How to 3D print a map of your own street

With Map to STL you choose a place, and the maker builds a 3D map from OpenStreetMap: buildings, streets, water and parks, ready to print in one colour or several.

Step by step

1. Search for your street or town and drag the map until the right spot is inside the outline.
2. Choose how much of it you want, from 150 metres to 4 km across. A small area shows single houses; a large one shows the shape of the whole town.
3. Choose the shape (square, wide, round, hexagon or heart) and the width of the print.
4. Choose what is on the map: buildings, main roads, streets, footpaths and cycle paths, railways, water, and parks and woods.
5. Put a pin on your home, and click a building or a street to give it its own colour.
6. Add a name, with the coordinates under it if you like.
7. Choose how you print the colours, and download the 3MF or STL.

Printing it in colour

• Multi-colour printer (AMS, MMU or a toolchanger): every part gets its own filament.
• Filament swaps on any printer: every colour starts at its own height, and you change filament at the heights the maker lists. All heights are whole 0.2 mm layers, so the colours change exactly where they should.
• One colour: just the shapes, in one filament.

Print settings

• Flat on the bed, with 0.2 mm layers (or 0.1 mm).
• A 0.4 mm nozzle or smaller, 2 walls and 15% infill.
• No supports: the pin is shaped to print without them.

Tips

• Roads are never thinner than 0.8 mm (paths 0.6 mm), so a 0.4 mm nozzle can print them. In a very large area, the smallest streets can still run together: leave out footpaths, or choose a smaller area.
• Some places have less detail in OpenStreetMap than others, and the sea along a coast isn't shown.
• Copy the link to your map to make the same map again later.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.