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Visualization of all roads within any city

16 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 4 stories, 12 comments · first 2020-01-20 · latest 2026-09-24

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    Visualization of all roads within any city
    story by bookofjoe · 2026-09-24 · 0 comments
  2. 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.
    comment by stanko · 2026-01-17 · in Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city
  3. It's JavaScript and exposes an extensive API via console: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/blob/main/API.md#loadin...
    comment by noiv · 2024-12-22 · in City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at once
  4. …with population larger than 100,000 people and stored into a very simple protobuf format. [0] https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads
    comment by HellsMaddy · 2024-12-22 · in City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at once
  5. Link to the github project: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads
    comment by hiatus · 2024-12-22 · in City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at once
  6. …definition of the word ("motorway", etc) https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway?uselang=en https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/blob/08a21bce05ad2b08d4...
    comment by adamjb · 2021-06-06 · in City roads – This website renders every single road within a city
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    Visualization of all roads within any city
    story by botayhard · 2021-01-04 · 0 comments
  8. …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
    comment by judge2020 · 2020-01-23 · in City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
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    Visualization of all roads within any city
    story by Edouar1 · 2020-01-23 · 0 comments
  10. …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
    comment by conscion · 2020-01-23 · in City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
  11. …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.
    comment by anvaka · 2020-01-22 · in City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
  12. …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?
    comment by anvaka · 2020-01-22 · in City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
  13. …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…
    comment by anvaka · 2020-01-22 · in City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
  14. …get the boundaries... There is an ongoing discussion on the repository to give a better fallback: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/issues/7
    comment by anvaka · 2020-01-22 · in City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
  15. …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
    comment by parekhnish · 2020-01-22 · in City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
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    City-roads: Render every single road in any city
    story by joe_blank · 2020-01-20 · 0 comments