Show HN: Generate Visual Sitemap from sitemap.xml, just write URL

I tried it on my company&#x27;s website, surroundtech.com. It just produced a parent node and a very wide tree of child pages. Not useful in any way.<p>The website is built using a CMS that&#x27;s part of our product line, which auto-generates a sitemap.xml file. It also automatically produces a Sitemap page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;surroundtech.com&#x2F;sitemap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;surroundtech.com&#x2F;sitemap</a>. The two tabs of interest are &quot;Cards&quot;, which shows how each page would look when shared via social media links, and &quot;Sitemap Tree&quot; which shows the (non-graphical) page tree.<p>To be fair to the visual tool, our auto-generated xml is just a flat list of urls, and our auto-generated url routing is a flat list of uniquely named pages rather than a &#x2F;-separated hierarchy. To create our own sitemap page we use the hierarchy that&#x27;s built into our CMS, which also creates the top-level menu on the site.

Neat design! I made related a tool that crawls a given URL and generates a 3D sitemap (essentially a directed graph): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;schedutron&#x2F;visualnet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;schedutron&#x2F;visualnet</a>

Doesn&#x27;t work at all on my custom-generated sitemap.xml which is valid and accepted by search engines. Worse than that, it displays a bogus diagram rather than an error.

Without support for Sitemap-Index and pretty standard Wordpress Sitemaps this tool is little bit .... &quot;tried it, doesn&#x27;t work&quot;

I like this idea a lot.<p>As sibling comments point out, there are kinks to work out in mapping out different website structures, and I would add the suggestion that greater information density could improve the UX.<p>But just think about the collective thousands of hours spent looking for things on websites. Helping a fraction of us find things a bit faster would add up to a big impact.

How does this work? I pressed the Create Sitemap button and it brought me to an unrelated page. Where&#x27;s the input field to put my URL in?

Tried on a site URL; error Sitemap.xml file is absent or have errors.<p>I thought this service would explore links and draw site map for me..

I&#x27;ve used visualsitemaps.com and really like it, seems to be way further along than this

Does anyone know if the graphing is done with a specific library or tool?

Import XML sitemap feature is one of many functions, but not major. Octopus.do is UX prototyping tool for creating Visual Sitemap from the very beginning.

it seems it doesn&#x27;t support &lt;sitemapindex&gt;

A couple observations:<p>1. The design looks similar to Hey.com<p>2. The domain name&#x2F;name is like Octopus Deploy.

Benefit?