Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads

Edit: it outputs SVGs and you can try it online. Anvaka (author) has other really cool dataviz projects.

Anyhow, nice work. Thanks!

https://prettymapp.streamlit.app/

Is there a reason you’ve defaulted to PNG that I’m missing?

Salem, OR and Salem, MA

Portland, OR and Portland, ME

Springfield, IL and Springfield, MO

Dallas, TX and Dallas, GA

Using Claude Code and OP's library, I've put it on the internets. Web hosting is cheap(free) and generation takes some time

*`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 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

```