Is there a reason you’ve defaulted to PNG that I’m missing?

https://prettymapp.streamlit.app/

Salem, OR and Salem, MA

Portland, OR and Portland, ME

Springfield, IL and Springfield, MO

Dallas, TX and Dallas, GA

https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads

Edit: it outputs SVGs and you can try it online. Anvaka (author) has other really cool dataviz projects.

Anyhow, nice work. Thanks!

*`Dockerfile`*

``` FROM python:3.12.10-slim-bookworm

RUN apt-get update -q -y && apt-get install -q -y \ build-essential \ git \ python3-dev \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

RUN groupadd --gid 10000 python \ && useradd --uid 10000 --gid python --shell /bin/bash --create-home python

WORKDIR /home/python/app

RUN git clone https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter.git

RUN chown -R python:python ./maptoposter

# 5. Switch to non-root user USER python

RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip && \ cd ./maptoposter && \ pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

CMD ["sleep", "infinity"]

```

*`main.sh`*

``` #!/usr/bin/env bash

# https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter # Read the documentation to change themes and settings for each city

# Get the directory where THIS script is located SCRIPT_DIR=$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" &> /dev/null && pwd) cd "$SCRIPT_DIR" || exit 1

# TODO: kolkata is done already, change to some other city both here and on that notepad.pw link in Chrome readonly CITY="kolkata" readonly COUNTRY="india"

readonly CONTAINER_NAME="map_to_poster"

if ! docker buildx build \ --file "Dockerfile" \ --progress none \ --tag "${CONTAINER_NAME}" \ --quiet .; then printf "Error: %s" "while attempting to build the docker container:${CONTAINER_NAME}" exit 1 fi

if ! docker container run \ --detach \ --interactive \ --name "${CONTAINER_NAME}" \ --tty \ "${CONTAINER_NAME}"; then printf "Error: %s" "while attempting to run the docker container:${CONTAINER_NAME}" exit 1 fi

container_id=$(docker ps -aqf "name=${CONTAINER_NAME}")

if [ -z "$container_id" ]; then echo "Container not found!" else echo "The ID for ${CONTAINER_NAME} is: $container_id" fi

docker exec -i "${CONTAINER_NAME}" /bin/bash << EOF cd /home/python/app/maptoposter python create_map_poster.py --city "${CITY}" --country "${COUNTRY}" EOF

mkdir -p "${HOME}/map_to_poster"

if ! docker cp "${container_id}":/home/python/app/maptoposter/posters "${HOME}/map_to_poster"; then printf "Error: %s" "while attempting to copy map files from container:${CONTAINER_NAME}" fi

if ! docker stop "${CONTAINER_NAME}"; then printf "Error: %s" "stopping container:${CONTAINER_NAME}" fi

if ! docker rm "${CONTAINER_NAME}"; then printf "Error: %s" "removing container:${CONTAINER_NAME}" fi

```

Using Claude Code and OP's library, I've put it on the internets. Web hosting is cheap(free) and generation takes some time