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Can't describe the excitement that tools like thise bring to me. I remember when we used to create cities in Sim City 2000 and then navigate them in Sim Copter and Streets of Sim City. I'm hoping to see something similar happening with photo-realistic levels of accuracy.

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There's a few projects that do rendering and 3D geometry construction from OSM Data, e.g.

- https://streets.gl (data outdated, sadly)

- https://demo.f4map.com/ (commercial, no textures)

- OSM2World (sadly not interactively on the web, good textures, lots of rendered details, e.g. street signs)

- osmbuildings.org (no live data, no roof shapes)

None are really photo-realistic, and there's are a bunch of problems in the map data where it's hard to infer good 3D geometry, e.g. stairs.

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