Laser Map Generator

I was making multi-layer laser cut maps as a side project at home. Examples. I had a few differnet friends ask for certain cities that they liked and it was very time intensive to manually make the SVGs for each individual city. I wanted to automate the process of creating these maps so I could make them for friends and family more easily. I decided to create a tool that would take in a city name and generate a multi-layer SVG file that could be used to laser cut a map of that city. I used GoogleMaps API data to generate the maps and created a Python script to utilized Inkscape features to generate the SVG files.

Project Goals

Create a frontend where a user can input a city name and then finalize the map location using an interactive Google map.
Utilize Google Maps API to generate static map images of the desired location's land and street views.
Utilize python to interface with Inkscape to generate the different layers SVG files for laser cutting.
Serve those files to the user for download.

Tech Stack

Frontend: React with Chakra UI
Backend: FastAPI
Image Processing: Inkscape

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Laser Map Generator

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