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maptoposter
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originalankur / maptoposter

maptoposter

Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code.

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What it is

Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

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Observed mentions: 2026-01-17 10:13:57 UTC to 2026-01-18 11:37:01 UTC.

012026-01-17 10:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-17 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJan 17, 10:002026-01-17 11:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-17 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-17 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-17 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-17 13:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-17 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-17 14:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-17 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-17 15:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-17 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-17 16:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-17 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-17 17:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-17 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-17 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-17 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-17 19:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-17 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-17 20:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-17 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-17 21:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-17 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-17 22:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-17 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJan 17, 22:002026-01-17 23:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-18 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-18 01:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-18 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-18 02:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-18 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-18 03:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-18 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-18 04:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-18 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-18 05:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-18 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-18 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-18 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-18 07:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-18 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-18 08:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-18 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-18 09:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-18 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-18 10:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-18 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-18 11:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-18 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJan 18, 11:00

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Jan 18, 11:002026-01-18 11:00:00 UTC2026-01-18 12:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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Show HN: Create a Beautiful Interactive Map

Hi there, I just saw a cool city map project (https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter) gaining some attention on Hacker News. I'm building a similar product so I want to share it with you. If you're interested in beautiful maps, maybe give Tasmap a try. It's not just a static, beautiful map; it's dynamic and interactive, and connected with articles. There are 20+ well designed themes, and if you're not good at design, you can even have AI design it for you. You can embed it in your site or install it as an app on your phone. You can create a beautiful and useful map. Give it a try and share your thoughts with me!
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- for those of you that dont want to install this locally, run this inside docker *`Dockerfile`* ``` FROM python:3.12.10-slim-bookworm RUN apt-get update -q -y && apt-get install -q -y \ build-essential \ git \ python3-dev \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* RUN groupadd --gid 10000 python \ && useradd --uid 10000 --gid python --shell /bin/bash --create-home python WORKDIR /home/python/app RUN git clone https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter.git RUN chown -R python:python ./maptoposter # 5. Switch to non-root user USER python RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip && \ cd ./maptoposter && \ pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt CMD ["sleep", "infinity"] ``` *`main.sh`* ``` #!/usr/bin/env bash # https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter # Read the documentation to change themes and settings
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for each city # Get the directory where THIS script is located SCRIPT_DIR=$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" &> /dev/null && pwd) cd "$SCRIPT_DIR" || exit 1 # TODO: kolkata is done already, change to some other city both here and on that notepad.pw link in Chrome readonly CITY="kolkata" readonly COUNTRY="india" readonly CONTAINER_NAME="map_to_poster" if ! docker buildx build \ --file "Dockerfile" \ --progress none \ --tag "${CONTAINER_NAME}" \ --quiet .; then printf "Error: %s" "while attempting to build the docker container:${CONTAINER_NAME}" exit 1 fi if ! docker container run \ --detach \ --interactive \ --name "${CONTAINER_NAME}" \ --tty \ "${CONTAINER_NAME}"; then printf "Error: %s" "while attempting to run the docker container:${CONTAINER_NAME}" exit 1 fi container_id=$(docker ps -aqf "name=${CONTAINER_NAME}") if [ -z "$container_id" ]; then echo "Container not found!" else echo "The ID for ${CONTAINER_NAME} is: $container_id" fi docker exec -i "${CONTAINER_NAME}" /bin/bash << EOF cd /home/python/app/maptoposter python create_map_poster.py --city "${CITY}" --country "${COUNTRY}" EOF mkdir -p "${HOME}/map_to_poster" if ! docker cp "${container_id}":/home/python/app/maptoposter/posters "${HOME}/map_to_poster"; then printf "Error: %s" "while attempting to copy map files from container:${CONTAINER_NAME}" fi if ! docker stop "${CONTAINER_NAME}"; then printf "Error: %s" "stopping container:${CONTAINER_NAME}" fi if ! docker rm "${CONTAINER_NAME}"; then printf "Error: %s" "removing container:${CONTAINER_NAME}" fi ```
In Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

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