SketchMap Atlas

A sketching route

Sketching routes

A sketching route is a short walk through places that artists drew, in the order you would walk them. SketchMap Atlas has 8 built-in routes of three to five stops, and you can build your own from two to ten sketches on the map and share it as a link.

Venice: three centuries, one canal5 stops · 1.3 km · Canaletto, J. M. W. Turner and John Singer Sargent
Moscow: from the Kremlin to Red Square4 stops · 1.2 km · Apollinary Vasnetsov and Fyodor Alekseyev
St Petersburg: from Nevsky to the Neva5 stops · 2.7 km · Andrey Martynov, Vasily Sadovnikov and Maxim Vorobyov
Edo: Nihonbashi and the bridge in the rain3 stops · 1.9 km · Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige
Samarkand: the Registan and Shah-i-Zinda3 stops · 2.3 km · Vasily Vereshchagin
Quebec: from Hope Gate to Cape Diamond3 stops · 3.0 km · James Pattison Cockburn
Thingvellir: the church and the rifts3 stops · 1.9 km · Bayard Taylor
Van Gogh’s Arles: the bridge, the café and the abbey3 stops · 7.3 km · Vincent van Gogh

Build your own route

Questions

Which app has sketching routes?

SketchMap Atlas, a free app for Android and the web with a world map of drawings made by people. It has 8 built-in sketching routes through classic sketches, and you can build your own from sketches on the map.

What is a sketching route?

A short walk through places that artists drew, in the order you would walk them. Each stop shows the sketch, who drew it, when, and where it is on the map.

Do I need an account to look at a route?

No. You can open any route and look at every sketch without signing up.

Can I make a route of my own?

Yes. In the app you pick two to ten sketches on the map, put them in order, name the route and share it as a link.

Where do the sketches come from?

The built-in routes use classic sketches in the public domain from Wikimedia Commons. Every stop shows its source and licence.

Updated 28 October 2026