the canvas is Earth
10 m per pixel
free to paint

r/place, but on a world map.

Same shared-canvas mechanic laid over the real Earth. One pixel is ten meters across, the square you paint is a place you can walk to, and a link to your work opens the map at that spot.

Find your street See the grid

Paint anywhere on Earth
No account for your first 50 pixels
Nothing resets and nothing whites out

One square is 10 meters on a side, about the footprint of a small house. The outlined cell is one pixel. A city block takes a few hundred.

What changes when the canvas is a map

What do I draw?

Place Pixels

Already answered. You paint the building you live in, the school you went to, the shape of the park.

A square canvas

The hardest question on the board. Nobody has a claim on any part of a blank rectangle, so alliances formed to divide it.

Coordinates become addresses. A link to a piece of work opens the map at that spot, so showing someone what you painted is a URL rather than a screenshot with an arrow on it.

Nothing ends. There is no final image and no whiteout. Work stays where you put it until somebody paints over it.

The geometry

One pixel: 10 msquare, aligned to the Web Mercator grid
Painting starts at: zoom 15
Pixels are drawn: 10 to 20zoom
The canvas: Earthevery land and sea square of it

Below zoom 10 a ten-meter square is smaller than a screen pixel, so the paint layer is not drawn at all and you are looking at a plain map.

Will anyone else be there?

The catch

r/place worked because a million people were crowded onto one square. Spread the same people across the planet and almost every street is empty.

Cities are the unit that leaderboards, quests and reputation run on, so being fourth in Denver is a reachable thing to be.
Community murals put large paint-by-number outlines in cities, so a player alone at 3am is advancing something other strangers advance while they sleep.
Events run on a clock: a weekly themed canvas, a spotlight city, a monthly Paint Hour, a daily prompt. A deadline is how you manufacture a crowd when geography will not.

The fixed canvas is still here

Some things only work on a square: a shared palette everyone is stuck with, a border war over ground that cannot be expanded, an image that is finished at a known hour. That is what the yearly canvas at /rplace is for.

Looking for Reddit's own canvases instead? Every final r/place image, with the community atlas that labels it, is on the r/place map page.

Common questions

Is there an r/place on a world map?

Place Pixels and wplace both do it. The canvas is the Earth rather than a square, and each cell is a fixed patch of ground you can find by address.

How big is one pixel on the map?

Ten meters on a side, about the footprint of a small house. A city block takes a few hundred.

Is this the r/place atlas?

No. The atlas is a community project that catalogs what was drawn on Reddit's canvases and where. This is a canvas you can paint on.

How far can I zoom in?

Painting starts at zoom 15 and the grid is drawn up to zoom 20. Below zoom 10 a ten-meter square is smaller than a screen pixel, so there is nothing to show.

Can I paint anywhere on Earth?

Yes. Oceans, deserts and the middle of Antarctica included. Most people start on their own street.

Its an Aralyn! — Work people finished on the map and submitted to the gallery, frozen as it was at the moment they sent it.

Doctor Who Tardis in Cardiff, Fallout Sprite — Work people finished on the map and submitted to the gallery, frozen as it was at the moment they sent it.

Paint your own street

One shared map of the real world, cut into 10-meter squares. Find the street you live on, pick a color, and paint it.

start painting