prettymaps
Draw pretty maps from OpenStreetMap data! Built with osmnx +matplotlib + shapely (by marceloprates)
abstreet
Transportation planning and traffic simulation software for creating cities friendlier to walking, biking, and public transit (by a-b-street)
| prettymaps | abstreet | |
|---|---|---|
| 50 | 59 | |
| 11,633 | 7,935 | |
| 0.4% | 0.6% | |
| 8.2 | 4.7 | |
| 8 days ago | 2 months ago | |
| Jupyter Notebook | Rust | |
| GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
prettymaps
Posts with mentions or reviews of prettymaps.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-27.
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Show HN: Map2Image – Download Beautiful City Maps
These maps look great! Reminds me of a project I saw a long time ago [1]. Glad you made this downloadable for everyone who cannot write code.
P.S.: Now, I also have some (birthday) presents ;-)
[1] https://github.com/marceloprates/prettymaps
- A small set of Python functions to draw pretty maps from OpenStreetMap data
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Riddle me this: "Huku ni wapi?"
You can generate them yourself from Open Street Maps. Use this Google Colab. Source - prettymaps.
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Used Python to draw this map of Motijheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Check out this repo
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Shapefiles for planet? Geofabrik only seems to have shapefiles for Antartica.
Check out Pretty Maps, or the online version, and /r/prettymaps_
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Geovisualization test with OSM map data and matplotib for styling
Great work! I love osmnx, it's such a nice library. I remember using it at school to work out distance from fire stations across my city. There's this nice library that uses it called prettymaps, I've been meaning to take some time with it to do some sweet posters.
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This Week In Python
prettymaps – A small set of Python functions to draw pretty maps from OpenStreetMap data
- prettymaps v1.0.0 released
- prettymaps 1.0.0 released
- Prettymaps: A minimal Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap
abstreet
Posts with mentions or reviews of abstreet.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-09-01.
- A/B Street: Transportation planning and traffic simulation for friendlier cities
- Abstreet: Transportation planning and traffic simulation in Rust
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We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
This is super impressive! I'd agree the open-source tooling isn't there yet, but it's coming in a few places. I started a 3D street visualizer but it's only at the scope of a few blocks at a time, not as large as a city area although we'd like to get there someday: https://github.com/3dstreet/3dstreet/
There's also https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet for larger area simulation but with less visual fidelity
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Show HN: I built a transit travel time map
Super awesome! I like how you just color roads to show time. When you calculate polygons to try and cover the whole area in some 5-10 minute bucket, you can wind up with all sorts of odd holes far away from roads. Keep it simple.
https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet/pull/1075
- A/B Street
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Egregoria is a city simulation with high granularity
A|B Street does some of that, but it is not a game: https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet
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Not a Surprise: 101 Freeway Widening Shows Negative Results
You can build it out in a cool simulator and show it off.
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Bay Area drivers spend 97 hours a year in traffic. Why didn’t remote work end commute nightmares?
The tool you want exists, but you'll need to actually build the city in it. It's really an incredible program!
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing prettymaps and abstreet you can also consider the following projects:
vpype - The Swiss-Army-knife command-line tool for plotter vector graphics.
tilemaker - Make OpenStreetMap vector tiles without the stack
awesome-vector-tiles - Awesome implementations of the Mapbox Vector Tile specification
vsketch - Generative plotter art environment for Python
innosetup-docker - Docker image to create Windows installer executables with Inno Setup