Barcelona Road Network Map
Barcelona is celebrated for Ildefons Cerdà's revolutionary 1859 Eixample plan featuring chamfered octagonal street corners designed to maximize sunlight, airflow, and visibility, sliced diagonally by Avinguda Diagonal.
Road Typology & Facts
Local / Native Name
Barcelona
Urban Grid Pattern
Cerdà Octagonal Superblocks
Estimated Road Ways
19,500+
Geographic Bounding Box
41.32, 2.05 to 41.47, 2.23
Primary Arterial Corridors
Avinguda Diagonal, Passeig de Gràcia, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, La Rambla
Data Source
OpenStreetMap (ODbL)
Developer & Export API
Extract vector SVG geometries directly into your web applications or pen plotters:
// Programmatically extract Barcelona roads:
const res = await window.cityRoads.loadCity('Barcelona', {
minLength: 2, // Filter micro segments
includeLabels: true // Minimalist typography
});
console.log(res.svg); // Clean XML <path> markup
Supports iframe postMessage bridge for automated pipelines.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does City Roads render Barcelona roads?
City Roads pulls raw street geometries from OpenStreetMap using the Overpass API or pre-indexed protobuf graphs, rendering them in real time on a high-performance WebGL canvas.
Can I export high-resolution posters of Barcelona?
Yes! The interactive viewer allows selecting custom background paper hues, ink colors, and exporting vector SVG (infinitely scalable) or print-quality PNG raster snapshots.
Is commercial use permitted?
Map geometries are licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL) by OpenStreetMap contributors. You are free to print, plot, and share visualizations with appropriate OSM credit.