Ruby Can Draw Cities Now

January 9, 2026

How I built a pure-Ruby GIS engine that renders Paris, Tokyo, New York, and more

Most people don’t think of Ruby when they think about maps, GIS, or visual computing. If you want to draw a real city, the standard stack usually looks like:

• QGIS
• PostGIS
• Mapnik
• Mapbox
• or a heavy JavaScript pipeline

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