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Wall maps

Frame a city, a neighbourhood or a lake, give it a style, and make it the way you like: a multi-colour plaque to 3D print, a board to laser cut from wood or acrylic, or a poster to print on paper. All three come from the same design.

Place

Drag and zoom the map. What you see here is what goes on the wall.

Or start from an example

Shape and sheet

Style

Layers and colours

Line weight

Text

Title Subtitle Show the coordinates

Position Typeface

Title size

3D print a plaque

Width Base thickness Height of each colour step

Outline Water

Roads Raised rim around the edge Raised title and text

Laser cut and engrave

Type Width

Outline Roads

Print a poster

Paper size Small terraprinter.com credit in the corner

PNG for a print shop or photo lab, SVG to keep editing in a vector app, PDF to print at home.

One design, three ways to hang it

A 3D-printed plaque

Every layer of the design becomes a raised step: water sunk into the base, then land, parks, streets, main roads, buildings and the lettering on top. On a multi-colour printer, load the 3MF and give each named part its filament. On a single-colour printer, swap filament at the heights listed after you build it.

A laser-cut board

One engraved board, or two layered boards with the water cut out of the top one so the base shows through. The SVG is drawn at real size in millimetres and opens in LightBurn, xTool Creative Space, the Glowforge app or Inkscape. Red cuts, blue scores, and each kind of map feature engraves on its own colour.

A poster

Drawn from OpenStreetMap data, not a screenshot, so it stays sharp at any size. The PNG is 300 dpi for a print shop or photo lab; the SVG and PDF are vectors with the lettering turned into outlines.

Materials and framing

3 mm birch ply or MDF suits most laser beds; a dark stain before engraving makes the streets stand out. Plaques print well in PLA at 0.2 mm layers. Want the full terrain instead of a flat city map? Open the TerraPrinter app.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Elevation © Mapzen / AWS Terrain Tiles. Free to sell what you make: see the free commercial license. More ideas on 3D map gifts.