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twoslide
Really beautiful output! I think I saw a similar site that had monetized the idea by selling prints and/or engravings.
amelius
I think the monetization should be done by OpenStreetMaps, in all fairness.
blunte
Gorgeous clean renders. Now I want to print and hang these all around my house!
mywacaday
Really nice output, would be nice if you could include rivers, they are core to the identity of a lot of places.
mattlondon
It also appears to render footpaths in parks etc, which makes it look a bit weird in places - the monochrome rendering made it hard for me to find locations and the landmarks I am used to seeing (i.e. major parks and green space) were hard to find as they had "roads" criss-crossing them (when they don't in real life)
skymer
It rendered my dead-end, private driveway. Does this mean that the data doesn't distinguish "roads" from other paths, that the data has some errors, or that the program is rendering more than just labeled "roads"?
atatatat
> the program is rendering more than just labeled "roads"
JimDabell
I was surprised to see that it included the structure of a garden maze in my local park that is totally unmaintained and that I’ve never seen anybody enter.
habi
If it’s mapped as `highway`=something in OpenSteetMap it will show up on this site ;)
bluenose69
The lack of street names, coastlines, line-width cues, etc., can demand close study to find even familiar features. This, and the spareness of the interface, makes for a very captivating website. Streets are a maze well worth exploring.
bellyfullofbac
To be pedantic, the map is not the territory. If there are new roads not yet in Open Street Map, this website won't render it.
rchoudhury
Not sure what you expected, nor what value your critique offers.
mpva
This is really cool. Kudos
dkobia
Very nicely done and beautiful vector output.
social_quotient
Cool project!

Wish I could output this to an svg so I could do a high res print for a wall photo.

Other small detail. Would be cool if the url updated so I could just send a link to the press arched page.

detritus
You can output this as an SVG - just click 'Customise' and find the relevant option to do so.

This just takes data from OpenStreetMap, which itself allows for exportation of SVG data - but everythng available, not just roads.

sklargh
Looking at this through the lens of TTRPG referee - this thing is gold. I'm always looking for blank basemaps I can easily place a hex layer over or use as hex detail.
jokoon
Not sure why people says this is awesome. This data is publicly available and requires low processing to be displayed.
habi
But it needs to be done. And this site makes it easily available for any city you want.
zeeZ
I'm impressed that it worked so smoothly after I entered Tokyo. Fully expected my phone's browser to crash at any time as it proceeded to download 34MB of data. Scrolling and zooming didn't even stutter.

I've done a thing with the same base idea in the past, and absolutely love the style of those things, especially if there are enough roads available to get a more dense shape: https://christian.rinjes.me/posts/2020-11-25-tokyo-street-ar...