Has anyone heard of f4map? Somehow it is able to turn your OSM edits in to 3D. These are my edits in OSM around the Lake Ronkonkoma, NY area. http://demo.f4map.com/#lat=40.8228222&lon=-73.1182558&zoom=16 I wonder if the same link can be made to OGF?
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Has anyone heard of f4map? Somehow it is able to turn your OSM edits in to 3D. These are my edits in OSM around the Lake Ronkonkoma, NY area. http://demo.f4map.com/#lat=40.8228222&lon=-73.1182558&zoom=16 I wonder if the same link can be made to OGF?
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Comment from Demuth on 1 March 2016 at 16:07
Wow, that is very cool stuff Easky!
Comment from Ernestpkirby on 1 March 2016 at 17:02
I would love for this to be an option on OGF. The level of realism it would add…
Comment from joschi81 on 1 March 2016 at 20:20
Nice idea. But if we would add 3D support one day, we’d certainly have to choose an open source software - this one seems to be a commercial solution.
Comment from Ernestpkirby on 1 March 2016 at 21:01
Ah…okay, didn’t realize that
Comment from Luciano on 1 March 2016 at 23:50
It does a great job with buildings, especially if there is detailed building-height (and even shape and color) data attached - take a look at Midtown Manhattan, for example: http://demo.f4map.com/#lat=40.7535566&lon=-73.9736046&zoom=16&camera.theta=65.913
Having said that, topo info is missing, and any 3D render will have to include that to even be interesting as far as I’m concerned. San Francisco, for example, is a little bit disturbing without its hills: http://demo.f4map.com/#lat=37.7954577&lon=-122.4113127&zoom=16&camera.theta=74.908&camera.phi=260.764 (Coit Tower, on left, is on top of a hill - it should be higher than the iconic Transamerica Tower at center)
But of course, that makes it even more challenging to adapt to the OSM standard, since OSM proper doesn’t include topo info. For the real world, if this app wanted to include it, free topo info is available and could be integrated inside this tool, but for OGF that’s another layer that would have be drawn, uploaded, hosted, and rendered. All “possible”.
But, as joschi81 points out, we would need an open source version.
Comment from Ernestpkirby on 2 March 2016 at 17:50
I’m not sure how it works, but I did find one open source 3D generator- http://osm2world.org/ Doesn’t look as good though
Comment from BMSOUZA on 2 March 2016 at 23:08
Yesterday I took a look and explored more maps, I took a look in the details of Manhattan too… So I took a look in Rio de Janeiro and I like one thing I see and dislike another thing. What I dislike is exactly what Luciano is talking: no-topo-maps. What I like (very much) is, was shown Rio de Janeiro at night, and raining, exactly like it was yesterday! Sadly it is not a open source software… But about this another one Ernest talk about, I see it as a good intention. I would like to test it. When I go home, next week, I can try something, if ti is free…
Comment from Mikelatham on 3 March 2016 at 00:32
the main problem is that some buildings have given hight, while others like the 30 story skyscrapers in Stamford Connecticut are flat
Comment from Luciano on 3 March 2016 at 04:34
The 3d presentation can only be as good as the data in OSM. The Manhattan skyscrapers show up nicely because OSM contains height, color, and shape information attached to the buildings. Eventually someone will tag Hartford’s buildings, and then they’ll show up better. Incorporating topo info is more fundamental, and more difficult relative to the tool design. I actually think the osm2world link Ernest shared has more potential in this respect.
Comment from Mikelatham on 4 March 2016 at 18:12
Oh Nice! I Just noticed that when puting height in some buildings in Stamford on OSM