Custom Embedded Map for Annual Reports

How a custom embedded explorer.land map helps the Wyss Academy for Nature show project locations inside its annual report, while keeping readers within its own branded website experience.
Wyss Academy Custom Maps
Client
Wyss Academy for Nature
Use case
Project mapping and presentation · Sponsor and funder reporting
How we helped
Custom solution · explorer.land
Capabilities
Custom Map
01 · The client

Wyss Academy for Nature

Wyss Academy for Nature
The Wyss Academy for Nature is a Swiss organization focused on bridging the gap between scientific knowledge and on-the-ground action, working through regional Hubs to co-design and implement practical solutions for sustainable conservation and human well-being.
02 · The challenge

Creating a seamless interactive experience inside the Wyss Academy website

The Wyss Academy for Nature wanted to make its landscape-level work easier to explore through an interactive map, while keeping readers inside its own digital environment.


For an annual report, readers should be able to move from narrative to map and back again without feeling redirected to a separate platform or a different brand experience.

The system needed to
  • Visually aligned with the Wyss Academy’s branding,

  • Simple enough for annual report readers to use,
  • Focused only on the most relevant map actions,
  • Connected to the Academy’s own project pages,
  • Integrated smoothly into the annual report experience
A standard external map link would not have solved this. It would have taken readers away from the report and introduced unnecessary navigation steps.

The goal was to bring explorer.land’s interactive map functionality into the Wyss Academy website in a clean, branded, and reader-friendly way.
03 · Our approach

A custom branded embedded map for the Wyss Academy annual report

The solution was a custom embedded explorer.land map designed specifically for the Wyss Academy’s annual report 2025.

Instead of using a generic map embed, the map was adapted to fit the Academy’s website experience, branding, and communication needs.

The result is an interactive map that allows readers to explore project locations directly within the annual report, while keeping the visual experience coherent and the user journey simple.

Step 01

A map experience aligned with Wyss Academy’s brand

The solution was a custom embedded explorer.land map designed specifically for the Wyss Academy’s annual report 2025.

Instead of using a generic map embed, the map was adapted to fit the Academy’s website experience, branding, and communication needs.

The result is an interactive map that allows readers to explore project locations directly within the annual report, while keeping the visual experience coherent and the user journey simple.

Step 02

Only the map actions readers actually need

The map interface was simplified to avoid unnecessary tools or platform actions.

In the context of an annual report, readers do not need the full explorer.land experience. They need to quickly understand where projects are located, open a project card, and move to more information when relevant.

By keeping only the useful actions, the embedded map becomes easier to navigate and more aligned with the purpose of the page.

Step 03

Project cards connected to Wyss Academy pages

Each project card on the map can guide readers to the corresponding solutionscape page on the Wyss Academy website.

This creates a seamless journey: readers discover a location on the map, open the project card, and continue reading within the Wyss Academy’s own website.

The result is a map that does more than show locations. It supports the Academy’s content structure, keeps traffic within its digital ecosystem, and helps readers move from spatial overview to project detail without friction.

04 · The results

A smooth way to explore Wyss Academy projects inside the annual report

The custom embedded map gives the Wyss Academy for Nature a more seamless way to present project locations directly within its own website and annual report experience.

Instead of sending readers to an external map or separate platform, the map supports the Academy’s existing communication flow.

Readers can explore selected project locations, open clean project cards, and continue to the relevant Wyss Academy project pages without leaving the website environment.

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01

Branded map inside the report

Readers explore project locations on a map styled to match the Wyss Academy, without leaving its website.

02

A simpler journey

Only the essential map actions remain, so readers move from story to location to project detail in a few steps.

03

Readers stay on the Wyss Academy’s website

Each project card links to the matching solutionscape page, so traffic stays within the Wyss Academy’s own website.

05 · Replication

Bring interactive maps into your own website

Many organisations want to show where their work takes place, but an external map link takes readers away from their story and their brand. A custom embedded map adds that spatial context directly to the pages they already publish.

  • publish an annual report, impact report or campaign page and want readers to see where your projects are
  • need the map to match your own branding, not a third-party platform
  • already have project pages and want the map to lead readers to them
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