GOA Maps
Generating detailed SVG city map posters in Python
I started this project in 2023, when I came across this project by Anvaka. I simply thought, oh, it would be cool to have not only streets but more map layers to create a nice poster for the wall. A few months of tinkering later, I finished my own tool to generate detailed SVG city map posters from OpenStreetMap data. You can find the project on my GitHub.
Then a good friend of mine, an F1 enthusiast, suggested that my tool would be perfect for making street circuit posters. For the color schemes, I used the colors of the constructor teams:
Check out my repo if you’d like such posters for yourself. In the example configs, there are a few color themes and street circuits to choose from, or you can create your own.
Later, it turned out that map data processing is a useful skill to have. For my UG dissertation project, I built a digital twin of the streets of Sheffield to test lane-keeping systems of autonomous driving systems in BeamNG. Ultimately, this led to me enrolling for a PhD in the same area. :)