I don't know about this project, but OSM data included information on levels for a while (and it was used, in addition to just being there: e.g., in JOSM you can switch between levels for editing; not sure if I saw 3D rendering of OSM data before, but that's possible). While this looks like a demo by a commercial company selling "Interactive Map Solutions": not major news about OSM itself, but may be amusing to poke.
Note, that OSM lists this one and more in their wiki; https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/3D
P.S. The F4 map app is proprietary ;)
Re:3D OpenStreetMap
by notpushkin on Sunday November 06, 2022 @05:16AM
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Should we replace the link?
Re:3D OpenStreetMap
by SideburnsOfDoom on Sunday November 06, 2022 @06:00AM
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I would guess that it's "A demonstration of all the 3D data already in OpenSourceMap"
As heights and number of levels on the building has been a part of the dataset for a while now:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:levels
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:height
https://blog.mapbox.com/mapping-3d-building-features-in-open...
It's obviously not complete. I took 2 locations that I know well (different countries) and the first has relatively realistic looking 3-d building shapes. The other has nothing.
And that it's using a 3rd party engine. Since the OSM data is "open", there's nothing wrong with making use of it.
Product overview: https://www.f4map.com/
- A private or open-source map visualization engine that's doing something new? (And if so, what?)
- A demonstration of all the 3D data already in OpenSourceMap? (Has it made a leap forwards or something? How complete is it?)
- Something else?
Is this something new and newsworthy or just somebody re-posting something that's been around for a decade? I'm just totally lost here.