# Having trouble with the map size and tile size

**URL:** <https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/having-trouble-with-the-map-size-and-tile-size/659>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [July 20, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/having-trouble-with-the-map-size-and-tile-size/659 "2015-07-20T17:23:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Hasan\_Awad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Hasan\_Awad](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/Hasan_Awad)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/having-trouble-with-the-map-size-and-tile-size/659/1 "2015-07-20T17:23:03Z")

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im new to game development and i’ve been trying to create a map to show on my samsung galaxy s4 i was wondering if someone could tell me the accurate map and tile size i should be using for 1080x1920 resolution.

a help would be very much appreciated and thanks.

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**Author:** ![bjorn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/bjorn/32/1599_2.png) [@bjorn](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/bjorn)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/having-trouble-with-the-map-size-and-tile-size/659/2 "2015-07-20T20:53:08Z")

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Did you notice the New Map dialog displays the size of the map in pixels?

![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/mapeditor/original/1X/fc5b205de05958090e655db827c30c7a9f6120f3.png)

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**Author:** ![Hasan\_Awad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Hasan\_Awad](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/Hasan_Awad)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 8:19am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/having-trouble-with-the-map-size-and-tile-size/659/3 "2015-07-21T08:19:57Z")

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Yes but it was very confusing for me if i change the map size it changes and if i change the tile size it changes so i was lost,could you please give me a quick explanation for the map size and the tile size?

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**Author:** ![bjorn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/bjorn/32/1599_2.png) [@bjorn](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/bjorn)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/having-trouble-with-the-map-size-and-tile-size/659/4 "2015-07-21T21:18:33Z")

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The math is really very simple. Given a tile width of 32 and a map width of 10 tiles, the width in pixels of the map will be 32 x 10 = 320.