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Marcelo de Oliveira Rosa Prates 3ef70792e2 Replace tutorial notebook with marimo + static docs (#144)
* Replace tutorial notebook with marimo + static docs

Jupyter notebooks (.ipynb) are hostile to code review: every cell output
is a base64-embedded blob that churns on every run, and a 27 MB
examples.ipynb is essentially unreviewable. Moving the canonical
tutorial to a git-friendly marimo notebook and a static Markdown
walkthrough keeps code review diffs small, makes the source diffable
in pull requests, and lets the rendered tutorial live alongside the
library on the GitHub Pages site.

- Replace notebooks/examples.ipynb with notebooks/tutorial.py
  (marimo notebook, 35 cells, 15.1 KB).
- Add docs/tutorial.md with the same walkthrough rendered as Markdown
  plus 10 inline PNGs at docs/img/tour-01..tour-10-*.png extracted
  from the original notebook's cell outputs.
- Add Tutorial entry to mkdocs.yml nav; link from docs/index.md and
  README.md. README's inline tutorial block is replaced with a pointer
  table to docs/tutorial.md (README: 1062 -> 112 lines).
- Add marimo>=0.23.0 to requirements.txt; update .gitignore to keep
  the new tutorial.py whitelisted and to ignore marimo caches
  (__marimo__/, *.marimo).
- Fix mkdocs.yml site_url placeholder
  (yourusername.github.io -> marceloprates.github.io) so the GitHub
  Pages site's canonical links and sitemap point at the real domain.
- The 23 unrelated demo notebooks that lived alongside the tutorial
  are kept untracked in notebooks/untracked/ (gitignored as before).

* Restore README tutorial pointer and update Colab link

Follow-up to the tutorial-marimo conversion. The previous rebase onto
the upstream CI commit (ba59f1f) accidentally dropped the new README.md
rewrite because 'git checkout --ours' during a rebase selects the
upstream side, not the commit being applied. This restores the
112-line README.md with the tutorial pointer and updates the Colab
link from notebooks/examples.ipynb to notebooks/tutorial.py.

* Remove obsolete generate-readme CI workflow

The generate-readme.yml workflow and the notebooks_to_readme.sh script
it depended on were designed to run notebooks/examples.ipynb and
regenerate README.md from its cell outputs. Since examples.ipynb is
gone (replaced by the marimo notebook and static docs/tutorial.md),
this pipeline has no purpose and was failing the PR check.

Also removes the 13 orphan temp_readme_*.png files that the CI had
committed to pictures/README/ in ba59f1f — their source notebook
no longer exists.
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prettymaps

A minimal Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap created using the osmnx, matplotlib, shapely and vsketch packages.

Docs PyPI Python License

This work is licensed under a GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (you can make commercial use, distribute and modify this project, but must disclose the source code with the license and copyright notice)

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Tutorial (marimo) · Google Colaboratory Demo

Installation

Install locally:

Install prettymaps with:

pip install prettymaps

Install on Google Colaboratory:

Install prettymaps with:

!pip install -e "git+https://github.com/marceloprates/prettymaps#egg=prettymaps"

Then restart the runtime (Runtime -> Restart Runtime) before importing prettymaps

Run front-end

After prettymaps is installed, you can run the front-end (streamlit) application from the prettymaps repository using:

streamlit run app.py

Tutorial

The full tutorial is at docs/tutorial.md — a markdown walkthrough with rendered images, the [Plot] dataclass fields, the layers/style parameters, presets, multiplot, hillshade, and keypoints.

Heerhugowaard sample

Quick start:

import prettymaps

plot = prettymaps.plot('Stad van de Zon, Heerhugowaard, Netherlands')
Resource Where to find it
Full tutorial (markdown + images) docs/tutorial.md
Interactive marimo notebook (runnable) notebooks/tutorial.py
Open in Google Colab Open in Colab
Streamlit front-end streamlit run app.py

Run the tutorial locally (marimo)

# Install marimo (already in requirements.txt)
pip install marimo

# Open the notebook in your browser
marimo edit notebooks/tutorial.py

Customizing parameters

The most important prettymaps.plot() parameters are:

  • layers — dict of OpenStreetMap layers to fetch.
  • style — dict of matplotlib style parameters per layer.
  • preset — load a JSON preset (e.g. 'default', 'minimal', 'macao', 'tijuca').
  • circle / radius / dilate — boundary shape.

plot is a dataclass with geodataframes (per-layer GeoDataFrames), fig, and ax.

plot = prettymaps.plot(
    'Praça Ferreira do Amaral, Macau',
    circle=True,
    radius=1100,
    layers={
        "water": {"tags": {"natural": ["water", "bay"]}},
        "building": {"tags": {"building": True}},
    },
    style={
        "water": {"fc": "#a1e3ff", "ec": "#2F3737"},
        "building": {"palette": ["#FFC857", "#E9724C", "#C5283D"]},
    },
)

Macau, custom parameters

See docs/tutorial.md for the full set of examples (Macau, Bom Fim, mosaic, Barcelona plotter, Tijuca, multiplot, hillshade, Garopaba keypoints).