diff --git a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/boardEngine.js b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/boardEngine.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f5376f1b..000000000
--- a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/boardEngine.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * boardEngine.js — build one map on whichever engine the embed asked for, the way this board builds all
- * of its maps: engine from resolveMapProvider, script + CSS ensured, RTL shaping installed before `new
- * Map`, the style from the registry ('paper' = Mapbox light / OpenFreeMap positron), labels in the
- * reader's language, attribution added. Used by the geographic map AND the language-tree whiteboard, so
- * the two can never drift apart on an engine detail.
- *
- * whiteboard:true hides every basemap layer except the background once the style loads. The style is
- * still loaded because it is what declares the GLYPH server: a hand-typed glyph URL is how labels
- * silently vanished on one engine before (library/maps/label-font.js).
- */
-import { resolveMapProvider } from '@map/composables/useMapProvider.js'
-import { ensureEngineScript, engineGlobal, ensureEngineCSS, engineStylesheetUrl, engineUiLocale } from '@map/composables/useMapInstance.js'
-import { resolveNamedStyle } from '@map/styles/registry.js'
-import { installRtlTextPlugin } from '@map/maps/rtl-text.js'
-import { localizeBasemapLabels } from '@map/maps/localize-labels.js'
-import { addMapAttribution } from '@map/composables/useMapAttribution'
-
-export function readerLang(profileConfig) {
-  const pc = profileConfig || {}
-  if (pc.locale || pc.lang) return String(pc.locale || pc.lang)
-  try { return new URLSearchParams(location.search).get('lang') || document.documentElement.lang || 'en' } catch { return 'en' }
-}
-
-/**
- * @returns {Promise<{ map, provider } | { error: string, provider }>}  resolves once the style has loaded
- */
-export async function createBoardMap(el, profileConfig, { center = [60, 20], zoom = 1.4, whiteboard = false, boundaries = true, background = '#f3f3f1', token = '' } = {}) {
-  const provider = resolveMapProvider(profileConfig)
-  try { await ensureEngineScript(provider) } catch (_) { /* reported below */ }
-  const gl = engineGlobal(provider)
-  if (!gl) return { provider, error: provider === 'maplibre' ? 'MapLibre' : 'Mapbox' }
-  installRtlTextPlugin(gl)
-  const css = engineStylesheetUrl(provider)
-  if (css) await ensureEngineCSS(el, css)
-  const lang = readerLang(profileConfig)
-  // The host's token by the same ladder the production maps use: profile-config tk, then the token
-  // ProfileLoader provides (a tokenUrl token-service answer, or the page's shared token), then the page global.
-  const tk = profileConfig?.tk || token || (typeof window !== 'undefined' && window.MAP_TOKEN) || ''
-  const map = new gl.Map({
-    container: el,
-    style: resolveNamedStyle('paper', provider).style || 'mapbox://styles/mapbox/light-v11',
-    accessToken: tk,
-    locale: engineUiLocale(lang, provider),
-    center, zoom, projection: 'mercator', attributionControl: false,
-    // a whiteboard is not a world: no wrap-around copies of the tapestry at low zoom
-    renderWorldCopies: !whiteboard,
-  })
-  addMapAttribution(map, { boundaries, basemap: !whiteboard })
-  await new Promise((res) => map.once('load', res))
-  if (whiteboard) {
-    for (const l of map.getStyle().layers || []) {
-      try {
-        if (l.type === 'background') map.setPaintProperty(l.id, 'background-color', background)
-        else map.setLayoutProperty(l.id, 'visibility', 'none')
-      } catch (_) { /* a layer the engine will not touch is left as it is */ }
-    }
-  } else {
-    try { localizeBasemapLabels(map, lang) } catch (_) { /* a nicety, never a broken map */ }
-  }
-  return { map, provider }
-}
-
-/** Reduced motion, read LIVE (never cached): under it every camera change is a jump. */
-export function reducedMotion() {
-  try { return window.matchMedia('(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)').matches } catch (_) { return false }
-}
diff --git a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiBoundedSetMap.vue b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiBoundedSetMap.vue
