FOR EVENT ORGANISERS

Draw your event map in minutes

Drag-and-drop a stage, draw a parking polygon on scale, drop a bar and a tent. Every object snaps to the live basemap, every area auto-measures in square metres, every pedestrian and emergency route auto-measures in metres. No CAD, no Photoshop, no training.

The event map module is 100% free for everyone. No paywall, no trial, no sign-up-then-pay flow. 10,000+ event organisers across the EU already use it for their festival, parade, fête or sports event.

Create your free account belowon the right and start drawing straight away. Want to discuss a closer collaboration, partnership or bulk-onboarding for an event collective? Use the second tab, “Discuss a partnership”.

“Drew the whole festival in an afternoon. Tents, bars, stages, every emergency exit.”

Pieter van der Velde · Bokbierdag Zutphen

“I'm not a designer. 60,000-visitor footprint, browser only, forty minutes start to finish.”

Hannah Clarke · Bristol Harbour Festival

Create a free account and draw unlimited event maps. Free forever, no credit card.

The event map module is and remains 100% free. Create an account and start drawing.

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Over 10,000 professionals from the event industry, infrastructure industry and municipalities use our software daily.

“I've been using Traffic Chart for a while now and loved it from day one. It makes my job in event production a lot easier.”

Emma Brooks, Event Production

01 EVENT MAP MODULE

Digital to the centimetre, printable up to A0.

Open the editor on any browser, pan to your festival site on the live basemap, and start dropping objects from the catalogue, tents, trailers, stages, bars, kiosks, ticket booths, fences, toilets. Each item carries its real-world dimensions and snaps to scale on the map.

Draw your zones as polygons, rectangles or circles, parking, camping, crowd area, restricted zone, tent area, with auto-calculated m². Trace pedestrian routes, vehicle routes and emergency exits with auto-calculated metres. Export the result as an A4, A3, A2, A1 or A0 PDF for your municipality and on-site briefings, or share the live URL with your safety team for review in their browser.

Event organiser at a UK country-show preparation morning pointing at a large A0-format printed event-site map mounted on a wooden frame, the same scaled event plan drawn in the Traffic Chart browser editor

How you draw an event map

Four steps from a blank basemap to a PDF your municipality recognises on first read.

Event map editor with the Objects panel open, drag-and-drop catalogue of stages, trailers, kiosks and ticket booths next to an live basemap of the event site

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Drag-and-drop objects

Open the editor and you see your event site on an live basemap. Browse the catalogue, stages, trailers, kiosks, ticket booths, fences, toilets, and drag any object onto the map. Each one carries its real-world dimensions and renders to scale.

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Features

Drag-and-drop object catalogue: stages, trailers, kiosks, bars, ticket booths, fences, toilets, all with real-world dimensions
Polygon, rectangle and circle zones, auto-measured in m² (parking, camping, crowd area, tents, restricted zones)
Six route types with auto-measured length: pedestrian, vehicle, emergency, access, boundary, emergency exit
live basemap with full pan and zoom, no upload of a site plan needed
Auto-save on every change, never lose a layout to a closed tab
Multi-day event support with start + end timestamps per plan
Export to A3 / A4 PDF for permit submission, or share a live URL for review
Auto-generated material list per plan (cones, barriers, signage counts ready for procurement)
Auto-generated post-instructions for the on-site crew, printable per plan
Request-item form: 24-hour turnaround on adding a custom object to the catalogue

Benefits

100% free for everyone, no paywall, no trial, no sign-up-then-pay flow
90% faster event-map creation than CAD, Word, PDF or Photoshop workflows
Permit submissions land in the format your municipality expects on the first try
Safety team reviews the same canvas you draw, no PDF round-trips
Auto-measured areas and routes remove the guesswork from capacity planning
Browser-only, no software install, no licence per workstation
No CAD or Photoshop training required, your team is productive on day one

Traffic plan module in Traffic Chart, the companion module alongside the event map for organisers who also need a road-closure plan on the public-road side

02 ALSO INSIDE

Need a traffic plan too? Same workspace, same basemap.

If your event closes a road, narrows a lane, hosts a parade route or sets up signage on the public-road side, you also need a traffic plan. Traffic Chart ships the traffic-plan module alongside the event-map module. You choose which one you're drawing when you log in, and each module has its own canvas and its own catalogue: the event map carries scaled objects, zones and routes; the traffic plan carries the country's official signage catalogue (RVV, StVO, RSA, TSRGD, DGT or the Portuguese Manual de Sinalização Temporária).

What ties the two together is the live basemap underneath. You draw the event-side layout against the same geographic basemap your municipality's traffic engineer uses for the traffic-plan side, so the two plans line up exactly when they land in their inbox. You can also overlay one on top of the other in the browser to spot conflicts (a pedestrian route running through a closed-road zone, for example) before you submit.

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Working on something bigger than one event?!

Festival collective, municipal events pool, or a platform that wants to embed event maps? Tell us about your setup; we'll think along on partnership, integration or bulk onboarding. The form at the top of the page is where it lands.

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FAQ, event organisers

Common questions from festival, parade and community-event organisers before they draw their first map.

What is an event map?

An event map is the scaled site layout you submit alongside the event permit. It shows where the tents, stages, bars, kiosks and ticket booths sit, where the crowd and parking zones are, and how pedestrian, vehicle and emergency routes flow through the site. Most municipalities require it for any event with a public-impact footprint, and many require it above a visitor threshold.

Do I need CAD or Photoshop training?

No. The editor opens in any browser. You drag an object from the catalogue onto the live basemap, draw a polygon for a zone, trace a line for a route. Every measurement is automatic. The municipality clients who receive your plan see the same canvas you draw on.

How does the drag-and-drop catalogue work?

The catalogue ships hundreds of items with real-world dimensions: stages, trailers, kiosks, bars, ticket booths, fences, toilets, tribunestoeltjes, podiums. Drag one onto the map; it renders to scale instantly. Missing an item? The Request item button submits a 24-hour add request to our team.

Can I export as PDF?

Yes. A4 or A3, portrait or landscape. The export includes the basemap, every object, every zone with its m² label, every route with its metres label, plus a legend. Most municipalities accept the PDF as-is for permit submission.

Can I share the live plan with my safety team?

Yes. Every plan has a shareable URL. Your safety team, on-site crew or municipality reviewer can open the URL in any browser and see the live, auto-saved version. No download, no PDF round-trips.

What if I also need a traffic plan?

The traffic-plan module is its own canvas. When you log in you pick 'event map' or 'traffic plan' and start fresh in that one. What ties the two together is the live basemap underneath: you draw against the same geographic basemap the municipality's traffic engineer uses, so both submissions line up exactly when they land in their inbox. You can also overlay one plan on top of the other in the browser to spot conflicts (a pedestrian route running through a closed-road zone, for example) before submission. Each module ships the relevant catalogue: scaled event objects + zones + routes on the event map side, and the country's official signage catalogue (RVV, StVO, RSA, TSRGD, DGT, Manual de Sinalização Temporária) on the traffic plan side.

How are the measurements calculated?

Every object carries its real-world dimensions and renders to scale on the live basemap. Zones use the basemap's geographic coordinates to compute area in m². Routes use the same coordinates to compute length in metres. You, your safety team and your municipality all see the same numbers.

What does it cost?

The event map module is 100% free for everyone. No paywall, no trial, no sign-up-then-pay flow. Open the editor in your browser and draw. The contact form on this page is only for closer-collaboration requests (partnerships, integrations, bulk-onboarding for an event group). The traffic-plan module has its own pricing; the first traffic plan is free.