City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by jlv2 » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 8:20 PM UTC

c0nsumer wrote: post #12

Neat, 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.

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

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Post by oxplot » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 8:30 PM UTC

anon767 wrote: post #15

My Girlfriend is an architect and she finds this tool great :) She asks if it would be possible to export these maps as .dwg file

Export to svg as explained in another comment, open with inkscape and export to dwg.

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

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Post by ajsharp » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 8:38 PM UTC

This is incredibly cool. Cheers.

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

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Post by seaish » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 8:41 PM UTC

Apparently it can't load all of California, but other than that, this is really cool.

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

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Post by ademars94 » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 8:44 PM UTC

It would be really neat to be able to set a custom resolution to render as a .png image. Like e.g. if somebody wanted to create a poster.

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

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 8:44 PM UTC

It's definitely missing a lot of roads in my city.

Compare it's view to Beaverton, Oregon: https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=Beaverton%2C%20OR&are...

With the Google Maps view: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5029349,-122.8365195,13.75z

It's like most of the Cedar Hills neighborhood doesn't exist. It also drew a line for a power line where there is no road.

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

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Post by dvasdekis » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 8:45 PM UTC

Typed in 'Brisbane', an Australian city of 3 million, but the only result that came up was Brisbane, Santa Monica.

Any thoughts on international support? :)

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

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Post by chillly » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 8:52 PM UTC

The site times out, YC has struck.

It says it is contacting openstreetmaps, but the global mapping community is called openstreetmap (no 's').

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

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Post by tantalor » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 8:52 PM UTC

Can I play Pac-Man on it?

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

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Post by werber » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 8:58 PM UTC

Unable to export to png in Safari on iPhone xs