Clear, professional GIS maps for mineral exploration, claim packages, reports, and investor materials.
Publication-ready figures that help communicate geology, targets, drilling, and project context clearly.
Polished map graphics for websites, presentations, investor decks, and public company materials.
Ongoing mapping and data support when your project needs updates, revisions, or new figures quickly.
Clear maps start with discovery, and every project begins with understanding the ground, the data, and the story behind it. We partner with exploration teams to blaze a clean trail through complex spatial information. Our process turns claims, geology, targets, and raw data into maps that help guide the next step.
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design
– Charles Eames
Every mapping project starts by understanding the route ahead. We look at the project area, claims, geology, targets, data sources, audience, and final use of the map before building anything.
From there, we organize the spatial data and choose the clearest path forward. This planning stage helps turn scattered exploration information into a clean map package that supports reports, presentations, websites, and investor materials.
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.
- Steve Jobs
Once the route is clear, we shape the map so the most important information stands out. Colours, labels, scale, legend, imagery, and layout all need to work together without overwhelming the viewer.
This stage is where technical GIS work becomes visual communication. We design each figure around the audience and purpose, whether it is for a technical report, investor deck, website, or news release.
The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.
- Mitch Kapor
With the design direction set, we build the working map package from the ground up. Claims, geology, imagery, geophysics, drill holes, roads, water, labels, and other layers are cleaned, styled, and arranged into a clear structure.
The goal is to make the map accurate, readable, and useful. Whether the final output is a single figure or a full map series, each piece is prepared so the project story is easy to follow.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
-Walt Disney
Once the map is built, we review the details, clean up labels, check the layout, and prepare the final outputs for the job. The finished files can be exported for reports, investor decks, websites, news releases, or print.
This is where the map package becomes ready to share. The goal is to give your team clear, polished figures that communicate the project quickly and help move the next decision forward.
Need clear GIS maps for a mineral exploration project?
Northward Design creates claim maps, property maps, geology figures, investor presentation graphics, and web-ready map visuals.
Northward Design is led by Iain Trusler, a GIS consultant with years of experience creating maps and technical figures for mineral exploration companies.
The work focuses on clear claim maps, property maps, geology figures, drill plans, and investor-ready graphics for reports, websites, presentations, and news releases.
With a background supporting exploration teams, public companies, and technical projects, Northward Design helps turn complex spatial data into maps that are accurate, polished, and easy to understand.
Northward Design helps exploration teams turn complex spatial data into clear maps for claims, geology, drilling, reports, websites, presentations, and investor materials.
A few of the GIS
mapping areas we support:
Claim and property maps show where a project sits, what ground is controlled, and how the land position relates to roads, communities, geology, and nearby deposits.
Northward Design prepares clean location maps and claim figures for reports, presentations, websites, and investor materials so the project context is easy to understand quickly.
Geology maps bring together bedrock units, structures, mineral occurrences, deposits, claims, imagery, and other project data into one clear visual framework.
Northward Design builds clean compilation figures that help technical teams, investors, and readers understand the geological setting and exploration potential of a project.
Drill plans and target maps help show where exploration work is focused and why certain areas matter. They can include drill collars, proposed holes, targets, structures, geophysics, geology, access, and surface features.
Northward Design creates clear figures that help technical teams explain exploration plans and help investors understand the next stage of work.
Investor and web graphics need to communicate quickly. A strong map can show location, scale, access, geology, nearby deposits, and exploration potential without overwhelming the viewer.
Northward Design creates polished map visuals for investor decks, websites, news releases, social graphics, and public-facing project materials.
Exploration projects change quickly. Claims are updated, new targets are added, drill programs advance, and figures often need to be revised for reports, presentations, websites, or news releases.
Northward Design provides ongoing GIS support to keep map packages current, organized, and ready when project materials need to be updated quickly.
