BObookofjoe·Sep 24, 2026Submission
Visualization of all roads within any city
2 points · Open discussionanvaka
city-roads
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anvaka / city-roads
city-roads
Visualization of all roads within any city
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16 sourcesThere 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.
In Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite cityIt's JavaScript and exposes an extensive API via console: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/blob/main/API.md#loadin...
In City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at onceFrom the README[0]:
> To improve the performance of download, I indexed ~3,000 cities with population larger than 100,000 people and stored into a very simple protobuf format.
[0] https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads
In City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at onceLink to the github project: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads
In City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at onceIt filters to ways with the "highway" attribute, which has possible values including "footway", "bridleway", "steps", and "corridor" in addition to the ones you'd expect with the American definition of the word ("motorway", etc)
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway?uselang=en
https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/blob/08a21bce05ad2b08d4...
In City roads – This website renders every single road within a cityVisualization of all roads within any city
4 points · Open discussionThe OSM data license would still apply here, meaning you must attribute them [0].
As for the visuals of this map, chances are the MIT license for the repository applies to it as well [1] [not a lawyer].
0: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#3a._I_would_li...
1: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/blob/master/LICENSE
In City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at onceVisualization of all roads within any city
2 points · Open discussion≥ Yes, but it is (as of this moment) an experimental feature. Add "?svg=1" to the end of the URL to enable this feature [0].
[0]: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/issues/4
In City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at onceIf 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.
In City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at onceDo 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?
In City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at onceThank 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.
In City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at onceI 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
In City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at onceYes, but it is (as of this moment) an experimental feature.
Add "?svg=1" to the end of the URL to enable this feature [0].
[0]: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/issues/4
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