# Maps and travel

> Pin places on a picture or a drawing of your world, draw routes with distances and modes, and let the travel check measure journeys against them.

Source: https://author.geenius.io/docs/maps-and-travel/

A **map** holds places (profiles of kind place or city) as pins on a picture you upload or a drawing you make, and **routes** between pinned places.

## Make a map

Open the maps of a book and make one. Give it a name, optionally a picture, a size in map units and how many kilometres one unit is. A map can belong to one book or be shared.

## Pin and route

- **Pin** a place at a position. A pin has a label.
- **Route** two pinned places. A route has a distance (measured on the map, or given in kilometres), a **mode** (walk, horse, bicycle, car, train, boat or plane) and a label.
- **Draw** strokes on the map to sketch coastlines and borders.

## Why it matters

The travel check (**C2**) compares how long a character takes between two scenes with the distance and the mode of the route. Without routes it cannot judge a journey. Where a place is `located_in` another in the profiles (an inn in its town), it counts as part of it.

## Plans

World maps are part of every plan.