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Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city
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- giuliomagnifico 9mo agoNice! Thanks
- doophus 9mo agoWhy are big chunks of Sam Francisco missing (eg around the bridge) missing from the example?
- Sajarin 9mo agoThose smooth chunks are all (mostly) public park land. Known as Presidio and part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
- originalankur 9mo agoYou know your city.
- originalankur 9mo agopython create_map_poster.py -c "San Francisco" -C "USA" -t sunset -d 10000 -d should be approx. 10k to 14k given the size of the city. You can give it a shot.
- cinntaile 9mo agoIt says there are examples but I can't see them?
- originalankur 9mo agoPlease check on desktop, the table is hiding images in responsive mode - You can see the images on X here https://x.com/getpy/status/2009255303775174684 https://x.com/getpy/status/2009255303775174684
- cinntaile 9mo agoThanks, I didn't notice there was another column that I could sidescroll to!
- mft_ 9mo agoI believe (from a quick code check on my phone) it should be possible to output the images to SVG with a little tweak, thanks to your use of matplotlib? Is there a reason you’ve defaulted to PNG that I’m missing?
- originalankur 9mo agoValid Point @mft_ plt.savefig(output_file, format='svg', facecolor=THEME['bg']) should do it. I will add a --format parameter and make the change.
- Footprint0521 9mo agoHoly heck exporting to PDF/SVG for large cities is laggy, just patched the repo and did it for one over half a million people and it’s insanely slow lol
- originalankur 9mo agoThere is throttling in the code when making api request to respect the map provider as per their terms and conditions. Can make few thing parallel but it's a hobby project how many posters would one person want to generate?.
- tianqi 9mo agoThat's splendid. I've long wanted to make a jigsaw puzzle out of Sydney's road map, so I can familiarise myself with the layout of roads while having fun. That way I can reduce my reliance on nav app and become one of those old-school drivers.
- bobnamob 9mo agoThere's a reason Where 2 -> Google Maps happened in Sydney. The sheer number of one-way roads combined with the imposition of the harbour and the messy tunnel system make internalising Sydney navigation a life-long endeavour
- simonebrunozzi 9mo agoThe map of Venice seems to be the only one whose image is "squeezed" horizontally. Wondering why.
- originalankur 9mo agoneed to take into consideration the length and width of the city and choose distance appropriately. I haven't followed my own suggestion here - https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter?tab=readme-ov-file#distance-guide https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter?tab=readme-ov-f... will fix.
- hehe23 9mo agoHi! I generated a map as well, but indeed, the map is squeezed horizontally. I have here a screenshot from a map and the poster: https://photos.diffop.be/apps/photos/public/h6JKMJImLZCXutcTJDSs3bZ8PNIPUe6g https://photos.diffop.be/apps/photos/public/h6JKMJImLZCXutcT... I have tried adjusting -d, but it only affects the scale. Here is the command I used: python create_map_poster.py --city Leuven --country Belgium --distance 4000 --theme sunset
- emaro 9mo agoI tried it in a python3 venv, but the download data step is stuck at 0% unfortunately.
- originalankur 9mo agoIt will work, give it time. Also default distance is 29000. Give distance of 10000 to see faster results. It certainly is working as many users have generated maps.
- originalankur 9mo agoAlso note that as per their terms and conditions I need to give a user agent, so multiple users will be sharing same user agent right now.
- NoboruWataya 9mo agoThe bar only updates once that entire step is complete (ie, if step 1 of 3 is downloading roads, it won't tell you what % of roads have been downloaded, but rather it will remain at 0% until all roads are downloaded at which point it will jump to 33%).
- emaro 8mo agoThank you, it worked with the help of your tips!
- tomashubelbauer 9mo agoThree random themes for anyone who's Czech or likes Prague and doesn't want to set up the script locally: https://imgur.com/a/Ovg8mDW https://imgur.com/a/Ovg8mDW
- originalankur 9mo agoLooks beautiful. The gold+dark color does justice.
- xixixao 9mo agoWhat’s up with the Zizkovska tower highlight?
