# Importing a world Map

**URL:** <https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/importing-a-world-map/1596>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [August 21, 2016, 8:45am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/importing-a-world-map/1596 "2016-08-21T08:45:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90db22/32.png) [@Frost](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/Frost)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 8:45am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/importing-a-world-map/1596/1 "2016-08-21T08:45:33Z")

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I’m extremely new to using tiled, I was wondering if there was a way to import a map (globe) as my map (tiled).

Specifically I want to take a world map and turn it into a hexagon based map (tiled).

Thanks for any help 😃

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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:** [August 22, 2016, 8:03am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/importing-a-world-map/1596/2 "2016-08-22T08:03:02Z")

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You need to create a tileset with the hexagonal tiles you need and then build your map in Tiled.

Of course, if you have a huge map and you already have it as an image, you will want to consider automating the process somehow. Tiled currently has no automated way to do this.