You lived the story; your photos kept the notes. Travel Books reads them back — the days, the places, the roads between — and hands you a finished first draft. Everything on this page is an unedited export from a real book.
The magic
Your photos find their places. The path draws itself.
Every photo you take already carries a time and a place. Drop a trip in, and each shot lands where you took it, the route threads between them, the chapters find themselves, and the whole journey becomes the opening spread of your book.
1Your photos come in
292 photographs, straight off the phone. Each already carries the only two facts that matter — a when and a where.
2Moments are noticed
Gaps in time and jumps on the map split the pile into moments. No albums, no sorting, no tagging.
Tanjung Puting · 3–4 Aug
Yogyakarta · 5–7 Aug
Rantepao · 10–13 Aug
3Spreads are derived
Each moment lays out its own pages — a chapter opener, spreads of your photographs, the day’s map drawn between them.
Yogyakarta → its chapter openerYour photos → page spreadsOne day → its own map page
4The journey opens the book
A real export — Indonesia, 14 days, 292 photographs, the route drawn from the photos’ own GPS. No templates, no sorting, no design skills required.
No. 1No forms, no pins to place
Every photo already knows when and where.
That’s all a Travel Book needs. The whole journey reassembles itself and becomes your opening spread, before you’ve typed a word.
Actual export · 14 days · 292 photographs · 6 journeys, drawn from their own GPS
The book drafts itself on your own machine.
Your photos are read here, in this browser — no upload, no account, and nothing that looks at your pictures. They only travel when you choose to save a book link, invite someone to add theirs, or order the print. To draw the maps and fill in each day’s weather we send a few coordinates and dates: a dot on a map, never a photograph.
Each map is drawn at the scale that stretch of the trip earns — a crossing wide, a day on foot down to the street. And it reads how you moved — a drive becomes a getting-there page, a hike gets its trail, a market morning gets a street-level map with every photo pinned.
The drive from Salzburg to Linz — 67 mi, drawn across the foldOne day in Yogyakarta — 40 photographs, 11 pins, one street map
The printed article — a lay-flat book open on a chapter map, readable all the way through the middle
What makes it different
The map is the whole point.
Real cartography
Every chapter opens on a map drawn from real geographic data and printed at 300 DPI, in styles made to echo the palettes of our wall maps.
Your actual route
The path you traveled is traced point-to-point across the page, so the book tells the where of the trip.
Composed, then yours
Chapters, captions and layout are drafted for you. Then every caption is a field, every photograph can move, and every page can be recomposed.
No. 3It’s a photo book first
Mostly, it is your photographs.
Spread after spread of pictures, in the order you took them. A map turns up when a day needs placing, then the photographs pick straight back up. Twelve spreads in a row from one chapter, nothing skipped.
Chapter openerPhotographsPhotographsPhotographsThe day mapPhotographsPhotographsPhotographsPhotographsPhotographsPhotographsGetting there
33 of the 52 spreads in this book are photographs. The maps are the other third. They’re there to say where you were.
No. 4Chapters find themselves
Your trip already has chapters.
A cluster of days in one place. A clear break. Another cluster somewhere new. That shape becomes the table of contents, and every chapter opens on the whole journey, with its own stretch lit and the rest left faint around it.
Ch. 1Teluknaga2 Aug · 5 photographsCh. 2Pangkalanbuun → Tanjung Puting3–4 Aug · 39 photographsCh. 3Yogyakarta5–7 Aug · 101 photographsCh. 4Sengkang8–9 Aug · 23 photographsCh. 5Rantepao10–13 Aug · 43 photographsCh. 6Tuban14–16 Aug · 81 photographs
No. 5Nothing to configure
The shape of your days sets the pages.
Several stops in a week, a real climb, the sky on a given afternoon — the trip’s own signals decide what each spread becomes. You don’t ask for any of it.
The moments it finds
It already knows what kind of moment it is looking at.
Your camera wrote a time and a coordinate into every frame. Plain arithmetic on those turns them into acts — a morning that never moved, a line across water, a climb — and asking the map what stands at those coordinates says what each act was.
Fourteen readings, shown here across one 14-day journey through Indonesia.
What the ground saysa named place under the pins, read off the map itself
The landmark·Borobudur
Two hours at Borobudur
Day 05 · 6 Aug · 05:10–07:14
A named landmark under every frame, and two hours barely moving.
