Provider comparison # City Maps as CAD Files (DWG/DXF): 6 Providers Compared Six providers supply city maps as CAD files (DWG/DXF): the curated shops schwarzplan.eu (335 cities, usually €10 per plan), mapacad.com (437 cities, DWG, €1–€15) and figuregrounds.com (over 200 cities, €9.50), plus the generators CADMAPPER, CAD Atlas and swzpln.de with a free entry tier. schwarzplan.eu also sells country packages: Germany costs 39,00 € for 134 plans, which is 0,29 € per plan. Last checked: August 2026 · prices taken from the providers' own sites [ Find your city in the shop → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/) [ Try the free plans ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/free-figure-ground-plans/) DWG · DXF · vector PDF · SVG · prices, layers, licence Comparison ## Every provider at a glance Six providers that sell or generate city maps as CAD files – by type, format, price, layer structure, data source and licence. Shops selling personalised city-map posters are a separate category (print products, not CAD files) and are therefore not in the table. | Provider | Type | Formats | Coverage | Price | Volume discount / packages | Layers / content | Data source | Commercial use | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | schwarzplan.eu | Curated shop, instant download | Vector PDF, DWG, DXF, SVG, PNG | 335 cities and regions worldwide | Usually €10 per single plan; 40 plans free | Volume discount: €5 off from 3 plans, €10 off from 4 plans (the deduction stays at €10 from the fifth plan on). Country packages from €29 (Germany: 39,00 € for 134 plans = 0,29 € per plan), pay once — permanent access, no subscription. Access to all plans: €99 for one year. | Building polygons, streets and water on separate layers, fixed scale, print-ready | OpenStreetMap, editorially cleaned; cadastral map additionally from official land registry data | Commercial licence included in the purchase (projects, competitions, presentations), no share-alike obligation on your own drawing. For print and web publication there is the extended licence: +20,00 € per plan, +50,00 € per country bundle, +100,00 € for the access pass. Passing the files on as a dataset is excluded because the data originates under the ODbL. | | mapacad.com | Curated shop | DWG | 437 cities worldwide | €1 to €15 per city (Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, Athens: €15); 3D models €20 | Student discount on request via the university, amount not stated; no country or volume packages listed | No topography and no contour lines; no fixed scale (provider's own statement) | OpenStreetMap (provider's own statement) | „sold under the Openstreetmap.org license"; reselling the files is prohibited | | figuregrounds.com | Curated shop | DWG and scalable PDF (in a ZIP) | Over 200 cities worldwide | €9.50 per plan | n/a | Buildings, streets, railway, land use and water as switchable CAD layers | OpenStreetMap (provider's own statement) | „commercial or private projects" according to the provider | | CADMAPPER | Generator, freely chosen extract | DXF, SKP, 3DM, 3DS | Worldwide; plus over 200 free street-network files for entire metropolitan areas | Up to 1 km² free (with an account), up to 100 km² paid – amount n/a; discount with an academic email address | Discount when registering with an academic email address, amount not stated; no volume packages listed | Buildings (heights in many places), topography, streets as polylines, water | OpenStreetMap, NASA, USGS | ODbL: commercial use permitted with attribution and share-alike | | CAD Atlas | Generator, 2D and 3D | DWG, DXF, SKP, 3DM, 3DS, OBJ, MTL | Worldwide; figure-ground mode up to roughly 420,000 km² | First ~1 km² free without signing up, free for students; beyond that per km² – amount n/a | Free download credits each semester for verified students; no volume packages listed | Building heights, true street widths, trees as blocks, editable vector shadows, contour lines | OpenStreetMap, Overture Maps, government cadastral records, elevation models from NASA and ESA data | ODbL 1.0 with share-alike; an attribution notice is included with every delivery | | swzpln.de | Free generator, open source | 2D: SVG, PDF, DXF · 3D: IFC, OBJ, 3D DXF | Worldwide | Free | Not applicable – the service is entirely free | Buildings, green spaces, forest, water, farmland, streets, railway, contour lines | OpenStreetMap, generated client-side in the browser | Software AGPL-3.0; map data OpenStreetMap under ODbL – attribution required | Every figure about a third-party provider was read from that provider's own site on 24. August 2026: prices, formats, coverage, data source and licence. Where a provider states no amount or no licence, the cell reads „n/a" – estimated values are not used