index 8b2d75b8d..72af5e0ba 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiBoundedSetMap.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiBoundedSetMap.vue
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import { useShadowStyles } from '@map/composables/useShadowStyles.js'
 import { labelFont } from '@map/maps/label-font.js'
 import { whiteboardProjection } from '@map/maps/whiteboard-projection.js'
 import { addTieredPointLayers } from '@map/charts/whiteboard/tiered-points.js'
-import { createBoardMap, reducedMotion } from '../boardEngine.js'
+import { createWhiteboardMap, reducedMotion } from '@map/maps/whiteboard-map.js'
 import { useBoardState } from '../useBoard.js'
 import { useGiT } from '../useGiT.js'
 import { layoutBoundedSet } from '@map/components/charts/boundedSet.js'
@@ -83,11 +83,11 @@ function openAndFrame(slug, feature) {
 
 onMounted(async () => {
   try {
-    const made = await createBoardMap(el.value, board.profileConfig?.value || {},
+    const made = await createWhiteboardMap(el.value, board.profileConfig?.value || {},
       { whiteboard: true, boundaries: false, center: [0, 0], zoom: 1 })
     const map = markRaw(made.map || made)
     mapRef.value = map
-    // ★ createBoardMap ALREADY AWAITS LOAD. boardEngine resolves only after
+    // ★ createWhiteboardMap ALREADY AWAITS LOAD. The library helper resolves only after
     // `await new Promise(res => map.once('load', res))`, so by the time this runs the event has
     // fired and will not fire again — a second `map.on('load', …)` never runs and the layers are
     // never added. The chart then draws a basemap-less whiteboard with no source on it: empty,
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ onMounted(async () => {
       } catch (_) { /* no ResizeObserver: the initial fit stands */ }
     }
     // ★ CALLED UNCONDITIONALLY, AND THE GUARD THAT USED TO BE HERE IS WHY THIS WAS BROKEN TWICE.
-    // createBoardMap only resolves after `await map.once('load')`, so by here the event HAS fired.
+    // createWhiteboardMap only resolves after `await map.once('load')`, so by here the event HAS fired.
     // The previous line read `map.loaded() ? setup() : map.once('load', setup)` — but loaded()
     // does not mean "the load event fired", it means "the style AND every tile are loaded", and
     // the basemap tiles were still arriving. So it returned false, took the else branch, and
diff --git a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSetMap.vue b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSetMap.vue
index 45aad8372..813fa0faa 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSetMap.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSetMap.vue
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import { useShadowStyles } from '@map/composables/useShadowStyles.js'
 import { labelFont } from '@map/maps/label-font.js'
 import { whiteboardProjection } from '@map/maps/whiteboard-projection.js'
 import { addTieredPointLayers } from '@map/charts/whiteboard/tiered-points.js'
-import { createBoardMap, reducedMotion } from '../boardEngine.js'
+import { createWhiteboardMap, reducedMotion } from '@map/maps/whiteboard-map.js'
 import { useBoardState } from '../useBoard.js'
 import { useGiT } from '../useGiT.js'
 import { ringInfo, CENTRE_COLOR } from '../ringInfo.js'
@@ -147,11 +147,11 @@ function openAndFrame(slug, feature) {
 
 onMounted(async () => {
   try {
-    const made = await createBoardMap(el.value, board.profileConfig?.value || {},
+    const made = await createWhiteboardMap(el.value, board.profileConfig?.value || {},
       { whiteboard: true, boundaries: false, center: [0, 0], zoom: 1 })
     const map = markRaw(made.map || made)
     mapRef.value = map
-    // ★ createBoardMap ALREADY AWAITS LOAD. boardEngine resolves only after
+    // ★ createWhiteboardMap ALREADY AWAITS LOAD. The library helper resolves only after
     // `await new Promise(res => map.once('load', res))`, so by the time this runs the event has
     // fired and will not fire again — a second `map.on('load', …)` never runs and the layers are
     // never added. The chart then draws a basemap-less whiteboard with no source on it: empty,
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ onMounted(async () => {
       ready.value = true
     }
     // ★ CALLED UNCONDITIONALLY, AND THE GUARD THAT USED TO BE HERE IS WHY THIS WAS BROKEN TWICE.
