The full setup of the Cartographer’s Annual Vol 19 (2025) is now available, meaning you can install it by downloading and running one file from your registration page.

There is no need to run this setup, if you followed the Annual as the monthly issues were released, but if you skipped some or are only now purchasing the Annual Vol 5, you only need to use this one download.

Until next week the new year’s Annual, the Cartographer’s Annual 2026, is still available at an early-subscriber discount of 15%. Check it out here.

Welcome to a new year and a new Cartographer’s Annual, dear mappers! We start of January with a new city style, completing the trilogy od hand-drawn style that we started last year. The Hand-drawn City style combines hand-drawn symbols with bitmap textures, symbol fills and the powerful city-drawing tools of City Designer 3.

The January issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2026 yet, you can do so here.

The early-subscriber discount is still available for a few days, so you can get it at 15% discount. If you subscribed to the 2025 Cartographer’s Annual and missed the re-subscription offer, let us and we’ll resend the link to you.

The Cartographer’s Annual subscription for 2026 is now available, and you can subscribe at a reduced cost. If you are a current subscriber, be sure to check your email, as you should have received your re-subscription offer that way. Otherwise visit the Annual 2026 web page for the early subscription discount.

We have the first three issue planned out and youc an see previews of those on the page linked above. We start off with a new city style, applying the hand-drawn treatment that you’ve seen for overland and dungeon maps to cities, towns, and villages.

We then have a new style by Ute Gundacker for modern floorplans in an architectural drawing style with a special emphasis on undersea stations. But these can be used for any kind of modern facilities of course! And for March there will be a new set of detailed maps by Kevin Goebel with his signature high quality floorplans and battle maps.

Subscribe to the Cartographer’s Annual 2026 now!

As usual, we close the year with the Annual’s bonus issue and make one issue available for free – this year it’s the Ancient Realms Revisited style from January.

The bonus issue adds the Random Dungeon generator for the Hand-drawn Dungeon style that we’ve been developing this year. Created randomized layouts with room, corridors, caverns and flooded areas, and then add to your random layput with the the normal tools of the style – they included mapping guide teaches you how to bridge the gap.

The Bonus issue can now be downloaded by all subscribers from their registration page, and it is also freely available from the Annual page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can do so here.

Annual 2026 subscribers should have received their re-subscription offer for the Annual 2026. Please contact us, if you haven’t received your email.

The Cartographer’s Annual December issue is now available. We’ve expanded last month’s hand-drawn dungeon style significantly with lots of new symbols, textures and drawing tools, specifically aimed at enabling outdoor battle-maps at the same amount of detail as the dungeon floorplans already possible. Enjoy the large example map of a logging camp and the mapping guide detailing the outdoor parts of the style.

The November issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can do so here.

The Cartographer’s Annual November issue is now available. Seeing the popularity of the Hand-drawn Fantasy style from May and June, we decided to expand this kind of symbols to the Floorplans and Dungeons map types, and the result is this new set. Use more than 140 new, hand-crafted symbols to map building and underground lairs.

The November issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can do so here.

The Cartographer’s Annual October issue is now available. Explore the 10 levels of Delomoro Keep mapped in glorious detaul by Kevin Goebel (Royal Scribe). Make it your adventuring base, assault it to defeat the evil baran living there, or sneak into its cellars to steal its treasures.

The October issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can do so here.

The Cartographer’s Annual September issue is now available. Enjoy a beautiful selection of compass roses and scalebars by Gerri Broman (aka Shessar) to use in any of your maps. Learn how to make them available in various ways in any drawing style by reading the accompanying mapping guide.

The September issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can do so here.

As Mike Schley is busy working on another project we can’t quite talk about yet, we are pivoting the free monthly symbols from the Dungeons of Schley style to the Hand-drawn Fantasy style introduced with the Cartographer’s Annual 2025. This month we add elven stuctures to the style, from large cities to towers, hidden strongholds and holy sites.

Note that the example maps included with this free content make use of the full Hand-drawn Fantasy style from the Cartographer’s Annual 2025. If you don’t have that Annual installed, you won’t see these correctly, but you can still use the symbols on other maps. The Cartographer’s Annual 2025 is available for purchase here.

To download the free content go to your registration page and on the Downloads tab, click the download button for Campaign Cartographer 3 Plus. The new symbols are listed there. All the content of year (up to August 2025) is included in the one download.

You can always check the available monthly content on our dedicated page.

The Cartographer’s Annual August issue is now available. Explore the pirate hideout Fort Morgan mapped by Kevin Goebel (Royal Scribe) as his first contribution to the Annual. Four detailed location maps with annotations and descriptions await you in this beautiful map pack.

The July issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can do so here.