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Changelog

What is new on HueMaps, newest first. Mostly this is layers, as they are published.

Land below sea level shown in pink on the terrain map, with every contour line numbered
Every river in the world, sized by how much land drains through it, and named where somebody has traced it.
Add the sea depth layer, from the shallows to the deepest trenches
UI Enhancement: Better ranking in search
Add the terrain layer, shaded to show the shape of the land
UI Enhancement: Draw the world flat or as a globe
Add three more layers: airports, railway stations and hospitals
UI Enhancement: Search for a place by name
Add ten maps, one per religion — Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Shinto, Jewish, Taoist, Sikh, Jain and other religions — each showing that religion's sites of every kind, not only its places of worship
UI Enhancement: Find where you are, and hide parts of a layer
Add three more layers: quarries and mines, markets and military sites
Add eight more layers: embassies and consulates, libraries and books, performing arts, theatres, cinemas, emergency services, police stations and fire stations
SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Add the all layers page — every layer in one place, grouped by subject
Add eight more layers: windmills, watermills, rescue services, ambulance stations, zoos and theme parks, art galleries and shops, wrecks and observatories
Add six more layers: schools, colleges, universities, museums, golf courses and prisons
Every layer is now built, checked and published automatically, and every change is tested before it reaches the site
Add the education layer
Click any stadium, historic site or place of worship for details of the place
Add the places of worship layer
Add the historic sites layer
Add the stadiums layer
Add six more languages, twelve in all
Add the About page — credits, sources, and how each layer is made
Read the site in six languages, share a link that reopens the exact view you are looking at, embed any map in your own page, and choose the colour scheme the population layer is drawn in
Add the population density layer
HueMaps launches, with the world basemap
July 2026
HueMaps design and planning