The site times out, YC has struck. It says it is contacting openstreetmaps, but the global mapping community is called openstreetmap (no 's').
Will fix the name! Thanks for catching
City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
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Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
#42I love how elegant it is!
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.
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.
Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
#43Neat, but this does not seem to be all roads, it seems to be everything tagged highway=*. Specifically, non-motorized walking/biking paths and mountain bike trails (highway=path) are rendered. Ref: https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=Marquette%2C%20MI&are...
In my case, I noticed many driveways were rendered when I did my town.
Same here, was interested to see it was only certain suburbs which had the driveways mapped.
Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
#44Typed in 'Brisbane', an Australian city of 3 million, but the only result that came up was Brisbane, Santa Monica. Any thoughts on international support? :)
I see that it is defined as `node` in osm: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=164...
We need `relationship` osm type to get the boundaries...
There is an ongoing discussion on the repository to give a better fallback: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/issues/7
Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
#45I see an empty page when I enter my city (after it downloads it, I disabled uBlock but that didn't change anything) :(
Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
#46Hey there, I'm the author of the tool! Just wanted to thank you for the comments, feedback and shares! I 'm very happy! PS: If you liked that project you may find my other stuff interesting: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aanvaka%20min_retweets%3A... - it's just a hobby but I love it :D
I don't know if open street data let's you monetize like this, but consider adding a link to Shutterfly or some similar site that would let the user get their road network of choice be printed out on a mug or t shirt. A site featured on hn a few weeks ago which showed height renderings of various locales let you do something like that.
This is already incorporated into the site. After the roads render, click "Customize", then "Onto a mug" and a link to zazzle.com will open to order a mug.
Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
#47It looks great, but is the rendering of the OSM data the main thing or am I overlooking a feature here?
from the GitHub: "beautiful art" I think the main feature is buying the rendering as a coffee mug.
Lol
I hope it has more potential than art, though art in itself is very strong and inspirational thing!
For example, one could use this tool to debug missing areas in OSM. You could also use it as a source of large natural graphs to study network flow, deseas propgation, etc.
Finally it could also be used for educational purposes: you could show various graph algorithms on this data with something more realistic than abstract graphs :)
Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
#48This is incredibly cool. Cheers.
Thank you !
Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
#49Apparently it can't load all of California, but other than that, this is really cool.
Locally it is limited by ram, video card capabilities. Remotely it depends on overpass turbo API being able to process huge request s. Which error do you see?
Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
#50Nice work! Easy to use (and fast).
Reminds me of this print I still have on my wall called "All Streets Limited" by Ben Fry.