The printing arm of KR Maps. Everything here begins with places you actually went — your photographs, your routes, real geographic data — and ends as something printed, on heavy stock, in your hands.
One title in print·Two more setting up·Printed at 300 DPI
No. 1In print now
Travel Books
A hardcover book of one trip, rebuilt from the photographs themselves — chapters, captions, and your actual route drawn onto real maps of the places you went. Drop in a trip; a finished draft comes back in minutes.
Drop in a folder of trip photos. Travel Books rebuilds the journey from them — maps, order, every place — and prints it as a hardcover book.
Drop in a folder of trip photos. From nothing but the when and where each one carries, Travel Books builds the whole journey back — the maps of every route you took, your photographs in the order they happened, each place its own moment — then prints it as a hardcover book you keep.
Photos stay on your device·Hardcover from $43.95·Free U.S. shipping·Printed in the U.S.A.
How it works
Your trip already wrote the book.
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 word and page is yours to edit.
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
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. 6Make it yours
Any journey. Thirty-seven map styles.
The same palettes that have been going on KR Maps walls for years now set the maps inside your book. Choose one and the whole book follows it, 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 thirty-seven styles, 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. 7The object itself
Made to be handled.
Two bindings, one size, 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 $43.95
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 – 300
Spine
From 9.5 mm
Lay-flat — best for maps
From $84.95
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
300DPI, every page
3507 × 2480pixels per page
300pages 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.
Everywhere else on this site you are looking at design files. Here you are looking at the object — two finished Travel Books, one from a fortnight across Indonesia, one from four trips along the Occitanie coast, both made the same way you would make yours. Tap any photograph to see it full size.
OneThe object
A hardcover book, A4 landscape.
The cover is yours to choose: a photograph from the trip, or the route itself drawn on plain board.
From Nimes to Ceret — 145 photographs, four cities, and a cover drawn from the GPS trackIndonesia — Teluknaga to Tuban, August 2018. A photograph from the trip carried across the whole coverTwo books, two trips — both A4 landscape, both hardcoverClosed, from the fore-edgeThe same title with the drawn cover: four journeys as one continuous lineIndonesia, straight on. The cover photograph runs edge to edge
TwoInside the book
Maps and photographs, facing each other.
Chapters open on the place they cover. Maps print across the gutter at full spread width. Every figure on the page — distance, weather, the time of day — came off the photographs themselves.
The opening spread: an eleven-day trip across four journeys — Sète, Béziers, Ceret, Narbonne — drawn on one mapA chapter opens on Tuban — three days, 103 photographs, about 146 milesFriday 12 May, a market. The day’s photographs in the order they were takenWandering Narbonne — a day’s walk, set across both pagesMontpellier: 29 photographs, 18 pins, numbered so you can follow them across the next spreadsA quote page, set alone. Montpellier, Saturday 13 May 2023Sengkang and around — two days, 23 photographs, about 156 milesBoats and stilt houses: one day, laid out across both pagesGetting there — left Nîmes for Béziers, 65.9 miles by roadA walk through Agde, 10:15 to 11:36, clear and 86°, with the walk drawn beside itThe last page — eleven days, four journeys, one line on the map
ThreeIn the hand
It has weight.
Heavy stock, printed both sides, bound to open flat enough to read a map across the middle.
A page lifting. Wednesday 13 JulyOpen at the middle and lying flat — which is what it takes to read a map across the gutterA page caught mid-turnA map page held open, the route running along the coastTurning into a street market in YogyakartaStanding open — Wednesday 13 July, then Saturday 22 October
FourDetails
Close enough to read.
The line is drawn from your actual track, one colour per journey, and printed at 300 DPI on real cartography, not an illustration of a map.
The route line close up — Narbonne, Béziers, Agde, Sète. Every stop a node, every journey its own colourA moment on the page: Borobudur, 08:52 to 11:33, two hours forty-one minutes on site, overcast and 84°One day, 19 photographs, 82.6 miles, overcast and 81° — the figures set under the mapThree days, 101 photographs, about 117 miles
FiveThe pages themselves
Flat, at full width.
These five are exported pages, not photographs — the same files that go to the press, shown flat so nothing sits between you and the page. Everything above this line came off a camera.
The opening spread — the whole journey, drawn across both pagesA summit page, with the elevation model switched onA photo spread, laid out from the frames themselvesA day map — one day’s movement, on real cartographyA full-bleed photograph, facing its own caption
Nine map palettes and the terrain settings that produced these live on How it works.
Yours would be a different book.
Same binding, same paper, same press. Different trip, different maps, different photographs. Drop a trip in and a finished draft comes back in minutes.
No answer here uses that word. Try a plainer one — paper, price, edit — or ask us directly.
Getting started
What you need, and where the first draft comes from.
How do I make a Travel Book?+
Start from the web studio or the KR Maps Journeys app and pick a trip. We compose the whole book — maps, chapters, captions — the travel journal you never had to keep. Then you rearrange, rewrite, and refine it. When it looks right, choose a binding and order.