- hyperific 9mo agoAlso check out prettymapp https://prettymapp.streamlit.app/ https://prettymapp.streamlit.app/
- croisillon 9mo agoand https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads
- stephenlf 9mo agoThis repo is fantastic. The README should be the gold standard for OSS. Not to mention how stunning the outputs are. Thanks for sharing.
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- Kwpolska 9mo agoPretty cool! It would be great if there was a way to set coordinates manually, since Nominatim can sometimes produce mediocre results. Also, would be nice to have a way to render the same map in all themes, not just one.
- originalankur 9mo agoThe initial version were coordinates actually but then realised people mostly love their cities more than anything and it's easy that way. Will add this feature back as optional parameters.
- m-hodges 9mo agoEtsy sellers devastated
- arnavpraneet 9mo agowhat are the blue dots? (not water bodies i think?)
- thamer 9mo agoYes, the blue and orange dots are from the water and parks Nodes and Ways in the OSM data. It doesn't look like the orange and blue colors are part of the theme definitions, so the rendering library may be using some default values. This is why they are rendered in the same color on images using different theme files.
- Footprint0521 9mo agoI was curious about this too and it’s actually a bug— these blue dots are random parks or park features. Most parks are polygons, but less than 5% or them are points from volunteer mappers who didn’t make them polygons and so these stray points seem to slip through and get plotted as the matplotlib default color… If only I knew this before I printed it out and attached it all together with rasterbator lol
- Helmut10001 9mo agoSan Francisco looks nice, but there seems to be a problem with the projection in some of the sample images. It looks as if it isn't UTM but a global sphere projection, which isn't suitable for local renders. It's suspicious that the word 'projection' isn't mentioned in the Readme.
- jasongill 9mo agoThis is an artistic project to make a fun and artsy poster, so it's not at all "suspicious" that the map projection is not critical to the artwork. It also appears to be open source, so perhaps you can open a pull request with your improvements based on your cartographical experience.
- Helmut10001 9mo agoYou are absolutely correct. Suspicious was the wrong word and I did not mean to criticize the author or the work.
- jlarocco 9mo agoIt looks like the final images have some kind of vignetting to make the corners and outter edges fade away. Probably grabbing OSM tiles and doing some image processing. Looks neat!
- nycerrrrrrrrrr 9mo agoDoes anyone have recommendations for how to actually print a poster from images like these?
- 1970-01-01 9mo agoI remember one of these had a service that made a 3D relief map (3D print) and then framed it, so you could hang it onto a wall.
- hirako2000 9mo agoA good print on demand that delivers ?
- xnx 9mo agoIn the US, I've had good results with Staples
- dexterdog 9mo agodotphoto.com
- loloquwowndueo 9mo agoFor something DIY, Rasterbator.net can make you a poster-sized print in multiple sheets. You’ll need some elbow grease to assemble the print.
- jfengel 9mo agoFor what it's worth, I use Vistaprint. That's not based on an extensive comparison, just that it always works for me and seems comparable in price and quality to other services.
- fmajid 9mo agoEl-co Color in New Jersey is known for its affordable 20x30" poster prints. https://www.elcocolor.net/index.php/poster-special https://www.elcocolor.net/index.php/poster-special
- 7777777phil 9mo agoVery cool, thanks for sharing!!
- japoneris 9mo agoLooks amazing ! In my free time, i play with my laser cutting machine. It will save me some design time. Thanks
- dylan604 9mo agoWhat happens if there are multiple cities with the same name. Maybe this is a US specific problem, but there are many states with cities of the same name from another state. As a few examples: Salem, OR and Salem, MA Portland, OR and Portland, ME Springfield, IL and Springfield, MO Dallas, TX and Dallas, GA
- MengerSponge 9mo agoDon't even get started on American cities named after world cities: Paris, Munster, London, Toledo, Memphis, Athens,...
- tokai 9mo agoEvery country has those. There was some that found it very funny when Russia occupied New York last year (or last year again?).
- netsharc 9mo agoEven the name "New York" is a reference to an existing city...
- MengerSponge 9mo agoBut they had the decency to append "New". New Birmingham? New Athens? New Madrid? These are cyberpunk city names.
