How the city around your site is built: the figure-ground of every building, the grain by footprint size, the blocks the buildings form, how densely the ground is covered and which building types repeat. Drawn from real building outlines, in one consistent style.
Every building black, everything else white: the basic drawing of urban morphology, with coverage and building count.
Buildings coloured by footprint area, so fine and coarse grain are visible at a glance.
Buildings merged into blocks with street names placed, for reading the block structure at city scale.
Coverage and floor area per cell of a grid over the site.
A catalogue of footprints sorted by area, showing which building types make up the area.
Building coverage against amenities per hexagon, to see where dense also means lively.
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.
Urban fabric analysis studies the physical structure of a part of the city: the pattern of buildings and open spaces, block sizes, grain and density. It is a core part of urban morphology and of the site analysis for an architecture project.
The figure-ground is the basic drawing, buildings in black and open space in white. Urban fabric analysis builds on it with grain, block structure, density and building types.
They are OpenStreetMap building footprints, which are very complete in most European and many other cities. They are not a cadastral survey; where outlines are missing, the drawing shows the gap rather than inventing buildings.
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.
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.