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Posted by stared 4 hours ago

Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – an interactive 3D map of the city centre(p.migdal.pl)
Explore central Warsaw in voxels - slightly inspired by Minecraft, and MagicaVoxel. You can change the date, time of day and weather, explore the city, or click on a pedestrian to control them (here a bit of inspiration from Dungeon Keeper).

Works best on desktop, but I tried to make it usable on mobile too. The initial load can take a while. It's based on several open datasets, including:

- OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=6/52.02/19.14) - buildings, streets, sidewalks, tram tracks, etc

- GUGiK / Geoportal (https://www.geoportal.gov.pl/) - LiDAR for building heights and trees, aerial imagery for colours

- Warsaw's city tree database (https://mapa.um.warszawa.pl/) - individual tree species, used for seasonal foliage

Open-source (https://github.com/stared/warsaw-vibe-voxel), so feel invited to (re)use it as you wish!

120 points | 24 commentspage 2
lo_zamoyski 2 hours ago|
A fragment of Śródmieście (the downtown center of Warsaw). The Old Town and most of the right bank (including Praga) are missing.

In any case, very fun. Hope it improves.

throw_a_grenade 3 hours ago||
A bit unfortunate it doesn't reach to the Old Town, or even Royal Palace. But impressive stuff nonetheless!
stared 2 hours ago|
Good point! I've already expanded the area from something much smaller (so to go to the National Stadium and so on). The first draft is easy, since Opus 5.5 is good at working with open data and checking against it.

What takes much more time is polishing. Sometimes things are jagged or wrong, streets are disconnected, some tree crowns float in the air, and bridges look like they’ve been hit by an airstrike.

I check things manually, compare them with photos, etc.

java-man 3 hours ago||
Is it raining, or are those rendering artifacts on a fractional scale monitor?

edit: it is raining!

thehamkercat 3 hours ago||
Yes it's raining, you can change the weather on top-left of the website
stared 2 hours ago||
It's raining, man :)
donovan-places 3 hours ago|
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