Put your national park on the map
An interactive, contributor-driven map of your park, styled to the Miljødirektoratet national-park design manual, easy to keep current, translated for every visitor, and ready to embed on your own website.
Already mapping national parks like Raet and Jomfruland.
Everything a national park needs in one map
From the first import to an embedded, multilingual map your visitors actually use.
Designed to match the national park visual identity
Your map follows Miljødirektoratet’s national park design manual, with the official colours, icon set, basemap and park boundaries already in place. Additional datasets and layers can be added as needed.
- National-park colours and icon set from Miljødirektoratet
- Park boundaries and official map data built in
Keep your map current without a GIS team
Bring in what you already have. We import your data from digital or print maps so you don't start from a blank page. Invite colleagues and partners as collaborators, and keep the map alive with events imported straight from Facebook or from any event page using our AI agent.
- We import your existing digital or print map data
- Add collaborators across your team and partners
- Import from Facebook, any event page, or a poster. AI fills in the details
Works for every visitor, in their language
Designed to work just as well on a phone in the field as on a desktop at the visitor centre. Every place is automatically translated into 7 languages so international guests get the same information, and you can group places into clear collections. Meta tags and structured data help search engines and AI assistants find and recommend your park.
- Mobile-first design. Great on phones and desktop, with native iOS and Android apps
- Automatic translation into 7 languages
- Group places into themed collections
- SEO & AEO optimised for search engines and chatbots
Drop your map into your own website and track it
Embed the entire map, or just a selected group of places, into your existing national park website in minutes. Then track exactly how visitors use it with built-in analytics, so you can see what people are looking for.
- Embed the full map or a selected collection
- Built-in usage analytics
Maps should show more than where things are
Places.nu was founded by Levi Westerveld, a cartographer and human geographer who has spent much of his career exploring how maps can help us understand places.
His work has ranged from leading the Arctic Permafrost Atlas to mapping the experiences found in Holocaust survivor testimonies and working with Sámi communities to represent the relationships between reindeer herders, reindeer and the landscape. Across these projects, he has helped develop new ways to bring scientific knowledge, lived experience and local knowledge into maps.
That work led to a simple principle: maps should do more than show where things are. They should bring together accurate information and local knowledge to help people understand the landscape.
Places.nu was built around that idea, giving national parks a practical way to create maps that are accurate, easy to maintain and genuinely useful to visitors.
Selected research: Inductive Visualization · Loosening the Grid · Participatory Topological Mapping
Includes:
- Park-branded map, icons & boundaries
- We create a demo map for your park
- Option to add and style your own custom GIS data
- Unlimited places, events, collections, and community members
- Translation of your content to 7 languages
- Embed map on your website
- White-label embedding (no Places.nu logo)
- Priority support to ensure your success
Ready to put your park on the map?
Send us a note and we'll set up a preview for your park and find a time to meet.
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