Maps Mania: Digital Actuality OpenStreetMap


screensapure of flying towards Tower Bridge in London in osm4vr

osm4vr is a digital actuality world constructed utilizing OpenStreetMap map tiles and constructing footprints. Utilizing osm4vr with a VR headset you possibly can discover the world in digital actuality. Alternatively, if you do not have entry to a headset you possibly can merely fly around the globe in your browser as an alternative.

Many of the 3d buildings are created utilizing OSM constructing footprints with constructing heights, so the graphics could be a little fundamental. In VR you possibly can flap your arms and fly around the globe. Within the browser you should use your arrow keys and mouse to navigate round as an alternative. osm4vr additionally has a search field so you possibly can shortly transport your self to any location on the earth.

a street in v3 with crude 3d buildings and trees

You can too discover OpenStreetMap in digital actuality utilizing VR Map. VR Map shows OpenStreetMap information as a digital actuality setting with 3D buildings and bushes. You’ll be able to transfer round this demo VR Map utilizing your keyboard’s arrow keys (or the W,A,S,D keys) and by utilizing your mouse to pan across the scene.

At the moment VR Map means that you can discover just a few choose places around the globe (together with Vienna, San Francisco and New York). Nevertheless should you fork VR Map on GitHub you possibly can change the preliminary map coordinates to any location on the earth. The digital actuality setting makes use of an OpenStreetMap tile layer as the bottom layer. Buildings tagged in OSM are extruded by their peak tags (or to fifteen metres if the constructing would not have a peak outlined). Timber are rendered utilizing the OSM tags for peak, circumference and diameter_crown.

osm4vr was impressed by VR Map. Nevertheless, whereas VR Map works solely in restricted areas (due to geographical information pre-downloaded from OSM), osm4vr masses the OSM map tiles and buildings dynamically so you possibly can freely transfer round the entire world.



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