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Adventures live here

Cinematic storytelling for the trips worth keeping

Storytelling

Turn tracks into memories

Adventures shape who we are.  They deserve the detail, the attention and the craft that any film gets.

Most trips end up as scattered folders nobody opens again.  A gps track in one app, photographs in another, and the hour nobody filmed missing completely.  Mapdirector keeps the whole trip instead.

An annotated Mapdirector still: three route lines, photo waypoints and notes across an alpine basin at dawn
Seven days of the Haute Route in the editor, dawn on day two.
01

Gather

Everything you came back with, on one timeline. Matched by when and where it happened, not by filename.

GPS data · Photographs · Video · Waypoints · Notes · Weather (soon)
02

Direct

You decide what the trip was about: the crux, the bivvy, the hour nobody filmed. Then how the whole thing looks.

Camera moves · Pacing · Colour · Typography · Chapters
03

Share

One trip, in every shape your audience already lives in.

Flyover · Trip report · Social reel · Still image · Itinerary
04

Keep

Every trip stays. One is a film, twenty is a portfolio, and that is a truer picture of you than any feed has managed.

Portfolio · Seasons · Archive
Get inspired

One trip, unlimited ways to tell it

Mountaineering trip reportYouTubeMountaineering trip reportA multi-day line, told day by day, with images, waypoints, terrain and atmosphere
Social reelInstagramSocial reelBoosting social media engagements with realistic map animation sections
Race reportInstagramRace reportA 500km race trough the Alps? Now that's a story
DocumentaryYouTubeDocumentaryCinematic map animations mixed with storytelling and aerial videography

Field notes

From the community
Everest region · Virtual tours
Mapdirector is a huge time and brain saver, and I cannot express my gratitude enough! I've been using it to share adventures with current and future Nepal trek clients, and also as part of immersive virtual tours of Mount Everest and the Everest region.
Jake NortonEverest Mountaineer, UN Ambassador, Filmmaker
Alpine hikes · Social
Mapdirector is a great tool to showcase my hikes and make them even more interesting. There are so many options you can set, such as the colors of the track or the base map and the weather. I use it to show my hikes on my social media accounts.
Dominik EbnerPhotography, Videography & Social Media
Cinematic map technology

Terrain that feels like the place you were actually in

The ground under your route is measured, not illustrated. Where high-resolution data exists we use it, so ridgelines, valleys and coastline read the way they did on the day, not as a smoothed-out approximation.

Grand Combin, 4 314 m
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Best-available elevation data
We pull the highest-resolution model published for your area, down to one metre where surveys allow. Couloirs, cornices and reef breaks sit where they actually are.
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Sun and atmosphere from your date
Light is simulated from the date, hour and position of your track: real sun angle, real length of day, haze you can dial in.
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Shadows that read
Cast shade across a ridge tells the viewer the shape of the ground without a single label or contour line.
Portfolio

One trip is a post. Twenty is who you are.

Every story you build stays on one map. Seasons stack, ranges fill in, and what looked like scattered weekends turns into a body of work with your name on it.

Commissioned work

Need it made for you?

Races, brands and destinations come to us for finished films: course reveals, campaign flyovers, broadcast-ready animation. We build them with the same engine, directed end to end by our team.

See our client work

Somewhere out there is your next story