About Us
The MapShop is our online store for our cartographic businesses
MapShop is a specialist online store dedicated to high quality wall maps, transport maps and educational cartography. Launched in late 2024, MapShop brings together decades of professional mapping expertise to make accurate and beautifully designed maps accessible to homes, offices and classrooms around the world.
MapShop is a brand of Pindar Creative, a UK based cartographic and information design studio with deep experience in transport mapping, wayfinding and geographic visualisation.
Through this connection, MapShop draws on more than 150 years of combined cartographic expertise across the wider group of mapping specialists.
Professional Cartography You Can Trust
Unlike many online map stores that simply resell generic posters, MapShop is built on a foundation of professional cartography.
Maps available through MapShop are created or curated by specialist mapping teams including:
These organisations have produced mapping for transport networks, publishers, tourism authorities and educational organisations across the UK and internationally.
This professional background ensures that the maps available through MapShop prioritise:
- Accurate and reliable cartography
- Clear visual communication
- High quality map projections
- Up to date geographic information
Specialists in Transport and World Maps
MapShop is particularly known for its collection of specialist map types, including:
Licensed Transport Maps
MapShop offers licensed mapping including official Transport for London style network maps, helping customers display one of the most recognisable transport diagrams in the world.
Equal Area World Maps
Many traditional world maps distort the size of countries. MapShop offers a curated collection of equal area projections including:
- Hobo-Dyer projection
- Equal Earth projection
- Gall projection
- Natural Earth projection
- Mercator projection for reference use
These maps are widely used by educators, researchers and organisations interested in fair geographic representation.
Printed Close to You
MapShop serves customers globally.
MapShop operates online but is managed from Amersham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, where our parent organisation Pindar Creative has produced professional mapping and passenger information systems for transport authorities, publishers and organisations worldwide.
To reduce delivery times and minimise environmental impact, maps are produced using trusted professional print partners located as close as possible to the customer.
This distributed printing model allows MapShop to:
- Ship to customers worldwide
- Reduce international shipping distances
- Maintain consistent print quality
- Deliver maps quickly and securely
Curated and Original Mapping
MapShop offers both:
Original maps produced by professional cartographers within the group, and
Carefully selected maps from respected mapping publishers.
Every map is chosen for its quality, clarity and usefulness, ensuring that customers receive products that meet the standards expected from professional mapping specialists.
Leadership
MapShop is overseen by Carl Thomas, Managing Director of Pindar Creative.
Carl has extensive experience in transport mapping, passenger information systems and cartographic design. Through MapShop, he aims to make high quality mapping more widely available to individuals, organisations and educators around the world.
Our Mission
Maps help people understand the world.
Whether supporting travel planning, education, interior design or geographic learning, MapShop aims to make accurate, well designed maps accessible to everyone.
By combining professional cartographic expertise with modern global printing technology, MapShop brings trusted mapping to walls around the world.
