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Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

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Re: Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

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https://maptoposter.penk.in/ Using Claude Code and OP's library, I've put it on the internets. Web hosting is cheap(free) and generation takes some time

I get an ambiguous error when submitting a request. Error: Generation failed: ==================================================

yup, something to fix in the future. I suspect it couldn't find city coordinates

Re: Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

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post #70
post #52

There is a related project which I used several times: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads Edit: it outputs SVGs and you can try it online. Anvaka (author) has other really cool dataviz projects.

Kinda sad that maptoposter uses png. SVG is so much better in this case, if you want to actually print a poster!

It does support SVG, --format=svg

Re: Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

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post #16

I tried it in a python3 venv, but the download data step is stuck at 0% unfortunately.

The bar only updates once that entire step is complete (ie, if step 1 of 3 is downloading roads, it won't tell you what % of roads have been downloaded, but rather it will remain at 0% until all roads are downloaded at which point it will jump to 33%).

Thank you, it worked with the help of your tips!
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