-    // createBoardMap only resolves after `await map.once('load')`, so by here the event HAS fired.
+    // createWhiteboardMap only resolves after `await map.once('load')`, so by here the event HAS fired.
     // The previous line read `map.loaded() ? setup() : map.once('load', setup)` — but loaded()
     // does not mean "the load event fired", it means "the style AND every tile are loaded", and
     // the basemap tiles were still arriving. So it returned false, took the else branch, and
diff --git a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiMap.vue b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiMap.vue
index df055ab25..7f3175b33 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiMap.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiMap.vue
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ import ShareButton from '@map/components/map-controls/ShareButton.vue'
 import HelpButton from '@map/components/map-controls/HelpButton.vue'
 import { useBoardState, EMBED_PATH } from '../useBoard.js'
 import { useGiT } from '../useGiT.js'
-import { createBoardMap, reducedMotion } from '../boardEngine.js'
+import { createWhiteboardMap, reducedMotion } from '@map/maps/whiteboard-map.js'
 import { ACCESS_DETAILS, BANDS, DETAIL_FILL, DETAIL_RIM, BAND_COLOR, label } from '../model.js'
 
 const T = useGiT()
@@ -285,7 +285,16 @@ onMounted(async () => {
   }).catch(() => { adm1Table = null })
   try {
     if (!mapEl.value) return
-    const made = await createBoardMap(mapEl.value, board.profileConfig.value, { token: injectedToken?.value || '' })
+    // ★ THE FOUR OPTIONS ARE STATED, NEVER DEFAULTED. This is the ONE geographic caller — the three
+    // whiteboard callers all pass whiteboard:true — and the library's defaults are the inverse of what
+    // a real map needs (whiteboard:true, boundaries:false, centre [0,0], zoom 1), because it was
+    // extracted for the whiteboard case. Leaning on defaults here meant a blank basemap and no
+    // boundary attribution the moment the import moved. Stating them makes this call read the same
+    // against either module.
+    const made = await createWhiteboardMap(mapEl.value, board.profileConfig.value, {
+      whiteboard: false, boundaries: true, center: [60, 20], zoom: 1.4,
+      token: injectedToken?.value || '',
+    })
     if (made.error) { err.value = T('messages.engineMissing', `The ${made.error} map engine did not load.`, { engine: made.error }); return }
     const map = made.map
     if (unmounted) { try { map.remove() } catch (_) {} return }
diff --git a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiTree.vue b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiTree.vue
index fd8cde938..617bb1f0f 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiTree.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiTree.vue
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ import ZoomOutButton from '@map/components/map-controls/ZoomOutButton.vue'
 import HelpButton from '@map/components/map-controls/HelpButton.vue'
 import { useBoardState } from '../useBoard.js'
 import { useGiT } from '../useGiT.js'
-import { createBoardMap, reducedMotion } from '../boardEngine.js'
+import { createWhiteboardMap, reducedMotion } from '@map/maps/whiteboard-map.js'
 import { treeScope, TREE_COLOR } from '../model.js'
 import { buildTreePoster, posterPrintHtml } from '../treePoster.js'
 import { openPrintFrame } from '@map/composables/printInPlace.js'
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ function frame(coords) {
 async function build() {
   const t = await board.loadTree()
   if (unmounted || !el.value || mapRef.value) return
-  const made = await createBoardMap(el.value, board.profileConfig.value, { whiteboard: true, boundaries: false, center: [0, 0], zoom: 1, token: injectedToken?.value || '' })
+  const made = await createWhiteboardMap(el.value, board.profileConfig.value, { whiteboard: true, boundaries: false, center: [0, 0], zoom: 1, token: injectedToken?.value || '' })
   if (made.error) { err.value = T('messages.engineMissing', `The ${made.error} map engine did not load.`, { engine: made.error }); return }
   if (unmounted) { try { made.map.remove() } catch (_) {} return }
   const map = made.map