here. Prices can change at any time; the provider's own site is always authoritative. - [ Source: mapacad.com ](https://www.mapacad.com/faqs/) - [ Source: figuregrounds.com ](https://www.figuregrounds.com/) - [ Source: CADMAPPER ](https://cadmapper.com/terms) - [ Source: CAD Atlas ](https://cad-atlas.com/contactlicense/) - [ Source: swzpln.de ](https://github.com/timethy96/swzpln.de) Special case: official data All six providers above work predominantly with OpenStreetMap. If you need official parcel boundaries from the land registry, this category offers them only from us: [cadastral map with parcel boundaries](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/official-base-geodata-licences-germany/) – for Germany, as DXF and PDF. It is the only route in this overview that does not go through OpenStreetMap. Volume and packages ## Several plans: volume discount and country packages Every provider in the table sells individual cities. If you need several plans – for an analysis, a course or an office archive – you pay for each one separately there. With us a volume discount kicks in from the third plan, and whole countries are available as fixed-price packages. - From 3 plans in the basket −€5 - From 4 plans in the basket −€10 The volume discount is a fixed amount, not a percentage: at €10 per plan, three plans cost €25 instead of €30 (−16.7%) and four plans €30 instead of €40 (−25%). There is no further tier – from the fifth plan onwards the deduction stays at €10, so the percentage advantage falls again. From that quantity on, a country package is usually the better deal. Country packages · pay once, permanent access | Package | Price | Included plans | Per plan | |---|---|---|---| | [Germany](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/country-bundle-deutschland-en/) | 39,00 € | 134 | 0,29 € | | [Austria](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/country-bundle-oesterreich-en/) | 29,00 € | 18 | 1,61 € | | [France](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/country-bundle-frankreich-en/) | 29,00 € | 16 | 1,81 € | | [Italy](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/country-bundle-italien-en/) | 29,00 € | 14 | 2,07 € | | [Czech Republic](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/country-bundle-tschechien-en/) | 29,00 € | 10 | 2,90 € | | [USA](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/country-bundle-usa-en/) | 29,00 € | 10 | 2,90 € | | [Poland](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/country-bundle-polen-en/) | 29,00 € | 8 | 3,63 € | | [Spain](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/country-bundle-spanien-en/) | 29,00 € | 5 | 5,80 € | | [Sweden](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/country-bundle-schweden-en/) | 29,00 € | 3 | 9,67 € | Prices and plan counts are read live from the catalogue and grow with it. A package is paid for once and stays accessible permanently – the files it contains have neither an expiry date nor a download limit, and it is not a subscription. That is different from access to every plan for €99 (teams €199), which runs for one year. [ See all country packages → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/) Profiles ## The providers in detail ### schwarzplan.eu Curated shop, instant download Usually €10 per single plan; 40 plans free [ To the catalogue → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/) Finished, already cleaned figure-ground and site plans: closed building polygons, separate layers, a fixed scale, downloadable straight away as PDF, DWG or DXF. The commercial licence comes with the purchase, so no ODbL share-alike obligation attaches to your own drawing. The honest limitation: this is a curated catalogue, not a generator – if you need an exact custom extract at an arbitrary location, CADMAPPER, CAD Atlas or swzpln.de will serve you better. We are the only provider in this overview that additionally supplies German cadastral maps built from official land registry data rather than OpenStreetMap. ### mapacad.com Curated shop €1 to €15 per city (Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, Athens: €15); 3D models €20 [ mapacad.com ↗ ](https://www.mapacad.com/) The broadest catalogue in this overview: 437 cities as DWG, priced from €1 to €15 by city size. For smaller cities mapacad is therefore cheaper than we are; for Berlin, London, Paris, Rome or Athens a plan costs €15 there against €10 with us. The provider states itself that the plans contain no topography and, because different coordinate systems are used, are not delivered at a fixed scale – you set scale and units in CAD yourself. Its FAQ names OpenStreetMap as the data source and sells the files under the OpenStreetMap licence; reselling the files is prohibited. ### figuregrounds.com