Use cases

Eight streets, and what you could do about them.

The tool is the same in every one of these. What changes is who is holding it, and who they need to convince.

Every situation below is a scenario, not a customer. Nobody is named, nothing is counted, and where something is not built yet the page says so.
placeholder — somebody drawing a street they know, on a laptop

The same tool, pointed at eight different arguments.

A parent, a campaigner, a transport officer, a lecturer and a writer are all trying to do one thing: show somebody a street that does not exist yet, on a street that does. The difference between them is not the drawing. It is who has to say yes afterwards, and what that person needs to see before they will.

Find the situation below that looks like yours, and start from there.

Eight

Situations on this page, each written for somebody with a different person to convince.

One

One editor behind all of them. No case here needs a different product or a different tier.

Zero

Drawings you have to learn CAD to make. You pick a preset and click along the street.

Any

Any address, anywhere. The real map loads underneath whatever you are drawing on.

Gallery

Whichever of these is yours, it comes out looking like this.

One editor, eight reasons to open it. Every plan starts as a search box and one line, and leaves as an image you can post, print or submit.

proposedexport · Lisbon
todayexport · Glasgow
proposedexport · Valencia
proposedexport · Leipzig
todayexport · Dublin
proposedexport · Lyon
proposedexport · Rotterdam
todayexport · Bologna
proposedexport · Bristol
proposedexport · Krakow
proposedexport · Ghent
todayexport · Tirana

placeholder — drop real StreetShape exports into both rows

Use cases

Find the one that looks like your situation.

Eight scenarios, each written for a different person with a different thing to prove. Pick the nearest one.

placeholder — scene: the corner radii tighten, four crossings arrive

01 — Residents

The junction outside the school.

Children cross it twice a day, on a corner built wide enough for a lorry to take at speed. Every parent on the street knows it, and none of them has a picture of it being any different.

You could search the address, draw the four arms with the lane counts that are actually there, then tighten the corner radii and put a raised crossing on each side. You could pull the parking back from the corner so a driver can see a child standing at it. Then export the street as it is and the street as you drew it, as one image.

What you could do

  • Search the address
  • Draw the four arms
  • Tighten the corner radii
  • Add raised crossings
  • Set the parking back
  • Export before and after

A corner everybody already argues about becomes a corner everybody can look at two versions of.

None of these quite you?

The tool does not care what you are here for. Open a street you know and change one thing about it.