CAD Mapper

CAD and 3D Maps of cities around the world

While Google Maps and Google Earth are really great for viewing maps, downloading and using maps in your project can be really difficult. Here are some sites that leverage the OpenStreetMap data and help you download CAD, Vector and 3D files of any city in the world.

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CAD Mapper

Instant CAD models of any location on Earth (free for areas up to 1 km2 of 200 whole city files.)

Elk

A plugin for Grasshopper that allows you to generate map and topographical surfaces using open source data from OpenStreetMap.org and USGS. Download ELK plugin for Grasshopper here. Also, here is a tutorial on how to generate 2D/3D maps using Elk.

Maperitive

Generate a vector map based on OpenStreetMap data

CAD to Earth

Allows you to download any terrain surface and 3D models directly from Google Earth into Rhino.

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