Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – an interactive 3D map of the city centre
120 points - today at 4:25 PM
Explore central Warsaw in voxels - slightly inspired by Minecraft, and MagicaVoxel.
You can change the date, time of day and weather, explore the city, or click on a pedestrian to control them (here a bit of inspiration from Dungeon Keeper).
Works best on desktop, but I tried to make it usable on mobile too. The initial load can take a while. It's based on several open datasets, including:
I have good memories of my visits to Warsaw. Very walkable city so I spent a lot of time doing that (despite being there on tiresome work trips).
staredtoday at 4:26 PM
There are quite a few such other projects, e.g. Streets of Prague (https://beta.streetsofprague.com/), were one can explore Prague in a top-down GTA2-like mode, based on real data.
radicalitytoday at 5:57 PM
Nice. At first glance looks cool, but then, oh my, some areas are really butchered :S Poor Old Town and Plac Zamkowy - I'm familiar with the area and at first was scanning trying to find it visually by the features I know are there, but then in this model it's very different (wrong color, many more floors in this model, a 20-story building where at most should be at most a 5-story, the old town castle looking like a gray residential 'blok' and not the prettier structure that it is!).
sixtyjtoday at 5:04 PM
Mobile version reloads, imho it is too heavy for Safari.
Well done.
As default weather - I would prefer sunny day instead of rain…
ionwaketoday at 6:18 PM
I really like this, not trying to be annoying but is the main point that we can walk around in first person or does it lend itself to be ported to minecraft or something?
Sorry to be weird and ask. Very impressive though I like it.
hollowonepltoday at 6:52 PM
small part of Downtown.. looks cool but instantly one wants more, especially if you know what this city can offer today and how rapidly it's changing its landscape!
wossabtoday at 5:18 PM
For the longest time I wanted this as the interface for a Local News website I was participating in. It was impossible at the time but I hope it will become a thing. Sure beats HTML tables with text and pictures.
harvey9today at 5:58 PM
It was raining when I opened it. Is that tied to the live weather?
It's really good, and responsive in Firefox on my android tablet.
camiestoday at 5:06 PM
Really impressive. The autumn trees and the golden hour light make it feel alive, and the landmark labels are a nice touch. Fun to fly around the city centre.
lo_zamoyskitoday at 6:35 PM
A fragment of Śródmieście (the downtown center of Warsaw). The Old Town and most of the right bank (including Praga) are missing.
In any case, very fun. Hope it improves.
throw_a_grenadetoday at 4:56 PM
A bit unfortunate it doesn't reach to the Old Town, or even Royal Palace. But impressive stuff nonetheless!
java-mantoday at 4:47 PM
Is it raining, or are those rendering artifacts on a fractional scale monitor?