StreetShape
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Features

Everything StreetShape draws so you don’t have to.

One line becomes a street. Two lines become an intersection. A spacing becomes a row of trees. Here is the whole inventory.

Capabilities

Two lines, and the hard part is already done.

A street is a stack of lanes with an intent, and a junction is what happens where two of them meet. Both are generated, to scale, on the real map.

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One-lane, one-wayTwo-lane roadTwo-lane + sidewalksTwo-lane + parkingTwo-lane + turn laneTwo-lane + planted medianShared street
Three-lane roadFour-lane roadFour-lane + sidewalksFour-lane + parkingFour lanes, dividedFour-lane boulevardFive-lane, center turn
Six lanes, dividedSix-lane boulevardEight lanes, dividedOne-way, two lanesOne-way, three lanesBus lane streetTram boulevard

Pick what the street is. Draw one line.

A road is not a set of rectangles you keep in alignment by hand. Choose a preset, click from one end of the block to the other, and the whole cross-section is generated to scale on the map.

Presets, not primitives: Twenty-one of them, on five shelves — small streets, medium roads, large roads, one-way and transit. From a one-lane alley to an eight-lane divided road, and a custom one when none of them is it.

Then adjust anything: Lane count and width, direction, turn lanes, medians, surface, and each kerbside independently. Change the lane count and everything outboard of it moves: the parking bay, the bike lane, the kerb, the trees.

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PlainYieldStopSignalisedRaisedRoundabout

Cross two roads and the junction builds itself.

StreetShape sees the crossing, makes the intersection an object of its own, and draws its corner radii, stop lines and crossings. A protected bike lane keeps its protection through the junction, because that is what makes it protected.

Six ways to control it: Plain, yield, stop, signalised, raised and roundabout. The geometry does not move when you change between them — the type is a property of the junction rather than a different drawing.

Ends snap into a network: Drag two road ends near each other and they become one node. Move it and both roads follow. Crossings snap to roads, bus stops to kerbs, tree rows to footways.

Libraries

Fifty objects, in ten drawers.

Not clip art. A bus stop belongs to a kerb, a tree row belongs to a footway, and both of them move when the street does.

Trees, shrubs and planters. A tree row distributes itself. Set the spacing to eight meters and it holds when you make the street longer.

Open the palette
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Planting4 objects
  • Tree
  • Shrub
  • Planter
  • Flower bed
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placeholder — the street as it is
TodayProposed
Export

The picture is the point.

Export the work area or the current view. Export the same view twice — with your changes and without them — and that pairing is what makes an argument out of a drawing.

  • PNG or JPEG
  • The work area, or exactly what you are looking at
  • Up to 1920 pixels wide on Free, 3840 on Hobby, 7680 on Pro
  • The same view twice — with your changes and without them
  • The project title on the image, if you want it there
  • The StreetShape mark, optional above Free

What comes out is high enough resolution for a printed A2 flyer and small enough to post.

Your plans

Your work stays yours.

Every plan saves as you go, keeps its history, and opens again whatever happens to your subscription.

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10/ 50 / 200

Versions kept, by plan. Every save is a version you can read and roll back to. Free keeps ten, Hobby fifty, Pro two hundred — and a share of each is pinnable, so the one that matters is never the one the prune takes.

Nothing is deleted

If you stop paying, every plan you made stays, opens and exports. You just cannot make new ones past the free limit.

Two ideas, one street

Duplicate a plan and try the other version of it without losing the first. Both keep their own history.

What StreetShape is not.

It is a design and communication tool, not engineering software. It does not check your design against a national standard, does not model traffic capacity, does not certify anything, and will not tell you whether something can be built. It is for showing people what you mean, clearly enough that they can argue with the idea instead of with the drawing.

If you need a scheme engineered, this is where you start, not where you finish.

Draw one and see.

The free plan gets you three saved streets, the whole map and exports you can post.

Start drawingSee the plans