SMRender - Make Maps From Where You Live
14 May 2025
SMRender is a great open source (GPL v3) tool to render Open Street
Maps data to an image file. It was originally meant for rendering high
quality sea maps. I have a new project where I want to take a look at some map
data where I live and show it off in an interesting and digestible way. I live
in Philadelphia now so let’s use that as our example here.