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Thursday, July 11, 2013

OSM in 3D – F4

I read a Tweet about a new 3D visualisation of OSM using a new rendering engine.

It includes some animation (eg water surfaces, and fountains)…

Overall the graphic is pretty good.. but the actual data is still poor.

It assumes a flat world with no terrain, and building heights are somewhat arbitrary.

Here’s a view of Edinburgh (Scotland).. looking along Princes Street with Edinburgh Castle on the right, and Calton Hill in the distance. In reality the Castle is way up high on a volcanic plug (hill)… and the gardens infront of it are in a valley.

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http://map.f4-group.com/#lon=-3.2010387&lat=55.9519892&zoom=17&camera.theta=79.141&camera.phi=-69.901

 

Here’s another view…. this time looking at the Castle from above East Princes Street Gardens (near The Mound)

 

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Here’s a quick comparison of the first image from F4 and Google Earth… as you can see GE includes the topography.

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