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Cancún, as a plan

A poster of Cancún, Mexico, drawn from the map itself: every building, street and river around its centre, in ink and colour.

Cancún map poster: the city drawn as a plan
  • 1 buildings and 26.4 km of streets within 600 metres of the centre; the tallest rises 5 m, and buildings cover 0% of the ground.
  • Its streets have an orientation order of 1.00: close to a grid (0 is every direction, 1 a perfect grid).
  • Over four kilometres around, the ground lies between 0 and 20 m above the sea.

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Digital files €9, posters from €35, printed in Europe.
Not made by AI: every line is computed from OpenStreetMap data and open terrain data.

Four ways to draw Cancún

Cancún: Ground Plan
VII · Ground PlanThe 600 metres around the point as a figure-ground plan: buildings solid, streets and squares the paper between them.
Cancún: Street Compass
IX · Street CompassWhich ways the streets within 600 metres run, as a radial composition: the longer the streets in a direction, the larger its sector.
Cancún: Strata
X · StrataThe ground's height over four kilometres around the point, in stepped levels like stacked paper.

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