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How to use Inked Atlas, what the marks on the map mean, and answers to common questions.

The atlas shows three of Anna B. Meyer's sheets of the World of Greyhawk, numbered 26 to 28. It works on a computer, a tablet or a phone.

Using the atlas

Move around the map

  • Drag with the mouse to move the map.
  • Scroll with the mouse wheel to zoom in and out around the pointer. If you'd rather the wheel scroll the page, set Settings → Preferences → Scroll wheel to "Ctrl + zoom"; then hold Ctrl (⌘ on a Mac) while you scroll to zoom.
  • The buttons at the bottom right: + and − zoom in and out, Reset view (the crosshair) shows the whole map, and the last button turns full screen on and off.

On a phone or tablet

  • Drag with one finger to move the map.
  • Pinch with two fingers to zoom in and out.
  • Double-tap to zoom in where you tap.
  • Tap a hex to select it.
  • On a phone, the menu button (three lines, top right) holds the year, About, Credits, Help, Support, Settings and Sign out.
  • On a phone, the info panel, Atlas Lore, Style and Layers slide up from the bottom. The tab on a panel's top edge slides it down out of the way and back up.

What changes as you zoom

The box at the bottom left shows the scale and the band you are in. Each band draws more detail than the one before:

  • Realm: the view is more than 450 miles across. Whole realms, mountain ranges, forests and the largest cities.
  • Province: 150 to 450 miles across. Towns and villages appear, then their names, and the marsh and swamp symbols begin.
  • Region: 30 to 150 miles across. More symbols, and places known only from the published canon.
  • Local: under 30 miles across. The finest detail, down to the fields round settlements.

Hexes

The map is divided into hexes 30, 6 and 1 mile across, measured from one flat side to the other. The grid changes size as you zoom.

  • Turn the grid on with Layers → Hex grid → Hex outlines, and each hex's name with Hex IDs. To have them on every time the map opens, use Settings → Preferences → Defaults on open.
  • Click a hex, or tap it, to select it. The info panel opens on the left, or at the bottom on a phone.
  • Click the selected hex again to zoom into it. This happens only while Auto-zoom to selection is on in Preferences; the panel's own zoom button always works.

Find a place

  • Type in the search box at the top, or press / to jump to it. Results appear after two letters.
  • It finds Anna's named places (cities, towns, villages, hamlets, forts and other sites), regions, mountain ranges, forests and rivers, and hex IDs such as EX71, EX71.19 or EX71.19.05.
  • Pick a result with a click, or with the arrow keys and Enter. A place opens the info panel on that place.
  • Places known only from the published canon are not in search yet.

Learn about a place

The info panel (top left) shows the selected hex or place:

  • its realm, its hex and position;
  • the nearest places, with distance and direction;
  • the realm's capital, and how long the journey from it takes on foot and mounted (by road where that is quicker);
  • the roads, rivers and river crossings;
  • the climate and the land, and the mix of terrain in the hex.

A line that says "no canon source yet" has no published Greyhawk source behind it so far.

Atlas Lore: every name in the panel is a link. It opens Atlas Lore on the right, with what the atlas and the published canon say about that realm, place or river, and the sources at the foot of the page. Use the back arrow to return, Show on the map to go there, and Esc to slide it away.

The panel's buttons:

  • Zoom to 6 mi, Zoom to 1 mi or Centre here.
  • Copy a link to this view, to send someone the place you're looking at. They need an account to open it.

Press Esc or the ✕ to close the panel.

Measure a distance

  • Hold Shift and drag from one point to another. The line shows the distance, and the travel time at your pace.
  • Set the pace in Settings → Preferences → Travel pace: on foot, mounted, by wagon, or off.
  • The line stays on screen until you click the map or press Esc.

Measuring needs a keyboard for now, for the Shift key. The ruler measures a straight line at your pace. The info panel's journey from the capital follows the roads at the published canon's rates, so the two can differ.

Choose the year

The 576 CY / 591 CY switch at the top (in the menu, on a phone) chooses which year the map shows. It changes the realms, their borders and capitals, and which canon facts apply. A fact true only in the other year is shown faded. The choice is remembered in this browser.

Change the look and the layers

The two buttons on the right-hand edge of the map open panels:

  • Style: Watercolour (the default) or Inked Black and White.
  • Layers: switch parts of the map on and off.
    • Physical: Mountains, Hills, Forests, Scrub, Wetlands, Rivers & lakes, Flow arrows.
    • Human: Settlements, Roads & trails, Borders, Political fills, and the published canon's own woods and features.
    • Labels: Regions & features; Settlements & points of interest.
    • Hex grid: Hex outlines and Hex IDs.

