Zurich Road Network Map
Where Lake Zurich empties into the Limmat River, Zurich connects financial banking quarters along Bahnhofstrasse with hill-climbing residential funicular and tram routes.
Road Typology & Facts
Local / Native Name
Zürich
Urban Grid Pattern
River Valley Axial & Lakeside Avenues
Estimated Road Ways
10,500+
Geographic Bounding Box
47.32, 8.45 to 47.45, 8.62
Primary Arterial Corridors
Bahnhofstrasse, Limmatquai, Langstrasse, Bellerivestrasse, A1 Autobahn
Data Source
OpenStreetMap (ODbL)
Developer & Export API
Extract vector SVG geometries directly into your web applications or pen plotters:
// Programmatically extract Zurich roads:
const res = await window.cityRoads.loadCity('Zurich', {
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 Zurich 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 Zurich?
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.