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About Monotopo

Maps prepared for print.

Monotopo turns OpenStreetMap geometry into posters with controllable road detail, themes, text, pins, routes, and print sizes.

Austin map poster above a working table in a warm industrial design studio

Rendering workflow

From map data to poster file.

  1. 01

    Load the geography

    OpenStreetMap supplies roads, waterways, parks, and boundaries for the selected area.

  2. 02

    Set the hierarchy

    The renderer filters the geometry and applies road weights, colors, labels, and crop settings.

  3. 03

    Render the poster

    The studio combines the map, theme, text, pins, and routes into a PNG for download or print.

How it is built

A small stack around geographic data.

Data source
OpenStreetMap for roads, waterways, parks, and boundaries.
Map processing
Python and OSMnx for fetching and shaping geographic data.
Rendering
Monotopo theme and composition controls applied to the selected map.
Website
Astro for the public site, product pages, and journal.

Try the studio

Start with a city, address, or coordinates.

Open the studio