Osm World

Little Big City is a fun WebGL experiment which creates a small-scale footing based on OpenStreetMap data. Pan the inset map on Little Big City as well as yous tin flame persuasion a lilliputian metropolis made large on a small-scale 3D globe.

The globe visualizes buildings, roads as well as H2O from OpenStreetMap on transcend of a small-scale 3D globe. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 radius command allows yous to alter the scale of the map information shown on the map. Increase the radius as well as yous tin flame persuasion a slightly bigger small-scale 3D globe.

The map itself is initially zoomed inwards on Manhattan. Unfortunately the map doesn't include zoom controls or a search facility. This makes it a lilliputian hard to pan the map to a novel location. For example, I assume it would lead maintain almost fifteen minutes for me to pan across the Atlantic to persuasion my neighborhood inwards London


Little Big City reminds me a lilliputian of Ecolapse, which creates a like 'small world' outcome using Google Maps Street View imagery.

Ecolapse is a prissy extension of the Hyperlapse library created past times Teehan+Lax (Hyperlapse itself unfortunately seems to no longer be - although the source code for Hyperlapse is still available on Github). Using Ecolapse yous tin flame create an animated Street View campaign alongside a really clever overhead 'small world' effect. Ecolapse distorts the Google Street View imagery to portray an overhead persuasion rather than the normal Google Maps landscape view.

You tin flame create your ain animated Ecolapse tour only past times dropping ii map markers onto a Google Map. When the animation is created yous lead maintain the selection to suspension the animation, zoom inwards as well as out of the Street View as well as role your keyboard arrow keys to scroll through the route frame past times frame.