GW2 Cartographer

Web-based tool which generates high resolution GW2 maps; uses the official GW2 API tiles. There are three modes of generation:

• BMAP (basic map): simply assembles the tiles into a single high-res map
• IMAP (bmap + icons): adds all the important icons like renown hearts, waypoints, hero challenges etc.
• FMAP (bmap + icons + labels): adds all the map region labels (such as Arrowhead Vale in Auric Basin)

More commonly requested bmaps/imaps are already cached, generating fresh fmaps might take a bit longer. Labels might be a bit off, the API is not that precise with them.

Generates maps in .jpg format by default because of Cloudinary's limits on file size.

Dev environment

If you'd like to try the tool out yourself, you can either spin up a Docker container with the provided Dockerfile or do a manual install (Node 22 + Yarn).

Cloudinary is used as an CDN for the generated maps, so you will also need the following environment variables (in .env): CLOUDINARY_URL, CLOUD_NAME, CLOUD_API_KEY and CLOUD_API_SECRET.