Capoluoghi Regionali d'Italia

On the left-hand side is a 4 x 5 grid of circular maps showing the city centres of each of the twenty regional capitals of Italy. Only polygons of parks and gardens (green), buildings (white) and piazzas (red) are shown. Above each circle is the city title, with the region name below. On the right-hand side is a map of Italy, showing the regions (in red) and the regional capitals are labelled in green. The whole figure has a black background. — Capoluoghi Regionali d'Italia: Parks, buildings and piazzas in Italy's Regional Capitals. Day 3, Polygons, of the 2024 #30DayMapChallenege.

projection	UTM Zone 33N
tools	python: `geopandas`, `matplotlib`, `osmnx`, `cartopy`.
data	OpenStreetMap contributors.
font	Scoglietto by Petra Heidron
comments	It took me far too long to work out the required OSM tags for regional capital city `nodes` (`tags={'capital':['4','yes']}`, in case you were wondering). My custom matpotlib function for putting text along a curved path means the kerning looks a bit off on some of the region names, and the right edge of the region names appears to be curving away from the circle above. A scalebar somewhere would be useful (radius of ~300 m).
date	03/11/2024