Map To Poster
Map poster generator in Tools & making
Turns city maps into good-looking posters that save design time. Common caveat: projection errors in some sample images.
Turns city maps into good-looking posters that save design time. Common caveat: projection errors in some sample images.
15 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 80%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Clear documentation and README
“The 'Modify when' column in the key functions table made me happier than it should have.”
Comment from 17 Jan 2026 in “Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city” “The README should be the gold standard for OSS.”
Comment from 17 Jan 2026 in “Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city” Works for many users
“gives the desired result (at least for the cases I've tried)”
Comment from 17 Jan 2026 in “Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city” “It certainly is working as many users have generated maps.”
Comment from 17 Jan 2026 in “Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city”
What people said
13 of the 16 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Kinda sad that maptoposter uses png.”
“I get an ambiguous error when submitting a request.”
“gives the desired result (at least for the cases I've tried)”
“It will save me some design time.”
“Very cool, thanks for sharing!!”
“there seems to be a problem with the projection in some of the sample images”
“The 'Modify when' column in the key functions table made me happier than it should have.”
“Pretty cool! It would be great if there was a way to set coordinates manually”
“The README should be the gold standard for OSS.”
“the map is squeezed horizontally”
“Looks beautiful. The gold+dark color does justice.”
“It certainly is working as many users have generated maps.”
“the download data step is stuck at 0% unfortunately”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.