What is a POI in site analysis?
A point of interest: a mapped place such as a shop, café, school, clinic, stop or park. In site analysis, POIs show which facilities are around the site, how dense they are and where activity concentrates.
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Amenities & POI analysis
Amenities and POI analysis
Shops, cafés, schools, clinics, stops and parks around your site, counted and drawn: by category, as a density heat map, along the streets they make lively, as centres where they cluster, and as the catchments each service covers. Every point is a mapped place from OpenStreetMap.
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What you can make
The drawings, and what each one shows
POI type map (Pro)
Amenities by category, and a poster version with category badges and the streets with the most shops and food.
POI density heat (Pro)
Amenities, shops, leisure, tourism and offices counted per grid cell: where facilities concentrate.
Street vitality (Pro)
Places within 25 m of a street per 100 m of its length: which streets are lined with activity.
Activity centres (Pro)
The density peaks of each kind of facility, drawn as rings: where food, culture or services cluster.
Service territories (Pro)
Voronoi catchments of the nearest transit stop, school, food shop or service, with the gaps between them.
Annotated map (Pro)
The nearest facilities of each kind, labelled on the real map around the site.
Places & times (Max)
Four places around the site with their opening hours from OpenStreetMap and what happens there.
Urban data and hex grids (Max)
POI and transit nodes, POI counts per grid cell, and building coverage against amenities per hexagon.
Examples
Straight out of MapToNap
Untouched exports from real sites. Free drawings carry a watermark; Pro and Max drawings are marked.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. The images are MapToNap output.
Guide
How to analyse the amenities around a site
- Count by category. Group facilities into a few categories that matter for the project, such as food and retail, culture and education, health, transit and green, and count each.
- Find the concentrations. A density map shows where facilities cluster; activity centres turn those clusters into places you can name and connect to.
- Look at the streets. Activity follows streets. The streets lined with shops and cafés are where the ground floor of your project wants to face.
- Find the gaps. Catchments show which areas are far from the nearest school, shop or stop: a gap is often the best argument for what the project should add.
- Add time. Opening hours show whether an area is alive in the evening or empty after six, which changes how a public space will be used.
Frequently asked questions
Before you start
Where does the amenity data come from?
From OpenStreetMap. Coverage is very good in most European and many other cities but not complete everywhere; the drawings count what is mapped and never invent places.
Can I see which places are open in the evening?
Places & Times (Max) reads the opening hours tagged in OpenStreetMap for four places around the site. Places without tagged hours are counted as such.
Is it free?
You can try MapToNap free: four 2D drawings (roads, land use, green and water, urban fabric) and one 3D drawing, with a watermark and no sign-up. Without the watermark and with all 68 analyses there are one-time passes: Pro €7.99 or Max €12.99 for 30 days, or a year of Max for €49. Nothing renews automatically.
Do I need to install anything? Does it work on a phone?
No installation and no setup. MapToNap runs in the browser on any computer, tablet or phone, iPhone or Android: open maptonap.com/app, type an address and press Generate. 3D drawings and simulations run smoothest on a computer.
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