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An atlas you can step inside. Cartographia is an interactive museum of historical cities, each rendered as a flyable miniature world — a low-poly 3D diorama you can orbit, wander, and explore at your own pace. Less a textbook than an exhibition; less a game than a quiet, beautiful place to think. Tilt above the seven hills of Imperial Rome. Drift across the Bosphorus toward the great dome of Hagia Sophia. Cross the Nihonbashi beneath Mount Fuji as the lamps of Edo come alight. Drag the sun across the sky and watch shadows lengthen, windows kindle at dusk, and the colour of the air change with the hour. Three cities at their zenith • Imperial Rome, c. 125 CE — the Colosseum, Pantheon, Forum, Circus Maximus, and the Tiber, under Hadrian. • Constantinople, c. 1200 CE — Hagia Sophia, the Hippodrome, the Theodosian Walls, and the Golden Horn, on the eve of the Fourth Crusade. • Edo (Tokyo…
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What you can learn from Cartographia
Every shipping app on the App Store has gone through the same decisions you're working through right now: which screenshot goes first, what caption sits over it, which device frame to show, what color the background should be. The 6 screenshots above are Cartographia's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
Notice the first screenshot in particular. It's the one users see in search results and on the product page, and it's where most apps spend their best caption and tightest design. Look at the proportion of background to phone, where the text sits, what one thing the image is trying to communicate.
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