Export makes a map to share. Use Save project to keep an editable copy for Marches.
Natural Earth data is public domain. Credit is optional.
Research edits update every view. Each view keeps its own framing, date, and label positions. Save project downloads the complete atlas.
Marches is a mapmaking workspace for historical research and teaching. Bring your places, draw the borders your sources describe, and show where the evidence is uncertain.
No account needed. Save your project to keep working; export a map for a paper, a lecture, or the web.
A free tool from the maker of RECTO/verso ↗, a workspace for the research behind your maps.
A front through time: three snapshots of the Soviet advance. Compare the stages, or select one and adjust its line.
Adapted from “Eastern Front 1943-08 to 1944-12” by Gdr, with modifications by Zocky, Mahahahaneapneap, Julieta39, and Claude Zygiel, via Wikimedia Commons. Redrawn, simplified, and restyled in Marches. This adapted map is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Positions are approximate and not independently verified. Modern base geography; period place names follow the reference. This example saves separately in this tab.
Captions saved for other years
Select a year above to add a caption.
New routes draw from start to finish, then hold. Shows direction, not travel speed. Applies to playback, web maps, and videos.
Year intervals also set the years in comparison grids and image series.
1533 shows a place from that year onward. 1533–1533 shows it only in 1533; 1533–1536 includes both end years. Choose Show all years above the map to stop playback and see everything.
Blank or unreadable dates always show. Approximate dates such as “c. 900” switch at the stated year. Leave From and To blank to use the dates in your map. Playback, comparison grids, and image series share the same selected years. More about dates ↗
Highlight arrivals and fade what just ended.
Show each place, border, and route’s dates beneath the map.
Uses the modern coastline. Check it against your historical sources.
Base map: Made with Natural Earth.
A vertical video for Stories and Reels. Preview the years, choose close-up views, then download an MP4. Your video choices save with the project.
Leave the message blank to finish with the last year. Marches needs no credit or branding.
Start with your map caption, then shorten it for a phone. This changes only the video.
Save it to your phone, then choose it in Instagram. Add music or a link sticker there if you like. Making the video does not post it anywhere.
Made on this device. MP4 export needs a browser with video encoding, such as a current Chrome or Safari. If needed, Marches uses 720 × 1280 instead of 1080 × 1920. Video help ↗
Free maps for research and teaching. No account needed.
Find places, draw borders and shaded territories, connect routes, and keep dates and sources with your work. Adjust colors, symbols, and labels, then make a figure for a paper, a slide, or a social post.
Add dates to explore change through time. Share a playable web map, a vertical video, an image series, or several years together in a comparison grid.
Certainty records your assessment of the evidence. Suggested solid, dashed, and dotted borders are customizable design choices, not a universal historical convention.
Save project downloads an editable copy for Marches. Export makes a map to share. Your browser also keeps your current work, but that copy can be cleared.
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Questions, ideas, or a map that isn’t behaving? Email hello@dodgewellcollective.com.
Marches is made by DodgeWell Collective, also the maker of RECTO/verso: a workspace for archive photographs, transcriptions, annotations, and cited figures.
The base map uses Natural Earth’s modern coastlines. Check places and coastlines against sources for your period. Natural Earth data is public domain, including for publications and commercial use; permission and credit are not required.
The optional reference layers are modern unless they say otherwise. U.S. counties come from the U.S. Census Bureau (2025) and reference cities from Natural Earth; both are public domain. Historic UK counties come from the Historic County Borders Project; credit is appreciated, not required.
Modern UK boundaries come from the Office for National Statistics (December 2025), and its licence requires a credit. Marches adds it to images and web maps while that layer is on: “Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.”
The Southern front example (Ukraine, 1943–44) redraws front lines from a Wikimedia Commons map by Gdr, with modifications by Zocky, Mahahahaneapneap, Julieta39, and Claude Zygiel, under CC BY-SA 3.0. Marches puts that credit on every export that shows those lines. Keep the credit and the licence on any map you build from them.
Copy credit in Export offers an optional Natural Earth acknowledgement and adds any credit your map’s sources require. You do not need to credit Marches.
Your project is processed in your browser. Place search sends your search text to Wikidata as you type; added places retain their source and CC0 license.
With your permission, Google Analytics measures visits and feature use. We don’t send map contents, uploaded files, or place-search text. Exported maps contain no analytics. Change your choice through Analytics settings at the bottom of the page.
The editor’s typefaces, Roboto and Literata, load from Google Fonts under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
ZIP downloads use fflate, © Arjun Barrett, under the MIT License.
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