May 2024 Monthly Update: Realistic cities with buildings, OpenStreetMap integration and automatized map generation (Patreon)

First of all, I want to thank you for your support. We have recently surpassed 120 members on Patreon and I am genuinely surprised by the appreciation!

I invite you to join the Discord server of the community to deepen, propose ideas and discuss the project together! https://discord.com/invite/SXvNS8x2pJ

The work of the past few months has been focused on creating a program that automates all the necessary processes to generate maps. This has allowed a drastic acceleration of the time needed to generate and distribute them, with greater attention to detail. The software indeed automatically adapts to the scale of the map, chooses the best possible data for the selected world area, and is fully customizable according to the user’s needs.

The most spectacular thing I have focused on, however, has been the integration of Openstreetmap data into the maps. OSM (OpenStreetMap) data allows the creation of entire cities with buildings with realistic heights, road networks, sidewalks, parks. 

The map of Baltimore and Annapolis at a 1:1 scale will be the first official version presentable to the public of something like this, but it is only a beta version of what will be the final software in the coming months. OSM data also helps to obtain coastlines, rivers, lakes, and biomes with enormously better details than those in previous maps.

OpenStreetMap data is a gold mine of information, the goal of the next projects will be to try to exploit them to the fullest, inserting details present in OpenStreetMap such as the shape of the roofs of some buildings, the material of the buildings, the individual trees present, street lamps, traffic lights, and much more!

All this makes sense thanks to your support. From now on, I will make a monthly post to update you on the latest developments news and on future projects.

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