OpenStreetMap to DXF for AutoCAD

Get a ready-to-use AutoCAD drawing of any place on Earth — buildings with real heights, roads, terrain and contours — without converting OSM files by hand.

Open urban:EXPORT — free No sign-up · 3 areas a day up to 5 km² free · up to 100 km²

How to get it

Open urban:EXPORT and find the place: search by city, address or coordinates, or drag the map.
Choose the area shape — square, circle or a free rectangle — and its size (up to 100 km²).
Pick the layers: buildings, roads, bridges, terrain, contours, water and green areas, trees.
Press Create model. In about a minute you get a 3D preview, a drawing and the satellite image.
Click AutoCAD (.dxf). The file opens in any AutoCAD version: it is DXF R12, 1 unit = 1 metre, the origin is the centre of the area, Y points north.

What you get

Buildings as polyface meshes on layers by type: BUILDINGS_RESIDENTIAL, BUILDINGS_COMMERCIAL, BUILDINGS_PUBLIC, BUILDINGS_INDUSTRIAL and others.
Terrain as a polyface mesh (TERRAIN) and contour lines as 3D polylines (CONTOURS) with an automatic interval.
Roads as 3D polylines on ROADS_MAJOR, ROADS_MINOR and PATHS; optionally real road widths as surfaces with rounded kerbs (ROADS_AREA, PATHS_AREA).
Bridges and flyovers at their own levels (BRIDGES), railways, water and green areas.
Trees as inserts of one TREE block — redefine the block to change every tree at once.

Tips

Need only a 2D site plan? Freeze TERRAIN and set a top view; the roads and building outlines stay on their layers.
For a section through the site use the Section tool on the map: it exports a DXF profile with terrain and building heights.
Large areas (over 20 km²) make big files; switch off trees or contours if you do not need them.

Questions

Is the DXF in real coordinates?

It is in metres in a local system centred on the area (0,0 is the centre, Y is north). The centre latitude and longitude are written in the file name, so you can place it in a georeferenced drawing.

Which AutoCAD versions open it?

All of them: the file is DXF R12, which every AutoCAD version, BricsCAD, ZWCAD, DraftSight and most CAD programs read.

Where does the data come from?

Buildings and roads from OpenStreetMap (gaps filled from Overture Maps), terrain from national lidar models where available and Copernicus DEM elsewhere.