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Street network map generator

Street network maps and road hierarchy diagrams for any site

MapToNap draws the streets around your site with line weight set by road class: motorways and main roads heaviest, then secondary and local streets, then footpaths, cycleways and paths as fine dashed lines. The movement hierarchy of the area reads at a glance, ready for the access and circulation part of a site analysis.

Live OpenStreetMap data200 m – 3 km radiusSVG · PDF · PNGFree version available
Street network map of the Innere Stadt, Vienna, with the Ringstrasse, generated in MapToNap
What you get

What the generator does

Hierarchy by line weight

Road class comes from OpenStreetMap’s highway tags, so the heavy lines are the roads actually classed as main routes, not a guess from their width.

The walking network is included

Pedestrian streets, footways, cycleways and paths are drawn as dashed lines, so the fine-grained walking network shows against the traffic network.

More movement studies in Pro

For the same site, Pro adds a pedestrian network, transit access, walking routes to everyday destinations and an orientation rose of street bearings.

Examples

Six street networks, one graphic language

Generated in MapToNap at a 1 km radius. Compare the Haussmann boulevards of Paris with the Cerdà grid of Barcelona and the canal rings of Amsterdam.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. The drawings are MapToNap output, shown as flattened previews.

How it works

Three steps, no tracing

Pick the site

Search an address or click the map, then set a radius between 200 m and 3 km.

Turn on Roads & Streets

Roads & Streets is MapToNap’s road hierarchy drawing. It is included in the free version.

Generate and export

Choose a colour scheme, including a dark one, and export SVG, PDF or PNG.

Frequently asked questions

Clear answers before you start

What is a road hierarchy diagram?

A site analysis drawing that ranks the streets around a site by importance, usually with line weight or colour: arterial roads, distributor roads, local streets and pedestrian routes. It explains how people and vehicles arrive, where the noise and traffic come from, and which frontage should hold the entrance.

Where does the road classification come from?

From the highway tag of each street in OpenStreetMap: motorway, trunk, primary, secondary, tertiary, residential, service, pedestrian, footway, cycleway and path. MapToNap maps those classes to line weights and dash patterns.

Is the street network map generator free?

Yes. Roads & Streets is one of the four analyses in the free version, together with Urban Fabric, Functional Areas and Green & Water. Free exports carry a MapToNap watermark; Pro removes it and unlocks the rest of the 2D site analysis set.

Can I show only the pedestrian routes?

Yes, with Pedestrian Network, a separate Pro analysis that isolates walkways, paths and pedestrian spaces.

Can I open it in CAD?

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.

How accurate is it?

It is as complete as OpenStreetMap is in that place. Coverage is excellent in most European city centres and good in many cities worldwide, but patchy in others, including parts of China and many smaller towns. Check against an aerial photo before relying on it. If there is no data at all, the drawing is labelled SCHEMATIC instead of being filled with invented geometry.