2h 04mHeld still
31Photos
07°36′S 110°12′ECoordinates
Clear · 79°Weather
The market·Pasar Bolu
The market at Pasar Bolu
Day 10 · 11 Aug · 06:40–09:15
A marketplace on the map, and a morning that never left it.
2h 35mIn place
52Photos
340 ftAcross
Overcast · 84°Weather
A meal·Yogyakarta
Sate, twice
Day 06 · 7 Aug · 19:40–21:28
A restaurant on the map and a table held for most of two hours.
1h 48mAt the table
9Photos
30 ftAcross
19:40From
The show·Prambanan
The Ramayana, outdoors
Day 04 · 5 Aug · 19:30–20:40
A stage or theatre named at the centre of the frames.
1h 10mThrough it
16Photos
19:30From
Clear · 76°Weather
Wildlife·Tanjung Puting
Orangutans at Tanjung Puting
Day 03 · 4 Aug · 07:05–09:45
A reserve polygon around the frames, and animals named inside it.
2h 40mThere
38Photos
Tanjung PutingThe reserve
Overcast · 88°Weather
Along the shore·Tuban
An hour on the sand
Day 14 · 15 Aug · 15:20–16:07
A named beach under the cluster, and nothing stronger to go on.
47 minThere
12Photos
6 ftElevation
Clear · 86°Weather
On the water·Sekonyer River
Up the Sekonyer
Day 02 · 3 Aug · 14:05–16:20
A harbour at one end, then a line no road could have followed.
2h 15mAboard
≈ 6.2 miOn course
21Photos
Rain · 79°Weather
The meal it found, printed — “Sate, twice”, from the Indonesia demo book: the table in full bleed, the order like a receipt
What your movement sayspace, distance and height between one frame and the next
On foot·Kete Kesu
Kete Kesu, on foot
Day 09 · 10 Aug · 09:20–10:55
Walking pace inside a quarter that has a name of its own.
1h 35mOn foot
≈ 1.2 miDistance
27Photos
280 ftAcross
A hike·Batutumonga
The walk up to Batutumonga
Day 12 · 13 Aug · 07:40–10:30
A purposeful line over wild ground, climbing most of the way.
2h 50mWalking
≈ 3.4 miDistance
620 ftGain
34Photos
The summit·Mount Sesean
The top of Mount Sesean
Day 11 · 12 Aug · 04:20–09:05
Climbed onto the highest ground in the book, and the peak has a name.
1,960 ftGain
6,890 ftUp top
4h 45mMoving
44Photos
A ride·Yogyakarta → Solo
The train east
Day 06 · 7 Aug · 08:40–09:45
A station at one end, then a straight, sustained line at rail speed.
1h 05mAboard
38 miOn rails
11Photos
08:40From
A shore reading, printed — “The coves in January”, a mile and a half along the Lloret coast with every photo numbered on its own map, from the Costa Brava demo book
What the sun saysthe solar clock at your own coordinates, no map needed
Golden hour·Lake Tempe
The lake, all gold
Day 07 · 8 Aug · 17:34–18:09
Every frame inside the last of the light. The one reading that needs no map.
18:12Sunset
17:34–18:09In the light
19Photos
Clear · 82°Weather
After dark·Tuban
After dark in Tuban
Day 13 · 14 Aug · 20:05–22:47
Every frame after dusk. Lamplight, and shutters held open.
20:05From
22:47Last frame
23Photos
Drizzle · 76°Weather
An after-dark reading, printed — Plaza Malioboro at 19:32, one photograph carried across the whole spread, from the Indonesia demo book
When nothing else claims itenough photographs in one place to earn a page anyway
An experience·Sengkang
An afternoon at Sengkang
Day 08 · 9 Aug · 13:15–14:35
The map offers nothing to name it by. It still earns a spread, and the words are yours.
1h 20mThere
17Photos
SengkangPlace
Clear · 90°Weather
Nothing on these cards was typed in. Times, spans, distances and heights are arithmetic on the timestamps and coordinates already inside your photographs; the names — the market, the reserve, the peak, the quarter — come from looking those coordinates up on the map. Every number is yours to type over. The line about what actually happened is the part we leave to you.
Organized for you
More than one place? Back a second time?
A trip that winds through several stops — or returns to the same place twice — sorts itself. The builder reads the shape of your days and organizes the photos into moments automatically.
The hike & the summit
Scale a mountain?