Do I need the Journeys app?+
No. Journeys is how you gather a trip; a Travel Book is how you keep it — and you can do both in the web studio without ever installing the app. Journeys is a free, optional companion that gathers your travel photos and matches them to places — handy, but never required.
Is it free to try?+
Yes. Building and previewing your whole book is free. You only pay when you place a print order.
How long does it take to make one?+
The first draft is composed for you in minutes, so there’s no layout work to do. However long you spend after that is up to you — order it as-is, or linger over favorites and captions.
Can I stop halfway and come back?+
Yes. Save and finish later hands you a private link that reopens your book on any computer for 30 days from your last edit. Opening or re-saving resets the clock. There’s no account and no password; the link itself is the key, so keep it to yourself. You can also have it emailed to you.
The book itself
Bindings, size, paper, and how many pages fit.
Hardcover or lay-flat — what’s the difference?+
Hardcover is a classic case-bound book, durable and giftable. Lay-flat uses thick, rigid pages that open completely flat, so a photo or map can run seamlessly across the whole spread. Lay-flat is the premium option; hardcover is the everyday keepsake.
How big is the book?+
A4 landscape — about 11.7 × 8.3 inches — a generous, wall-map-worthy canvas for your photos and routes.
How many pages can it have?+
That depends on the binding. Hardcover runs 24 to 300 pages, priced in seven tiers (40, 72, 104, 152, 200, 252, 300). Lay-flat runs 18 to 122, in four (40, 72, 104, 122). A big multi-stop trip or a full year of adventures usually lands well inside the early tiers.
What paper and print quality?+
Heavy gloss stock — 200 gsm in the hardcover, 190 gsm in the lay-flat — printed at 300 DPI, with a matte-laminated cover on both. The same standard we hold our wall maps to.
Editing & sharing
Captions, chapters, maps, and other people’s photos.
Can I edit the text, captions, and order?+
Yes, everything. Rewrite the intro, edit every caption, add or remove photos, and rearrange chapters and pages until the story reads the way you remember it.
Can I change the maps?+
Your route is drawn automatically from where you traveled. You can adjust how each map is framed and zoomed so the part of the journey you care about takes center stage.
Can I combine several trips into one book?+
Yes. Bring in a single journey or a whole multi-stop trip. Each leg becomes its own chapter with its own map.
Can other people add their photos?+
Yes. From the studio you can send a private, upload-only link. Whoever you send it to can add their shots to your book, and nothing else: they can’t see your book, edit it, or order it. Their photos arrive in your gathering and you decide what stays.
Photos & privacy
Where your pictures live, and what we never see.
How does it know all this without AI?+
Arithmetic. Every photo carries a timestamp and coordinates, and speed, spacing, altitude, and the shape of the path are enough to tell a hike from a drive from a day at sea, and one trip from another. Nothing ever needs to look at your pictures.
Where are my photos while I build?+
On your own device. They’re read here in your browser and stay put — nothing is uploaded until you choose to save a book link, invite someone to add their photos, or order the print. To draw your maps and fill in each day’s weather we look up a few coordinates and dates: a dot on a map, never a photograph.
Do you or any AI look at my photos?+
No. Your photos are never viewed by us or any AI, and are permanently deleted shortly after your book is delivered. The only way we ever see them is if you hand them to us: when you ask for help from inside the studio there’s a tick-box, off by default, that lets us open your book to see what you’re seeing. Leave it alone and we get your words and nothing else. See our privacy promise.
What happens to my files after I order?+
Your print file is held only long enough for our print partner to produce and ship your book, then deleted. If you saved a cloud draft, it’s kept for 30 days from your last edit — opening or re-saving resets the clock — and then removed automatically.
Ordering & delivery
Prices, shipping, and putting things right.
How much does a book cost?+
Hardcover starts at $43.95 and lay-flat at $84.95, by size. See the full breakdown on the Pricing page.
Is shipping free? How long does it take?+
Standard U.S. shipping is free. Books are printed to order, so allow time for production plus transit.
A plain-language summary of how KR Maps Press handles your photos and data.
Last updated — July 2026
What we collect
The photos, captions, and trip details you add to a book, plus basic order and contact information when you buy.
Where your photos live
While you create, your photos stay on your device. They aren’t uploaded unless you choose to save, collaborate, or order your book, and once your book is ready to print, they’re never viewed by us or any AI, and are permanently deleted shortly after your book is delivered. The only way we ever see them is if you hand them to us: asking for help from inside the studio offers a tick-box, off by default, that lets us open your book to see what you’re seeing. Leave it alone and your message arrives with your words and your page count, nothing more.
When data is uploaded
Nothing is uploaded until you choose to save a book link, invite someone to add their photos, or order your book, and we ask before the first upload ever happens. Ordering begins the upload when you go through to review your book, not at payment, so the print files are ready when you are. From then on, your book link keeps itself up to date as you edit, so your work is never lost and ordering takes seconds.
Printing & retention
To print your book we share the finished file with our print partner, who keeps it only long enough to produce and ship your order, then deletes it.
Cloud drafts & accounts
Saved cloud drafts are kept 30 days from your last edit — opening or re-saving resets the clock — then deleted automatically. No account is required to build a book.
