Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View

149 points by leugim 6 hours ago on hackernews | 37 comments

Tiny València

An isometric pixel-art map of València, in the spirit of SimCity and of Isometric NYC. Every building is a real one, drawn from above at the same angle, block by block.

The whole municipal term is painted, from the huerta to the Albufera, except a few small huerta exclaves where there's no 3D imagery to paint from.

How it's made

Real 3D city data is rendered from a fixed isometric camera. An image model trained on a hand-picked pixel-art style then repaints it, tile by tile, each tile continuing its painted neighbours so the city stays seamless. The sea, the port basins and the Albufera are drawn in the same style.

Getting around

  • Drag to move, scroll or pinch to zoom, double-click to zoom in
  • R somewhere random · H whole map · F full screen · / search · G play
  • The address bar always holds the current view, so any link you copy opens right here.

Data

Buildings © Dirección General del Catastro · Aerial photo & terrain © IGN (PNOA, MDT05), CC BY 4.0 · Roads, boundary, coast & search © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL · 3D reference: Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles via Cesium ion.