MappSmith — Campus & stadium builder

  • Can I make a ballpark, a hockey or basketball arena, or a soccer stadium?

    Yes. The library has shelves for MLB (all 30 ballparks), the NHL (32 arenas), the NBA (30 arenas) and MLS (the soccer stadiums, plus the NFL stadiums an MLS team shares). A ballpark gets its real diamond: home plate where it is, the 90-foot bases, the mound, the infield dirt, the foul lines, the ...

  • Can I move the building names?

    Yes. The builder puts each name on a building big enough to hold it, and in the Studio each one becomes ordinary text: drag it, retype it or delete it.

  • Can I put the team logo on it?

    Yes: upload your own under Panel. MappSmith does not include any team logos or wordmarks; use one you have the right to use. It goes on the panel and at midfield, and in the Studio it is ordinary art you can move, resize or delete. A PNG or JPEG prints in its own colours. An SVG prints in its own...

  • Can I turn pieces and marks off?

    Yes, all of them. Buildings can be all, landmarks only or none, and every layer can be switched off: landmarks as their own pieces, the fields, field lines, running tracks, footpaths, streets, lawns, parking, water, the upper tier, the buildings round a stadium, the frame and the raised plaque. S...

  • How do I make a campus or stadium map?

    In the Layers panel, set Product to "Campus or stadium". The campus builder opens. Campus: tap a famous campus or stadium, or find yours by name. Look: choose Campus raised, Stadium, Stadium replica, Engraved or Printed, a finish, how close the board is, and which building it is centred on. Deta...

  • How do I make a stadium replica, like the layered stadium wall pieces?

    Set Product to "Campus or stadium". Stadium: open the NFL, College football, MLB, NHL, NBA or MLS shelf and tap a venue (or find any stadium by name). Library stadiums start as the Stadium replica. Look: pick Printed layers, Painted layers or All wood, the home team (MetLife, SoFi and a few othe...

  • How do I put a star on our building or our seats?

    Under Details, press "pin" beside any named building: where you met, a dorm, a lab. On a stadium, slide "Our seats" round the bowl to your section. The pin can be a star, a heart or a dot, and switched off.

  • How is the bowl made?

    From the stadium's outline on OpenStreetMap and a football field laid out to its real size (120 by 53 1/3 yards) where the field is. The seating decks are stepped rings between the front row and the outer wall: each tier is a piece cut from its own sheet and set back from the field further than t...

  • How is the printed replica made?

    Every layer is a birch piece, cut and UV-printed: the field green with mowing stripes, white lines, yard numbers and the end zones in the team colour with the city and the team in them; each tier in the team colour with its seat rows and aisles; the rim in a light stone colour. The board is print...

  • What do the looks give me?

    Campus raised: a board with the paths and streets engraved, the buildings raised in walnut, the landmarks raised apart in a second wood, the fields painted green, and a raised plaque. Stadium: centred on one stadium, the bowl raised round its painted field (an upper tier stands on it), the field ...

  • What is the Perspective view of a stadium replica?

    The bowl seen from above one sideline instead of straight down, the way the best stadium wall pieces draw it: the far stands rise as a wall of seat rows, the near ones are foreshortened, each upper deck hangs over the one under it, and the field is a trapezoid with its yard lines, numbers and end...

  • Where do the field lines come from?

    OpenStreetMap draws a field as its outline, so the lines are laid out from that outline and the sport's real dimensions: yard lines for football, the halfway line, centre circle and boxes for soccer, the diamond and the infield arc for baseball. Switch them off under Details.

  • Which campuses and stadiums can I find?

    Any university, college or stadium on OpenStreetMap, anywhere in the world: the buildings, footpaths, fields and stands are fetched for your frame. About thirty famous ones are ready to tap: Harvard Yard, Stanford, Notre Dame, Oxford, Cambridge, the Big House, Kyle Field, Death Valley, the Horses...

  • Which stadiums are in the football library?

    All 30 NFL stadiums (SoFi and MetLife let you pick which of their two teams) and about 40 of the biggest college football stadiums: the Big Ten, the SEC, the Big 12, the ACC and Notre Dame. Each one was checked over satellite imagery so the field sits where it really is and runs the way it really...

  • Why are some buildings joined into one piece?

    So every piece is big enough to cut and glue. Buildings closer together than the merge gap become one piece, and anything smaller than the smallest piece is left off. Change both under Fine tuning: a smaller gap keeps more buildings apart, a smaller piece size keeps the sheds. Landmarks are never...