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Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once

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Post by anvaka » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 10:22 PM UTC

ym705 wrote: post #54

anvaka wrote: post #20

Hey 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

Your projects are awesome anvaka! Please continue doing those!

Sincerely thank you. I'm so happy to know this!

Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once

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Post by reaperducer » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 10:22 PM UTC

asdasdasdasdwd wrote: post #32

sethammons wrote: post #9

> Something went wrong. The error was: > { "statusError": 504, "message": "Unexpected status code 504 when calling https://overpass.openstreetmap.ru/cgi/interpreter" } And the referenced url 404s

Try a smaller city. This rendered almost immediately for me: https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=La%20Plata%2C%20Argen...

Try a smaller city. This rendered almost immediately for me

I tried Sandy Valley, Nevada. Doesn't get much smaller than that.

Unexpected status code 504 when calling https://overpass.openstreetmap.ru/cgi/interpreter

Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once

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Post by anvaka » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 10:23 PM UTC

iagovar wrote: post #31

anvaka wrote: post #20

Hey 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

It's pretty cool mate. Gonna make a wallpaper with it.

Yay! I'd love to know how it goes! I'm myself not sure what would be the best resolution and line thickness to do wallpapers. If you find something appealing - please share?

Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once

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Post by exdsq » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 10:23 PM UTC

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.

Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once

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Post by pfundstein » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 10:24 PM UTC

anvaka wrote: post #20

Hey 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

Tokyo (massive map) seems a bit buggy, and there's several distinct groups of roads loading. Awesome tool nonetheless!

Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once

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Post by anvaka » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 10:26 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #42

I 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. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hartford

Thank you!

I checked here https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=New+Hartfor... - looks like all other `New Hartford` have type "node" in the database, which doesn't give boundaries of the cities.

We are thinking about fallback here: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/issues/7 but what might work better in short term: try entering a county name, and then zoom in onto the place. It is not as convenient as having a city boundaries, sorry about that.

Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once

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Post by anvaka » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 10:28 PM UTC

fralewsmi wrote: post #43

jlv2 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do you guys think it would be worth removing the foot paths? Someone here proposes to remove them altogether: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/issues/3 - I'm not sure yet which direction would make more sense?

Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once

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Post by oh_sigh » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 10:28 PM UTC

tnorthcutt wrote: post #51

oh_sigh wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That one is also from anvaka :)

Funny. I wonder if the similar visual styles led me to connect the two despite not even remembering what exactly the terrain height mapping one was.

Now I feel kind of silly suggesting to this person a great idea that was actually...their own.

Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once

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Post by anvaka » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 10:29 PM UTC

chadlavi wrote: post #52

Huh, didn't find my hometown somehow. Dies this only work for cities over a certain size?

If you are able to find your town here https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ - and the osm type for the found place is "relationship" not node - it should work.

We are trying to find a fallback for `node` types here https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/issues/7 - we basically don't have accurate city boundaries for nodes.

Re: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once

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Post by rhn_mk1 » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 10:30 PM UTC

oh_sigh wrote: post #35

anvaka wrote: post #20

Hey 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.

OpenStreetMap data license (ODBL) allows any use of renderings as long as attribution is present, and that modifications to the data have been made available under ODBL.