Color a map online

A map colorer, painter and highlighter in one

Most people looking to color a map online want one of three things: to highlight a handful of regions, to shade every region by a number, or to group regions into named categories. Create My Maps handles all three from the same editor, so you do not have to pick a tool before you know which one you need.

Coloring is direct. Click a region and it fills with the active color. Click again to change it. There is no layer panel to manage, no projection to configure, and nothing to publish before you can see the result.

Four coloring modes

Each mode is built for a different shape of data, and you can switch between them without losing your work.

Color from a spreadsheet instead of by hand

Clicking works well up to a few dozen regions. Past that, paste your data instead. Import a two-column list of region names and values and every matching region is colored at once, which is the difference between a five-minute job and an hour of clicking on a map with hundreds of districts or counties.

Region names are matched automatically, and anything that does not match is reported so you can correct the spelling rather than silently losing a row.

Export that is ready to publish

Download a PNG for slides, documents, reports and social posts, or an SVG when you need a vector you can scale without blurring or edit further in Illustrator, Figma or Inkscape.

Exports can carry a title strip, a description line, the legend and a source credit, so a map lifted straight out of the editor does not need a second pass in a design tool before it goes into a deck.

Popular maps to color

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Frequently asked questions