Create a poster without label

[IordanisKokk]

Hello everyone.

This project looks very interesting. I just wanted to ask, is there a way to create a poster of a city/area, but without the label? If not, is it planned?

Thanks!

[Charlie284]

There is still no supported command-line option for a label-free poster on the current main branch.

The renderer unconditionally draws four elements: the city, country, coordinates, and divider line (source). The available display-name arguments only replace the city/country text; they do not disable the whole block (CLI options).

There was an earlier request for exactly this, issue #140. The maintainer closed it saying there were no plans for a new no-text parameter and suggested empty display strings. In the current source, however, a truly empty value falls back to the original city/country because the selection uses display_city or ... and display_country or ... (source). A single space can visually hide those two names, but the coordinates and divider still remain, so it does not fully solve your request.

For a local copy today, the smallest reliable workaround is to remove or comment out the bottom-text block at lines 683–734, then run the normal command:

uv run ./create_map_poster.py --city "Paris" --country "France"

If you also do not want the empty bottom fade, remove only the bottom create_gradient_fade(...) call at lines 614–616. I would leave the separate © OpenStreetMap contributors attribution intact; it is rendered independently at lines 736–753.

There are currently three open, unmerged proposals for a --no-text flag: #151, #213, and #229. Until one is merged, a local source edit is the only complete route in the repository itself.