An interesting resource for city street layout

taustinoc · January 2020

This website renders every single road within a city

And only the roads, with no labels. (And it will export as a PNG or a raster SVG.)

It has worked for every city I've tried, from the town I lived in in Missouri with less than 200 people to the city of Los Angeles.

[Deleted User] · January 2020

This is AWESOME. Didn't work so well for Hobart, Australia, or Venice Italy, which was a little disappointing, but I will show you a CC3+ map of Athens soon. Thanks so much for pointing me this way.

Monsen · January 2020

That's a cool tool. Could be really helpful for anyone using real world cities in their games, or anyone just wanting to use it as inspiration for believable modern cities.

[Deleted User] · January 2020

Or even medieval cities if using European cities. Here is Athens (with the sea imagined).

Loopysue · January 2020

Impressive.

Could this become a sister CA issue to the January one...

[Deleted User] · January 2020

Not necessary - just use the svg to dxf converter, and insert into CC3+.

taustinoc · January 2020

It apparently works (sort of) for entire countries, too (if you're patient and the servers aren't too busy). I just pulled up a map of every road in Zimbabwe, and Ireland.

DaltonSpence · January 2020

I can see the map but I can't save it. I'm using Edge. Should I use a different browser?

JimP · January 2020

Hmmm... Edge should work, but I used the newest Firefox.

taustinoc · January 2020

I can confirm that downloads don't work in Edge for me, either, even with the pop-up blocker turned on. Worked fine in Chrome, though.

DaltonSpence · January 2020

Worked with Firefox. Thanks. I am a bit curious as to how I can scale the map.

taustinoc · January 2020

The SVG export is vectored. It should scale infinitely.

DaltonSpence · January 2020

I was asking how one can interpret the scale of the map produced. (feet, meters, miles, kilometers, etc.) There is no scale bar to reference.

Monsen · January 2020

It's based on actual map data (from OpenStreetMap in this case), so you should be to just find some recognizable points and do a measure on the real map.

taustinoc · January 2020

That's a workaround, but yeah, Google maps has a "measure distance" tool.

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