Choosing a creation mode

When you click New Project inside a workspace, you are asked to choose between two creation modes.

The Project Wizard (recommended) walks you through a guided six-step flow that sets up your area, selects terrain and imagery sources, and queues the necessary background downloads all at once. This is the right choice for most users.

A Blank Project lets you define map dimensions without pinning a real-world location. Background data downloads are skipped entirely. This mode is for situations where you already have all your source files and want to upload them directly, or where you prefer to start from an empty canvas.

Wizard steps

The wizard has six steps: Setup, Area, DTM, Vector, Imagery, and Review. You can navigate between completed steps freely.

Setup: Enter a project name and optional description. If you leave the name blank, one is generated automatically from the coordinates, map size, and timestamp. You also select the target game here.

Area: Pin the center of your map by entering latitude and longitude coordinates or clicking directly on the interactive map. Set the overall map size and the playable area dimensions. You can also rotate the map. The preview overlay shows exactly what will be covered.

DTM: Choose where terrain elevation data comes from. Provider download queues a background task that fetches data from a supported elevation provider. The platform suggests the highest-resolution provider available for your area and always includes the global SRTM 30 m dataset as a fallback. Upload lets you supply your own file — a GeoTIFF is processed and georeferenced automatically, while a PNG or JPG is used as-is.

Vector: Choose where map features come from. The default is to download from OpenStreetMap for your area, with optional preprocessing that merges connected road segments and carves fields at road and river boundaries. You can also upload your own .osm or .pbf file if you have curated vector data.

Imagery: Optionally download a satellite image composite for the area. The platform suggests providers based on coverage for your location; the global Sentinel-2 L2A dataset is always available as a fallback. You can also upload your own GeoTIFF or skip imagery entirely and add it later.

Review: See a summary of all your choices before confirming. Navigate back to any step to adjust settings.

After creation

Once you confirm on the Review step, the project is created immediately and any selected background downloads are queued as tasks. You can open the project and start exploring while tasks are still running. The Editor will indicate which layers are waiting for data to arrive.

Completed tasks produce assets that are automatically linked to the project and become available as layers in the Editor.

Blank projects

Blank projects skip all background downloads. They start with map dimensions only and no attached data. To populate a blank project, upload your own terrain, vector, and imagery files from the project's Assets or Tasks sections after creation.

Blank projects are a good fit if you are working from an existing dataset, migrating from another tool, or building a fully custom map that does not need real-world data.