The panel has three sections, each folding open or shut with its heading (the map remembers which you left open): Base map (the world layers and imagery), City (street-level controls for Valeris, from about zoom 11.5) and Views (jump to a place, or save the whole set-up of the map and come back to it). Most settings are written into the page address, so a bookmark brings the same view back.
Panel buttons
- ?
- Opens this guide. Press Esc or Close to shut it.
- – / □
- Every panel (search, Featured places, Layers, Timeline, Legend, the place card) has one: – makes it mini, □ brings back the full panel.
- ⠿ (move)
- Drag a panel by its header (or the ⠿ grip) to put it anywhere. With the grip focused, the arrow keys move it (Shift for bigger steps) and Home puts it back. Below 768 px wide the panels stay docked. Reset layout (Views) puts every panel back.
Colour by city
Chooses what the colour of each building means. It only colours city buildings, so you'll see it from about zoom 11.5 inwards. The key underneath lists the colours in use.
- Era built
- When the building went up, by age of history.
- Building type
- What it is: house, temple, workshop, warehouse and so on.
- Condition
- Its state at the year on the era slider: kept, worn, decaying, derelict or ruin.
- Wealth
- How well-off it is, on a 1–5 scale from dark brown (poorest) to bright gold (richest).
- Peoples
- Who mainly lives or works there.
Layers city
- Streets
- Roads, lanes, paths and steps, with their names.
- Buildings
- Every building footprint (and its 3D block when 3D is on).
- Places
- Named places as dots with labels.
- Featured icons
- The landmark icons, the same places listed under Featured places.
- Districts & territories
- District and territory areas, outlined and named.
- Walls
- City walls, including ruined stretches.
- Story routes
- Paths characters take through the city in the books.
- 3D buildings
- Raises the buildings by height. A Tilt slider appears to set the viewing angle.
World globe → region
- World plan
- The drawn world: land, biomes, realms, rivers and borders.
- Imagery · Opacity
- The painted imagery over the plan, and how strongly it covers it.
- Places & pins
- Pins for world places, story places and region places.
- Labels
- Names of continents, seas, realms, mountain ranges and forests.
- Kingdoms · Heartland box
- Each kingdom in its own colour; the known heartland outlined.
Views
- World · Elandor · Heartland · Region · Valeris
- Jump to that view.
- Save view · Copy link · Export · Import
- Save the current map under a name (in this browser), copy a link that opens it as it is now, or move your saved views between browsers as a file.
Exploring
- Hover
- Rest the pointer on anything named and a small note shows its name, type and a line about it.
- Click · right-click
- Click opens the place's card. Where several things overlap, right-click (on a touch screen, press and hold) to choose among them.
- ] · [ · Enter
- Step through the places in view; Enter opens one, Esc stops.
- Era slider
- Sets the year: city buildings, walls and streets appear and change with it; Today returns to the present. The map's colours never change with the site's theme, because they carry data.