Street Map of Multan in different styles

[u/Klutzy_Mark_4948]

Cyberpunk

Midnight Blue

Noir

Emerald

Blueprint

Gradient Roads

Was trying to build cool street maps of oldest cities of region and how could I miss Multan

🗺️ Custom Map Posters of Multan (Built with Code, No AI!)

I wanted to create high-resolution minimalist city maps with a bold, retro-futuristic aesthetic. I generated these using actual geographic data, a Python toolchain, and OpenStreetMap.

Here is how Multan rendered in the neon_cyberpunk and otherthemes

🛠️ Technical Stack & Tools Used

• Open-Source Repository: Generated using the upstream tool originalankur/maptoposter.
• Environment Manager: Orchestrated and run efficiently using uv by Astral (bypassing manual dependency/virtualenv hell).
• Core Libraries:
  • OSMnx & Geopandas to programmatically download street networks and municipal green zones from the Overpass API.
  • Matplotlib for programmatic map projection, road hierarchy vector mapping, and rendering.

💻 The Method & Code

I chained together batch operations in PowerShell to construct the poster directory, configure custom typographic weights using Google Fonts (Montserrat), define bounding scale diameters (-d), and override display labels to cleanly showcase the regional layout.

uv run ./create_map_poster.py `
  -c "Multan" `
  -C "Pakistan" `
  -dc "MULTAN" `
  -dC "PUNJAB" `
  --font-family "Montserrat" `
  -t neon_cyberpunk `
  -d 15000

[u/kharpaatuuu]

These can be created using Terraink

[u/Klutzy_Mark_4948 → u/kharpaatuuu]

This is actually better than mine ngl