Your style and layer choices are remembered in this browser.

Your settings

The gear at the top right opens Settings:

  • Preferences: distance units (miles, kilometres or leagues), the coordinate format, the travel pace, what the map shows when it opens, the scroll wheel, and reduced motion.
  • Profile.
  • Email & password.
  • Export & delete.

Sign out is at the bottom right of the map.

Keyboard

  • / goes to the search box.
  • Arrow keys and Enter choose a search result.
  • Esc closes a window, then the search, then the measuring line, then the info panel.

Map legend

Places

A dark dot with a light ring is a settlement. When the map is zoomed out, only cities and metropolises show, drawn this way.

Zoomed in further, roughly a province's width or closer, each settlement gets Anna B. Meyer's own symbol, from her atlas's legend:

  • The shape shows the size:

    symbol population
    metropolis over 25,000
    large city 10,000 to 25,000
    small city 5,000 to 10,000
    large town 2,000 to 5,000
    small town 200 to 2,000
    village 60 to 200
    thorp or dorf under 60

  • A toothed edge, like a cog, means the place is walled. A plain edge means it is open.

  • The ring's colour shows its standing:

    • red: the capital of a realm;
    • orange: a provincial centre;
    • yellow: a local centre;
    • blue: a free city or town.

  • Grey means ruined.

  • Other symbols:

    • squares: structures such as castles, towers, keeps, temples and monasteries;
    • small marks: sites of religious, magical or other significance;
    • camps, forts and the marks of particular peoples, such as elven towns.

A small diamond is a place known only from the published Greyhawk canon, not from Anna's map. Diamonds show from the region band in, 150 miles across or less. A name in italics is a description rather than a proper name.

A dashed circle round a diamond (under 30 miles across) shows how far the place could be from where it is drawn. The canon often gives only a distance and direction from somewhere else.

A faded mark belongs to the other year. For example, on the 591 CY map, a fact recorded only for 576 CY.

Water

A circle with a cross is a swallow hole: a river with no way to the sea or a lake sinks underground here. It is drawn the same size at every zoom, so you can always find it.

Small arrows along a river show which way the water flows. Turn them off with Layers → Flow arrows.

Roads and borders

  • Roads are drawn wider the more important they are: primary, secondary and tertiary.
  • Trails are thin lines, solid, dashed or dotted by kind, as Anna drew them.
  • Borders are dashed lines between realms.
  • Political fills tint each realm in its own colour, a little stronger just inside its border.

Fine diagonal hatching is land inside a border whose owner isn't named on Anna's map.

The land

The mountains, hills, forests, scrub and wetlands are drawn from symbol art by the artists named in Credits, at the top of the map. Each can be switched off in Layers.

Selecting

  • A faint lavender outline follows the hex under the pointer.
  • The selected hex has a stronger lavender outline and a light lavender fill.

Common questions

Why do I need an invite?

Inked Atlas is in beta and opens by invitation. Ask the person who invited you for an invite code; each code makes one account. Then press Create an account on the front page and enter the code.

I forgot my password

On the front page, type your email address and press Forgot your password? We email you a link. Open it in the same browser, and Settings opens where you can choose a new password without the old one, for 15 minutes.

If you made your account with Google or Discord, use that button instead. You can also give that account a password the same way.

Is it free?

Yes. Accounts are free, and no feature costs anything. Development and hosting are supported by voluntary contributions on Patreon. Contributions don't unlock any map content.

Who made the art? Is any of it AI?

  • Cartography: Anna B. Meyer.
  • Symbol art: Laurent Bellec.
  • Textures: Stamen Design.
  • Canon references: Canonfire!, the Greyhawk community site, among others.

Every piece of artwork in Inked Atlas is made by credited human artists. No AI-generated imagery, ever. The full list, with licences, is under Credits at the top of the map.

Is this official Greyhawk?

No. Inked Atlas is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.

What does "no canon source yet" mean?

That line has no published Greyhawk source behind it so far. The atlas fills in what Anna's map shows and what the published canon records, and never invents the rest.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes. Drag with one finger to move the map, pinch to zoom, double-tap to zoom in, and tap a hex to select it; the panels slide up from the bottom, and the menu button at the top right holds the rest. Measuring distances needs a keyboard for now. If something misbehaves on your phone, email admin@inkedatlas.art with the phone and the browser you used.

What happens to my data if I delete my account?

Settings → Export & delete → Delete my account removes your account and everything kept with it, your settings included, at once and for good. Export isn't available yet. The Privacy Policy has the details.

Something looks wrong on the map

Email admin@inkedatlas.art with the place and what you saw. A link from Copy a link to this view helps.