Pick a site and MapToNap colours each building around it by what OpenStreetMap records it is used for: housing, shops and offices, schools, hospitals, churches, public buildings and industry. You get a clean functional map for the context chapter of a studio project or competition, without colouring blocks by hand.
Each footprint is coloured on its own, so a school inside a residential block or a row of shops along a high street shows up. A zoning plan drawn by whole blocks cannot show that.
Residential and general; commercial (shops, offices, restaurants, banks, warehouses); civic (education, health, culture, worship, police and fire stations, government); and industrial.
Pick one of several colour schemes, or export an editable SVG and recolour the categories in your own palette. Vector PDF and PNG are there too.
Generated in MapToNap at a 1 km radius. Terracotta is residential and general, blue is civic and yellow is commercial.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. The drawings are MapToNap output, shown as flattened previews.
Search an address or click the map. Land use works up to a 2 km radius; larger areas are skipped for this drawing.
Functional Areas is MapToNap’s land use map. It is included in the free version.
Choose a colour scheme and export SVG, PDF or PNG.
A plan that colours the area around a site by function, such as housing, commerce, public institutions and industry. It shows what the neighbourhood is used for, which informs the programme, the entrances and how a new building should meet the street.
No. It maps how buildings are tagged in OpenStreetMap, which is their current use as recorded by mappers, not the legal zoning or land-use plan of the municipality. For planning questions, check the local plan.
Buildings without a specific use tag fall into the residential and general colour. In most city centres that is right for the majority of the stock, but an untagged office or shop will land there too. Read it as a first survey, not a census.
Yes. Functional Areas is one of the four analyses in the free version, together with Roads & Streets, Urban Fabric and Green & Water. Free exports carry a MapToNap watermark; Pro removes it and unlocks the rest of the 2D site analysis set.
Land use needs the tags of every building in the area, which is a heavy request at district scale. Keeping it to 2 km keeps generation reliable. The figure–ground and street network drawings go up to 3 km.
There is no direct DXF export for site diagrams. Export the SVG and convert it to DXF in Illustrator or Inkscape, or place the vector PDF in your layout software.