Custom route maps · Houston, British Columbia
The roadsyou actuallydrove.
Twenty days. Twelve stops. Two thousand six hundred and twenty kilometres of real highway, drawn switchback by switchback onto paper worth framing.
Detail · 1:2 · Survey
What it is
Your trip.
Not a city
you like.
Most map prints are a street grid with a name underneath — the same product whichever city you pick. This is the other thing entirely. The line is your route, pulled from real road data, with the stops you chose and the distance you actually covered set along the bottom.
Twelve stops or two. Drive the whole way or fly a leg — a flown leg draws as an arc, the way it should. Nine styles, portrait or landscape, and the whole thing redraws while you watch.
- Drawn from
- Real roads
- Output
- Pure vector
- Projection
- Conic
- Made in
- Houston, BC
Every competitor is locked to Web Mercator, because they buy their maps as pictures. We draw ours from the data, so we get to choose the projection a printed atlas would use.
Five palettes
One trip,
five ways.
Every poster here is the same journey. Only the palette changes — so what you're choosing between is a mood, not a different map.
Detail · Timberline · Inside Passage
How it works
Three steps.
About ten minutes.
Add your stops
Towns, parks, campgrounds — including the ones with no road within half a kilometre, which is most of the good ones. Reorder until the trip reads right.
Choose how it looks
Five palettes, four typefaces, composed as sets rather than a dropdown of everything. Pick the size first; the canvas locks to that shape.
We print and ship
Stored as a design document, not a flattened picture — so a reprint in ten years comes out identical, and moving one label is a re-run, not a rebuild.
Sizes & prices
Priced by the paper.
Type and line weights are set per size, so a small print isn't a big one shrunk. Every size is composed for its own shape.
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How do I pay?
Design your map and send it through. We confirm the details, quote the shipping and invoice you before anything goes on press — nothing is charged automatically. Card checkout is coming; until then a real person reads every order, which for a print shop is how it has always worked.
What's it printed on?
Heavyweight uncoated archival stock with pigment inks. Matte, with tooth, and it doesn't glare under a window. Ask if you'd like a sample before committing.
Can I just buy the file?
Yes — a print-ready PDF at the size you choose, with real trim marks, so any decent shop can produce it. Fully vector, so enlarge it as far as you like.
What if I want a change after ordering?
Say so. The design is a document rather than a flattened image, so moving a label or changing a title is a re-run.
Do you ship to the US?
Yes, alongside Canada. Duties and timelines vary by destination and are confirmed before anything ships.
Why this exists
We made one
for our own
trip first.
Journey came out of a print shop in Houston, British Columbia. The first map we drew was our own — twenty days, twelve stops, 2,620 kilometres to Grand Teton and back, four kids in the truck. It's the poster at the top of this page.
We built it because the alternatives were a screenshot of a map app or a city print that could have belonged to anybody. A trip you took together deserves better paper than that.