Curated shop €9.50 per plan [ figuregrounds.com ↗ ](https://www.figuregrounds.com/) The offering closest to ours: over 200 curated cities, €9.50 each for a ZIP containing DWG and a scalable PDF, with switchable layers for buildings, streets, railway, land use and water. The provider names OpenStreetMap as its sole data source and explicitly permits use in „commercial or private projects". The catalogue is built around figure-ground drawings; if you need a different city or a different extract, you will find it there as little as with us. ### CADMAPPER Generator, freely chosen extract Up to 1 km² free (with an account), up to 100 km² paid – amount n/a; discount with an academic email address [ CADMAPPER ↗ ](https://cadmapper.com/) The best-known service in the category and the entry point for many: any extract on the world map, up to 1 km² free with an account, export as DXF, SKP, 3DM or 3DS, plus over 200 complete metropolitan street networks without signing up. CADMAPPER names OpenStreetMap, NASA and USGS as its data sources; its terms place the files under the ODbL, so commercial use is permitted but requires attribution and share-alike. For areas between 1 and 100 km² the service only says „a small fee" and states no amount – which is why the price column reads „n/a". ### CAD Atlas Generator, 2D and 3D First ~1 km² free without signing up, free for students; beyond that per km² – amount n/a [ CAD Atlas ↗ ](https://cad-atlas.com/) The generator with the widest format list and the strongest 3D offering: DWG, DXF, SKP, 3DM, 3DS, OBJ and MTL, with real building heights, street widths instead of centrelines and editable vector shadows. The first square kilometre is free without signing up, and students get free access after verifying their university address. Besides OpenStreetMap, CAD Atlas also uses Overture Maps, government cadastral records and elevation models. Its licence page declares the deliveries ODbL 1.0 works with share-alike. The site states no price per square kilometre – hence „n/a". ### swzpln.de Free generator, open source Free [ swzpln.de ↗ ](https://swzpln.de/) The most obvious free alternative, and often entirely sufficient for coursework and quick design sketches: any extract, export as SVG, PDF and DXF, plus IFC, OBJ and 3D DXF for three-dimensional models, with no price and no account. The plan is generated client-side in the browser from OpenStreetMap data, and the source code is on GitHub under AGPL-3.0. The map data remains OpenStreetMap data under the ODbL – attribution is mandatory for commercial reuse, and nobody prepares the drawing for print for you. Choosing well ## Free generator or curated plan – what matters 01### Data quality Almost every provider in this overview works with OpenStreetMap. The data is collected collaboratively, so its completeness differs from region to region – very good in densely mapped inner cities, patchier in rural areas. That applies to generators and to purchased plans alike, ours included. Whatever you buy, a look at openstreetmap.org first is worth the minute. 02### Rework required A generator export is a raw data extract: tidying layers, closing open polygons, adding labels and a scale bar is your own job. A curated plan already brings that with it. In the end the calculation is a calculation in hours – for one plan buying pays off quickly, for fifty custom extracts an automated workflow does. 03### Layer structure Decisive for working on in CAD: are buildings, streets, water and greenery on separate, named layers? Are building outlines closed polylines that can be filled and hatched? Every shop in this overview and CAD Atlas state that they are; with raw exports it is rework. 04### Scale and print readiness For submissions and competitions a plan has to sit at a fixed scale and print without touch-ups. Some providers deliberately deliver without a fixed scale and leave the scaling to you – harmless for a CAD workflow, an extra step for printing directly. 05### Licence for commercial use OpenStreetMap is published under the ODbL: usable commercially, but with attribution and share-alike. Raw exports pass that obligation on, and CADMAPPER and CAD Atlas say so explicitly. Curated shops sell their own licence instead. If the file is going into a client presentation or a publication, read this column first. More on this: [our licence terms](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/licence-copyright/) and [official base geodata and their licences](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/official-base-geodata-licences-germany/) Recommendation ## Which provider for which purpose - A quick free extract for coursework swzpln.de or CADMAPPER – both cost nothing, and swzpln.de does not even need an account. - 3D massing