A real climb reads as a hike from the frames alone, and the book keeps the numbers. Distance, elevation gain, high point and time moving are computed from the timestamps, coordinates and altitudes your camera already writes, printed in a ledger beside the day’s own elevation profile. Photograph the walk as you go and those same frames become the trail: a map of the path you actually took, drawn point to point.
And when you top out, the summit earns a spread of its own — an immersive 3D landscape of that very terrain, your route drawn up it. A fully customizable scene.
The hike spread — the trail drawn from the frames taken along it; distance, gain, high point and moving time read from the walk itself
Drag to turn
The summit spread — the top of that same walk: the terrain itself in 3D, the height reached, and the photograph taken up there pinned at its own coordinates. This one turns: press the button and the real engine mounts — about 25 MB of live terrain, and nothing until you ask.
2 Aug · 31°3 Aug · 27°4 Aug · 24°
Day by day
Recall the weather from each day of the journey.
Clear, overcast, or rain — the sky from every day of your trip is read back and kept beside its pages.
No. 6Yours to change
A first draft, not a verdict.
The book arrives composed so that you never start at a blank page — but every part of it is a control. Write over the words on a chapter opener. Drag a photograph into another’s place. Recompose a page. Put a different style on the maps. Below is the actual studio, recorded: four edits, nothing staged.
Your own words, on the opener
Every chapter opens on a note, and the studio starts it for you. Tap the line and it becomes a field with that first draft already in it — write over it and the page follows as you type, in the same hand it prints in.
Drag a photograph where you want it
Hold a picture and carry it into another’s place. The two trade slots on the spot — and if the one you dropped it on was sitting out, the picture it replaced goes back to that day’s shelf. Nothing is lost either way.
The same page, recomposed
Pages offer a handful of arrangements — photographs beside the map, one frame with the story, the words on their own, a single picture across the whole spread. Same photographs, same day, different page.
A style, over the whole journey
The journey map opens the book, so it is the one worth playing with. Turn the relief on, then try the styles against it: each is ink on the map and a tint on the paper it prints on, and one tap can carry it through every map in the book.
Every panel sits beside the page it belongs to, so nothing sends you into a settings screen. Change your mind and Start this page over puts a page back the way it arrived — the rest of the book untouched.
No. 7Make it yours
Any journey. A look of its own.
Choose a map palette that brings your trip together. The same palettes that have been going on KR Maps walls for years now set the maps inside your book — one choice, the whole book, a weekend on foot or half the world.
A city, on foot
Subtle Pastel ParisHeirloom RomeLagoon VeniceDusk Rose KyotoColorpop Tokyo
At street level the palette has the most to say: every park, canal, rail line and block takes its colour from the one you choose.
The open road
Soft Lavender ProvenceLemon The Amalfi driveTerra Canyon countryMuted Tones The HighlandsBlue Light Iceland
Out of town the land does the talking — relief, forest, coastline and the roads between them, all drawn in the same style.
Across the world
Seafoam defaultAcross the PacificSolterra London to SingaporeWarm Neutral The length of AfricaExecutive Four cities in one week
Actual exports — fourteen of the styles in the studio, each set loose on a journey of its own.
The maps
Styled after our wall maps.
Coastlines, terrain, and place names are rendered from real geographic data, and many of the book’s map styles were designed to echo the look and color palettes of the wall maps we’ve made for the last ten years. Your route is then drawn across the top, one point at a time, exactly where you went.
No. 8The object itself
Made to be handled.
Two bindings, one size — A4 landscape, 11.7 × 8.3 inches, opening to 23.4 inches across a spread — printed at 300 DPI on heavy stock with a matte-laminated hard cover. Everything below is the real specification we send to the press.
Hardcover
From $46.95
Case-bound with a printed cover and a squared spine. The classic photo-book feel. It stands on a shelf and holds its shape for decades.
Paper
200 gsm
Pages
24 – 252
Spine
From 9.5 mm
Lay-flat — best for maps
From $89.95
Hinged so every spread opens almost completely flat. A map that runs across the fold stays readable all the way through the middle.
Paper
190 gsm
Pages
18 – 122
Opens
Near flat
297 × 210mm trim · A4 landscape · 11.7 × 8.3 in
300DPI, every page
3507 × 2480pixels per page
252pages at the largest size
We reconstruct the journey. You decide what it meant.
The route, the timing, the places, the light — that part happens on its own. Which moment mattered most was always going to be your call.
