The problem
A wedding, an anniversary, a dating milestone. The date calls for a gift that says something, and the options tend to be the same: a printed album, a framed photo, a retrospective video. All lovely, all seen before.
The couple has hundreds of photos and videos on their phones, from trips, dates and places that matter. What is missing is not material, it is a way to tell that story that is not a stack of images in date order.
And whoever puts the gift together does not want to spend the night typing an address for every photo or learning a new program.
The constraints
The decisions
The place comes from the photo itself, nobody types an address
Every photo and video taken on a phone quietly stores where and when it was captured. Cartografia reads that and places each memory on the map and the timeline on its own. The person sends the files and writes the dedication; the rest is automatic. An AI assistant also suggests a description for each image, which the person keeps or replaces.
Ask the person to pin each photo on the map. Discarded: with dozens of photos, that is the kind of task that turns a gift into a chore.
Map and timeline, the same story told two ways
Each memory appears where it happened and also in the order it happened. Whoever opens it can wander the map or follow the story from the start. A photo with no location is not left out: it goes on the timeline only. And every memory can be shared on its own, with its own page.
The map only. Discarded: the map shows where but not the story, and every photo without a location would disappear.
Password-protected upload, opened by link
The couple, or whoever is preparing the gift, uploads photos through a dedicated page protected by a password. Whoever receives it opens it by link, and on a phone can install the gift on the home screen, like an app, opening full screen.
Create an account with a login for viewers. Discarded: a gift that asks you to sign up before opening it loses the moment.
The result
The first Cartografia was made for a real couple, with their real memories, and that is what validates the product: photos and videos uploaded in one go, the map built on its own, one dedication per moment, and the gift opened on a phone like an app.
The next step is the sales format: made to order, with the look adapted to each couple, and in partnership with wedding photographers, who deliver the album and the Cartografia together. The real example is not linked here because it is personal.
tech sheet
- stack
- Next.js · TypeScript · Prismic · Leaflet · Vercel
- role
- Product, design and development