- ornornor 9mo agoThere is a Suisse in France, but no France in Switzerland afaik
- originalankur 9mo agolol, I didn't even think of it. May be I should start taking country too. Edge case :-p
- fat_cantor 9mo ago
- stanko 9mo agoThere is a related project which I used several times: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads Edit: it outputs SVGs and you can try it online. Anvaka (author) has other really cool dataviz projects.
- kingforaday 9mo agoAwesome! After I generate, where can I take that super res image and get a high quality photo print to frame?
- giarc 9mo agoReally depends on country you live in. Just google local printers and email them.
- colinbartlett 9mo agoThese demonstrate just how car-obsessed our society is. Depressing.
- Yash16 9mo agoAre you using a coding package or graph-based approach for this, or is it standard image generation? I’ve seen very similar results on https://picxstudio.com https://picxstudio.com —it’s an AI image generation platform.
- nl 9mo agoThis really needs to be `uvx` runnable.
- mvdwoord 9mo agoGreat project! It takes a bit of fiddling to get the distance parameter right in some cases, and two possible improvements would be to allow for coordinate input rather than city name so I can point it at a specific spot as the center of the map. Another one would be to output all styles simultaneously so I can visually select from the generated images. Anyhow, nice work. Thanks!
- vivzkestrel 9mo ago- for those of you that dont want to install this locally, run this inside docker *`Dockerfile`* ``` FROM python:3.12.10-slim-bookworm RUN apt-get update -q -y && apt-get install -q -y \ build-essential \ git \ python3-dev \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* RUN groupadd --gid 10000 python \ && useradd --uid 10000 --gid python --shell /bin/bash --create-home python WORKDIR /home/python/app RUN git clone https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter.git https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter.git RUN chown -R python:python ./maptoposter # 5. Switch to non-root user USER python RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip && \ cd ./maptoposter && \ pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt CMD ["sleep", "infinity"] ``` *`main.sh`* ``` #!/usr/bin/env bash # https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter # Read the documentation to change themes and settings for each city # Get the directory where THIS script is located SCRIPT_DIR=$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" &> /dev/null && pwd) cd "$SCRIPT_DIR" || exit 1 # TODO: kolkata is done already, change to some other city both here and on that notepad.pw link in Chrome readonly CITY="kolkata" readonly COUNTRY="india" readonly CONTAINER_NAME="map_to_poster" if ! docker buildx build \ --file "Dockerfile" \ --progress none \ --tag "${CONTAINER_NAME}" \ --quiet .; then printf "Error: %s" "while attempting to build the docker container:${CONTAINER_NAME}" exit 1 fi if ! docker container run \ --detach \ --interactive \ --name "${CONTAINER_NAME}" \ --tty \ "${CONTAINER_NAME}"; then printf "Error: %s" "while attempting to run the docker container:${CONTAINER_NAME}" exit 1 fi container_id=$(docker ps -aqf "name=${CONTAINER_NAME}") if [ -z "$container_id" ]; then echo "Container not found!" else echo "The ID for ${CONTAINER_NAME} is: $container_id" fi docker exec -i "${CONTAINER_NAME}" /bin/bash << EOF cd /home/python/app/maptoposter python create_map_poster.py --city "${CITY}" --country "${COUNTRY}" EOF mkdir -p "${HOME}/map_to_poster" if ! docker cp "${container_id}":/home/python/app/maptoposter/posters "${HOME}/map_to_poster"; then printf "Error: %s" "while attempting to copy map files from container:${CONTAINER_NAME}" fi if ! docker stop "${CONTAINER_NAME}"; then printf "Error: %s" "stopping container:${CONTAINER_NAME}" fi if ! docker rm "${CONTAINER_NAME}"; then printf "Error: %s" "removing container:${CONTAINER_NAME}" fi ```
- mindwork 9mo agohttps://maptoposter.penk.in/ https://maptoposter.penk.in/ Using Claude Code and OP's library, I've put it on the internets. Web hosting is cheap(free) and generation takes some time
- SaintQb 8mo ago[dead]