diff --git a/frontend/src/components/LocationMapTooltip.vue b/frontend/src/components/LocationMapTooltip.vue
index 37e95d8..e2e3bb3 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/LocationMapTooltip.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/components/LocationMapTooltip.vue
@@ -97,11 +97,15 @@ const blueprintUrl = computed(() => {
 // the wrong level's dimensions is precisely how a marker ends up plausibly
 // placed and wrong.
 const markerX = computed(() => {
-  return (props.left / dimensionsFor(props.levelid).width) * 100
+  const fraction = props.left / dimensionsFor(props.levelid).width
+  const { offsetX, scaleX } = paintedBox.value
+  return (offsetX + fraction * scaleX) * 100
 })
 
 const markerY = computed(() => {
-  return (props.top / dimensionsFor(props.levelid).height) * 100
+  const fraction = props.top / dimensionsFor(props.levelid).height
+  const { offsetY, scaleY } = paintedBox.value
+  return (offsetY + fraction * scaleY) * 100
 })
 
 // Marker style with counter-scale to maintain constant size
@@ -120,9 +124,33 @@ const markerStyle = computed(() => ({
 // lands in the grey gutter beside the map. Levels near 390:300 looked correct,
 // which is why it only affected some assets.
 //
-// The fix is to let the IMAGE size the frame: the frame shrink-wraps the drawing,
-// so a percentage of the frame IS a percentage of the drawing, whatever the
-// level's aspect ratio. The letterboxing moves out to the preview around it.
+// The preview is a fixed box and object-fit: contain paints the drawing inside it
+// at the drawing's own aspect ratio, so the drawing does not fill the box: it is
+// letterboxed on one axis. A marker placed at a percentage of the BOX therefore
+// lands somewhere else than the same percentage of the DRAWING, on any level
+// whose shape is not the box's.
+//
+// So convert: work out where the painted drawing sits inside the box, then map
+// the marker into box coordinates. Doing it here rather than by resizing the
+// frame keeps the centring transform below honest - its percentages resolve
+// against the element, so the element has to stay the size of the box.
+const PREVIEW_WIDTH = 390       // keep in step with .map-preview in the styles
+const PREVIEW_HEIGHT = 300
+const PREVIEW_ASPECT = PREVIEW_WIDTH / PREVIEW_HEIGHT
+
+// Fraction of the box the drawing covers, and the gap before it, per axis.
+const paintedBox = computed(() => {
+  const { width, height } = dimensionsFor(props.levelid)
+  const levelAspect = width / height
+  if (levelAspect >= PREVIEW_ASPECT) {
+    // Wider than the box: full width, bars above and below.
+    const scale = PREVIEW_ASPECT / levelAspect
+    return { scaleX: 1, offsetX: 0, scaleY: scale, offsetY: (1 - scale) / 2 }
+  }
+  // Taller than the box: full height, bars left and right.
+  const scale = levelAspect / PREVIEW_ASPECT
+  return { scaleX: scale, offsetX: (1 - scale) / 2, scaleY: 1, offsetY: 0 }
+})
 // Transform style that centers on the marker and zooms toward it
 const transformStyle = computed(() => {
   // Calculate translation to center the marker in the preview
@@ -265,12 +293,6 @@ watch(currentTheme, () => {
 
 .map-preview {
   position: relative;
-  /* Centres the aspect-fitted frame, which is where the letterboxing now
-     happens. The frame carries the drawing AND the marker, so the two can no
-     longer disagree. */
-  display: flex;
-  align-items: center;
-  justify-content: center;
   /* Smaller than it was: this is a glance-and-move-on preview, and at 500px it
      covered the row it was launched from. Aspect ratio kept. */
   width: 390px;
@@ -281,23 +303,21 @@ watch(currentTheme, () => {
 
 .map-transform {
   position: relative;
-  /* Shrink-wraps the image rather than filling the preview, so the box the
-     marker is positioned in is the box the drawing is painted in. */
-  max-width: 100%;
-  max-height: 100%;
+  /* Fills the preview. The centring transform translates by percentages, which
+     resolve against THIS element, so it must stay the size of the box it is
+     centring within. The letterbox is accounted for in the marker maths. */
+  width: 100%;
+  height: 100%;
   transition: transform 0.15s ease-out;
 }
 
 .map-image {
-  /* Sizes itself from the drawing, scaled down to fit the preview. NOT
-     width/height 100% with object-fit: contain - that painted the drawing
-     letterboxed inside a box the marker was measured against, which put the two
-     in different coordinate spaces on any level that is not 390:300. */
+  width: 100%;
+  height: 100%;
+  /* contain, so a level of any shape is shown whole and undistorted. Where the
+     bars fall is computed in paintedBox and folded into the marker position. */
+  object-fit: contain;
   display: block;
-  max-width: 100%;
-  max-height: 100%;
-  width: auto;
-  height: auto;
 }
 
 .marker-dot {