MapToNap
Pont au Change, Paris, 500 m radius. 1,892 buildings, every outline real, from OpenStreetMap, not imagined by a model.
One pin, one style, one scale. The weekend you would have spent tracing comes back second by second. The machine starts to heat up.
So they let themselves out.
Movement, land use, climate, terrain and presentation boards. Titles, legends, scale bars and north arrows included.
1,892 real buildings, the Seine and the streets: a 3D site model from the same pin.
68 drawings and an A3 board before midnight. Then close the laptop.
All from one pin and one click: movement, uses, climate, terrain and the presentation boards. Red numbers are in Max; the rest come with Pro, and four are free.
01Urban Context Axonometric
02Wind · 3D Flow
03Active & Lost Spaces
04Transit Layers
05Axonometric Callouts
06Site Inset Board
07Zoning Plan
08Visual Analysis
09Line Axonometric
10Central & Accessible
11Opportunities & Constraints
12Stay Places & Connections
13Aural Topography
14Wind Simulation
15Fabric Generalisation
16Urban Fabric
17Roads & Streets
18Functional Areas
19Green & Water
20Transit Access
21Walk Accessibility
22Noise Analysis
23Sun Path & Wind
24Wind Flow
25Node Analysis
26City Context
27Location
28Orientation
29Orientation Rose
30Street Vitality
31Access Analysis
32Building Density
33Pedestrian Network
34POI Density Heat
35POI Type Map
36Combined Overlay
37Service Territories
38Annotated Map
39Building Massing
40Isometric Massing
41Building Typology
42Context Mapping Board
43Urban Data · Nodes
44Urban Data · Grid
45Street Connection Field
46Sound Sources
47Topography
48Slope & Drainage
49Terrain Wireframe
50Temperature Year
51Precipitation Year
52Annual Climate
53Sun & Wind Axonometric
54Solar Radiation
55Functional Areas · B
56Building Uses
57Zoning Plan · B
58Urban Fabric · B
59Amenities & Street Character
60Activity Centres
61Bivariate Hex Grid
62Line Axonometric · B
63Urban Heat · Estimate
64Street Corridors
65Centres & Connections
66Four Seasons · 2 PM
67Places & TimesThe same pin builds a 3D context model: measured heights where the national survey publishes them, mapped floors everywhere else, and the buildings OpenStreetMap is missing filled in. Read it as an urban context axonometric, a wind study, active and lost spaces or transit layers, then take it into Rhino.
All four are in the 3D tab of the analysis list: select the area, tick them, generate. The urban context axonometric is free to try (watermarked).
Tick the drawings, pick a format. MapToNap sets them on the sheet with one grid, one type scale and one legend style.
Eight studies of the real site, built on open map data and computed in your browser. Not pictures of a site: the site itself, measured hour by hour, step by step, sightline by sightline. Every study ends with its findings: charts, conclusions and an A3 results sheet.
Pick the site, tick what you need, press Generate once. Every analysis comes out in one style, at one scale, ready to export. The part of a studio project that used to eat a weekend is now a button.
After the analysis, mark the plot, pick what you are designing and one look for the whole set. One click gives five linked drawings, each built on the one before and on the site’s own data, then the boards, and every drawing can be edited right on the page. The Parametric Lab solves the zoning on your real plot. Want to shape every detail yourself? The four tools in the Toolbox are still there.
No prompts, no image models, no guessing. MapToNap reads real survey and climate data and draws it as editable geometry.
MapToNap exists because we care about the people who make architecture. Studying and practising it means all-nighters before reviews, weekends spent tracing base maps and long hours treated as proof of commitment. We want more people, inside the profession and outside it, to see how hard architects and architecture students work, and to take their rest and health seriously instead of racing each other to exhaustion. A tool cannot change that culture alone, but every hour it gives back belongs to your design, your friends or your sleep.
Every drawing here is an untouched export from MapToNap: Barcelona, Paris and Milan, straight out of the app. Titles, legends, scale bars and north arrows included. New: the Visual Analysis now finds real street photos of the site by itself.
Eleven tools on one site. Start with the one-click analysis, finish on the board. Point at a tool to see what it does.
Drop a pin, tick what you need, press Generate once. Figure-ground, streets, land use, green and water, transit, walking distance, noise, sun and wind, climate, terrain and the presentation boards, all from real map data and in one style.
The same pin builds the context in 3D: buildings with real or estimated heights, terrain, streets, water, green and trees. Turn it in the browser, then export.
Watch your site through a day of real sun and shadow, walk its streets minute by minute, see what is visible from any point, test a design against its neighbours, check the 15-minute city, read the footfall hour by hour and see how each street ties into the network (space syntax).
Draw functional zones, paths and soft organic islands right over the site to show where the programme goes. Every shape stays editable.
Where people enter, how they move, what is protected, what connects and where the focus is: arrows, axes and nodes over the site that turn decisions into a clear story.
Open Site strategy →Pedestrian, vehicle, service and landscape routes with hierarchy and direction, without redrawing arrows and line styles every time.
Turn a list of spaces into bubbles, link the ones that belong together and drag them until the plan logic is clear, before you draw a single wall.
Open Bubble diagrams →Fields, gradients and layered acrylic-style shapes for abstract concept studies: the image that opens a concept board.
Build levels, walls, floors and objects, then turn the same project into axonometric views. The one tool here that exports DXF for CAD.
Thirty days cover a studio deadline. Nothing renews by itself, and we remind you three days before a pass ends.
They save 20% on any pass; you get 7 more days for each friend who buys.
No. Every drawing is built from maps, open data and editable geometry, so you can change the composition, colours and relationships yourself. The 3D model at the top of this page is made the same way.
The pass ends by itself. Nothing is charged again, and we email you three days before. Your projects stay in your browser and the four free analyses keep working. Buy another pass, or a full year of Max, whenever you need it.
No. Every purchase made before 30-day passes stays permanent, exactly as you bought it.
Yes. Every paid plan includes commercial use for your own projects, clients and publications. Keep the OpenStreetMap attribution on map-based drawings.
Write to [email protected] with the number of seats and your billing details. We reply with a quote and an invoice.
Site Analysis exports PNG, editable SVG and vector PDF, plus an A3 report. Floorplan also exports DXF. 3D Site exports Rhino 3DM, OBJ and GLB.
In this browser. Export a project backup before clearing browser data or moving to another device; your purchase restores anywhere with your code.
No. MapToNap runs in any modern browser. A laptop gives you the most room for drawing and editing.
Yes. The Visual Analysis board (Max) draws numbered view cones on the plan and fills each with a real street-level photo from Mapillary, taken where the site can really be seen past the buildings in front, with the site picked out in red. The photos are CC BY-SA 4.0 and every photographer is credited on the board.
Eight studies of the site that go beyond diagrams: 24 hours of real sun and shadow, walking isochrones, isovists and visibility graph analysis (VGA), the impact of a proposed design on sun, views and walking, the 15-minute city, an hour-by-hour footfall model, space syntax (how well each street is connected) and WHAT IF?, a 3D model of the real site where you change a building, close a street or add a block and measure what changes. It runs in your browser on real map data, is part of Max and is free to try on the Paris sample.
MapToNap is made by a team of architects based in Berlin, trained at Politecnico di Milano (6th in the world for Architecture in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026) and Sapienza University of Rome, with eight years of experience in architecture and time at a Bauhaus summer programme. The diagrams follow the conventions architects use on real review and competition boards, because the people who draw them have made those boards themselves.
68 drawings and one A3 board before midnight. Then close the laptop.