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A decade ago or more I played a lot of action quake and I remember when I travelled to Europe how awesome some of the locations would be as levels.

A future fun FPS mod would be to take the output from a project like this and randomly throw you in various small parts of the world for team competitions.

People could play their whole lives and learn every major city’s layout. :)

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I can see the headlines already:

> Satanic video game trains children on how to shoot up their neighborhoods

It could probably be done with Cesium for Unreal, although I question weather it's a good idea to provide shooter games in real locations. Perhaps a less violent sandbox game would be a better idea.

https://cesium.com/platform/cesium-for-unreal/

There is also plugin for Godot Engine[0] and a lot of other frameworks[1] and tools.[2,3]

[0] https://github.com/RodZill4/godot-openstreetmap

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Frameworks

[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/3D

[3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/3D_Development

Shooter games are just paintball wars for the brain.

That's more or less what was done in Overwatch from Blizzard. Each map is based on a real location/city and uses its local architecture, typical layout... (However it's not 1:1 with reality. For example the map Rialto is obviously based on Venice, but you won't recognise any particular street or place).

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