Hey there, I'm the author of the tool!<p>Just wanted to thank you for the comments, feedback and shares! I 'm very happy!<p>PS: If you liked that project you may find my other stuff interesting: <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aanvaka%20min_retweets%3A20&src=typed_query" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aanvaka%20min_retweets%3A...</a> - it's just a hobby but I love it :D
I love how elegant it is!<p>Unfortunately it can't seem to find most cities I try. Just one example, typing "New Hartford" only finds one in Iowa, instead of listing all of them [1]. Most other medium-sized towns I tried show no results at all.<p>I'd also love it if there were a way to export as SVG's -- these seem like they would make amazing posters to frame.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hartford" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hartford</a>
Neat, but this does not seem to be all roads, it seems to be everything tagged highway=*.<p>Specifically, non-motorized walking/biking paths and mountain bike trails (highway=path) are rendered.<p>Ref: <a href="https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=Marquette%2C%20MI&areaId=3600134503" rel="nofollow">https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=Marquette%2C%20MI&are...</a>
Beautiful! I tried it with quite a few cities. Most of the cities hardly look as if they were planned out!<p>A few from the Wikipedia list [0] looks nice though.<p>[0]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_cities" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_cities</a><p>Quezon City: <a href="https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=Quezon" rel="nofollow">https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=Quezon</a> City&areaId=3600106569<p>Chandigarh: <a href="https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=Chandigarh&areaId=3601942809" rel="nofollow">https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=Chandigarh&areaId=360...</a><p>Singapore: <a href="https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=Singapore&areaId=3600536780" rel="nofollow">https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=Singapore&areaId=3600...</a>
It's really simple looking, but I entered my city, and I just love the graphic that was rendered. Is there any chance of making it produce SVGs to download?
Would love to find something like this for rural areas. Maddening sometimes how details disappear from most online maps based only on zoom level rather than on feature density.
The site times out, YC has struck.<p>It says it is contacting openstreetmaps, but the global mapping community is called openstreetmap (no 's').
It seems to be missing most of Scotland. No Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Perth, or Inverness. It does have Stirling, Aberdeen, and Falkirk. It's also missing parts of Australia: no Perth, Brisbane, Darwin, or Alice Springs.
Awesome project, love the output!<p>My wishlist item would be to have an option to render an additional x miles around the city limits boundaries to help incorporate communities that have the same city in their address but are technically not within the city limits.
Can someone either explain the use case for this to me, or explain what I'm missing? Too small to be of any use to me, no street names... maybe it's just a "cool" thing you put on a mug or get printed on a T-shirt?<p>I'm probably just not in touch with my inner artist and am too quick to look for the functional / business purpose of this.<p>By the way, really solid work and very kind of the author to share this. I can still appreciate it even if I don't see how I'd ever need to use it.
Really great idea and nicely made! Congratulations! I'm considering making a poster out of it, with our home town. I think my wife would love to have it. Seeing it on the wall would probably make us less home-sick.<p>How complicated would it be to add the option of highlighting one or two streets? Something like, make the street line thicker or change its color.
> Something went wrong. The error was:<p>> {
"statusError": 504,
"message": "Unexpected status code 504 when calling <a href="https://overpass.openstreetmap.ru/cgi/interpreter"" rel="nofollow">https://overpass.openstreetmap.ru/cgi/interpreter"</a>
}<p>And the referenced url 404s
It's definitely missing a lot of roads in my city.<p>Compare it's view to Beaverton, Oregon:
<a href="https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=Beaverton%2C%20OR&areaId=3600423111" rel="nofollow">https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=Beaverton%2C%20OR&are...</a><p>With the Google Maps view:
<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5029349,-122.8365195,13.75z" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5029349,-122.8365195,13.75z</a><p>It's like most of the Cedar Hills neighborhood doesn't exist. It also drew a line for a power line where there is no road.
It's interesting to see how some cities are spread out. For instance, Aleppo is pretty interesting in that it has clusters of compact streets growing out of the center.
Looks great - one observation, when I enter Kansas City I have to choose MO or KS. It would be great to be able to select a county or metro area.<p>I wonder if something similar was used to create the laser cut wood maps you can find on Etsy[0].<p>[0] <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/605571478/kansas-city-wooden-map-laser-cut-wood" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/listing/605571478/kansas-city-wooden-ma...</a>
That's an impressive work! It runs smoothly even for large cities.<p>I guess you cannot really fix it because it probably comes from the data you are using, but for Tokyo the default zoom is broken because a bunch of unrelated places is also displayed.<p>Do you think you could also include the railroads/subways? I think here it is a more relevant way of finding your path in the city rather than the roads and the result could be quite interesting.
Typed in 'Brisbane', an Australian city of 3 million, but the only result that came up was Brisbane, Santa Monica.<p>Any thoughts on international support? :)
If you folks are enjoying this but want more flexibility, check out Mapbox - it lets you define fully custom styles for OpenStreetMap maps and download them as high res images or embed them in apps (basically this but more flexible and a bit harder to use). <a href="https://www.mapbox.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mapbox.com/</a>
I did my city. Lots of streets (that are decades old) are not on there, including the street that my house is on (which has been there since at least 1970). Other streets cut out and then pick back up a half mile or so later. What happened to the road in between those two points?
Did you compare to a regular old canvas doing path calls?<p>Or SVG?<p>Most web browsers these days should GPU accelerate line drawing, making the whole lot one single openGL/directX/vulkan api call.<p>If it doesn't perform equivalently, it's really a browser bug, and ought to be fixed.
Weird edge case: there's a big gap in the middle of London where the City of London is. Technically the City of London is a seperate entity, but for most practical day to day purposes they are considered the same.
Export to something printable would be really neat. The export to PNG is cute but it's 2K wide, not useful for anything but potentially a desktop background.