ranges, islands, townlands. Sixty-odd commissions since 2014, for river trusts, visitor centres, schools, clubs and families.
How it works
Send an area. We send a scale, a size and a price.
There is no configurator here, because the first question is always geographic and it is always specific: how much ground do you want, and how much of it stands up? A flat catchment at 1:250,000 is not worth forming. The same catchment at 1:60,000, superelevated, is remarkable.
So we start with the data. We pull the open elevation model for your area, look at the vertical range, and come back with an honest recommendation — including, occasionally, that you would be better off with a map already in the collection.
Selected work
Four commissions.
A river trust
The Dodder, from source to city.
A catchment is a difficult thing to explain in two dimensions and an obvious thing in three. We built the full Dodder catchment for a group who needed to show landowners, schools and councillors the same object — where the water starts, what it crosses, and why what happens on Kippure matters in Ballsbridge.
- Area
- ~110 km²
- Scale
- 1:130,000
- Size
- 400 × 285 mm
- Run
- Editioned
A visitor centre
Bedrock, as an exhibit.
The Geological Survey of Ireland’s 1:500,000 bedrock mapping, printed in register with true elevation. Visitors put a hand on the Burren and the limestone story tells itself. It has since gone into classrooms across the country, which was not the plan but is the better outcome.
- Source
- GSI 1:500,000
- Scale
- 1:725,000
- Size
- 500 × 620 mm
- Use
- Permanent display
A mountaineering club
One range, at club scale.
A presentation piece for a club anniversary: their home range, superelevated harder than we would normally dare, so the routes read from the back of a function room. Engraved plate, unframed relief mounted on oak.
- Superelevation
- 1:4
- Finish
- Oak mount
- Quantity
- 1 of 1
- Lead time
- 5 weeks
A family
The valley they grew up in.
Most bespoke enquiries are not institutional. They are a townland, a farm, a stretch of coast, a glen where somebody spent every summer. Send a boundary or a place name and we will find the data and tell you honestly whether the terrain has enough relief to be worth forming.
- Minimum
- 1 piece
- From
- €180
- Lead time
- 4–6 weeks
- Data
- Open sources
Start here
Tell us the ground.
A boundary file, a set of coordinates, or just a place name and a rough area. We will come back within two working days with a scale, a size and a price — and tell you if it is not worth doing.