model with building heights CAD Atlas or CADMAPPER – both export SKP and 3DM, CAD Atlas additionally OBJ with vector shadows. - A print-ready, cleaned figure-ground plan with a clear licence schwarzplan.eu or figuregrounds.com – layer structure done, licence included. - Many cities at a small price mapacad.com – 437 cities, smaller ones from €1; for the large metropolises the price there is €15. - Any extract at any location A generator, not a shop: CADMAPPER, CAD Atlas or swzpln.de. Curated catalogues will always only have the cities they have. - Official parcel boundaries in Germany The cadastral map as a preliminary stage – or, for the legally binding extract, the responsible land registry office or a publicly appointed surveyor. [ Find your city in the shop → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/) [ CADMAPPER alternatives in detail ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/cadmapper-alternatives/) FAQ ## Frequently asked questions about CAD city maps ### Which providers sell city maps as a DWG or DXF file? Ready-made files can be bought from **schwarzplan.eu** (PDF, DWG, DXF), **mapacad.com** (DWG) and **figuregrounds.com** (DWG plus PDF). You can generate them yourself at **CADMAPPER** (DXF, SKP, 3DM, 3DS), **CAD Atlas** (DWG, DXF, SKP, 3DM, 3DS, OBJ) and **swzpln.de** (SVG, PDF, DXF). ### Are there free figure-ground plan generators? Yes. **swzpln.de** is entirely free and open source. At **CADMAPPER** an extract of up to 1 km² is free with an account, and at **CAD Atlas** the first square kilometre is free without signing up; students there get free access after verifying their university address. ### May I use an OpenStreetMap-based city map commercially? In principle yes – OpenStreetMap data is published under the ODbL, which permits commercial use but requires attribution and share-alike. Raw generator exports pass that obligation on. If you would rather not carry it, buy a prepared plan that comes with its own licence – ours is included in the purchase. ### Which provider uses official data instead of OpenStreetMap? Almost every provider in this overview works with OpenStreetMap. Official parcel boundaries from the land registry are available in this category only from us – as a German cadastral map. CAD Atlas names government cadastral records as one of its sources alongside OpenStreetMap. ### Is an OpenStreetMap-based city map enough for a building application? No. A building application requires an official site plan issued by a publicly appointed surveyor (in Germany an ÖbVI) or by the land registry office. A CAD city map is a basis for design, presentation and context – for the preliminary stages a cadastral map does the job well. ### What does a city map as a CAD file cost? The range runs from free to €20. swzpln.de is free, as are the free allowances at CADMAPPER and CAD Atlas. At the curated shops a single plan costs €9.50 (figuregrounds.com), €1 to €15 depending on the city (mapacad.com) or usually €10 (schwarzplan.eu). Neither CADMAPPER nor CAD Atlas publishes what it charges beyond the free area. More in the Catalogue - [ All Site Plans & Figure-Ground Plans Shop → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/) - [ Free Geodata & Outlines Free Tool → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/geodaten/) - [ CADMAPPER alternatives compared Guide → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/cadmapper-alternatives/) Countries & Regions ## Figure-Ground Plans by Country & Region - [ Europe 205 plans → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/europe/) - [ Germany 74 plans → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/europe/germany/) - [ Free Figure Ground Plans 40 plans → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/free-figure-ground-plans/) - [ France 16 plans → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/europe/france/) - [ Italy 14 plans → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/europe/italy/) - [ Bavaria 14 plans → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/europe/germany/bavaria/) - [ Baden-Württemberg 12 plans → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/europe/germany/baden-wuerttemberg-en/) - [ Netherlands 12 plans → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/europe/netherlands-holland/) - [ Czech Republic 10 plans → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/europe/czech-republic/) - [ North America 12 plans → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/north-america/) - [ United States of America 10 plans → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/north-america/united-states/) - [ Nordrhine-Westphalia 10 plans → ](https://schwarzplan.eu/en/site-plan-figure-ground-plan-shop/europe/germany/nordrhine-westfalia/)