Grafomap

Grafomap is a Latvia-based design company focused on turning geographic data into decorative, personalized wall art. Its service combines OpenStreetMap data with visual design filters, allowing customers to generate maps of cities, neighborhoods, countries, or other places and adapt their appearance for display as posters. The company’s proposition sits between digital cartography, graphic design, and personalized home decor: rather than presenting a map primarily as a navigational tool, Grafomap treats the map as a visual representation of a meaningful place. The company was founded in 2016 by Rihards Piks and Karlis Bikis. According to co-founder Rihards Piks, the idea developed from inspiration provided by Snazzy Maps, a WordPress plugin used to style maps for website contact pages. Grafomap extended the underlying concept from web presentation to consumer-facing physical products, with a real-time interface intended to let people create customized maps for printing as wall posters. Grafomap’s workflow is based on the use of OpenStreetMap information together with selectable design treatments. Customers can choose a location and modify the visual presentation of the resulting map, creating an item connected to a particular city, address, travel destination, or place of personal significance. The available source material identifies map posters and maps as the company’s core offering; it does not establish a broader range of products, subscription services, or enterprise activities. The company and its team are located in Latvia, while its posters and maps are printed and shipped from facilities in Los Angeles and Riga. This arrangement gives Grafomap an international fulfillment footprint despite its Latvian base. The available references do not provide reliable information about revenue, employee count, ownership structure, corporate registration, funding, or public-market status. Grafomap has received attention from fashion, art, design, technology, and business-oriented media. Reported outlets include The Guardian, the Chicago Tribune, Launching Next, The Coolector, Simply Grove, PSFK, and Product Hunt. These appearances helped position the service as a visually distinctive design and personalization startup rather than as a conventional mapping or geographic-information company. No documented major scandal, lawsuit, acquisition, leadership transition, or other corporate controversy is identified in the supplied reference material.

Grafomap was founded in Latvia in 2016 by Rihards Piks and Karlis Bikis. The company emerged from an idea associated with styled online maps. Co-founder Rihards Piks has described Snazzy Maps, a WordPress plugin for applying colors and visual styles to maps used on website contact pages, as an important inspiration. Grafomap adapted that design-oriented approach for a consumer product: instead of styling a map only for a web page, users could create a map in real time and order it as a wall poster. The company’s core process combines OpenStreetMap geographic data with design filters. This enables customers to select a location and produce a map whose visual treatment is intended for display rather than conventional navigation. The resulting product connects digital cartography with personalized art and interior decoration, allowing a map to represent a home, city, travel destination, or another personally significant place. Grafomap’s team and company base are in Latvia. Its physical production and fulfillment arrangements have included printing and shipping from Los Angeles and Riga, giving the business a cross-Atlantic operational footprint. The available reference material does not document the precise dates of facility openings, changes in production partners, or the company’s current organizational structure. The service attracted attention from a range of editorial and product-discovery publications. Coverage has been reported in The Guardian, the Chicago Tribune, Launching Next, The Coolector, Simply Grove, PSFK, and Product Hunt. The range of outlets reflects Grafomap’s appeal to audiences interested in design, art, fashion, technology, entrepreneurship, and personalized goods. The supplied material does not establish financial performance, investment history, ownership changes, public listing, or a detailed chronology of later product development. It also identifies no documented scandals, lawsuits, recalls, or major strategic transactions. On the available evidence, Grafomap is best understood as a Latvia-based design company whose principal proposition is the creation and fulfillment of customized map posters.

• 2016

  Grafomap is founded

  [1]Grafomapen.wikipedia.org

  Rihards Piks and Karlis Bikis establish Grafomap in Latvia as a design-focused mapping startup.

• The concept develops from styled web maps into physical posters

  [1]Grafomapen.wikipedia.org

  Inspired in part by Snazzy Maps, the company extends map styling from website presentation to real-time creation of customizable maps intended for wall display.

• Production and shipping operate from Latvia and the United States

  [1]Grafomapen.wikipedia.org

  Grafomap’s maps and posters are printed and shipped from Riga and Los Angeles, supporting fulfillment beyond its Latvian base.

A personalized design and home-decor service that transforms geographic data into customizable visual artwork.

• Personalized wall art

  Custom map posters

  Grafomap’s principal physical product is a printed map poster generated from a customer-selected location. OpenStreetMap data supplies the geographic foundation, while design filters alter the visual appearance. The result is intended as decorative wall art and can represent a city, neighborhood, address, or other place of personal importance.

• Digital map design

  Stylized custom maps

  The company’s online creation process allows users to produce maps in real time and apply visual treatments before ordering or using the design. The offering emphasizes aesthetic customization rather than route planning or conventional geographic-information analysis.

1. 1Grafomapen.wikipedia.org