OpenStreetMap
Recently I discovered the OpenMapSurfer site and its “OSM Roads” base layer, which shows OSM data in a bit different way, and after I took the look of the old and historical center of my town with it, I thought that this will be interesting for any foreign visitor(s) of my city. I added some of the POIs there, but the streets, buildings, and some of the POIs were made by my fellow mapper idelac.
Discussion
Comment from OliverG on 23 May 2012 at 15:16
Neat - finally a world map with 3d buildings. Guess I’ll have to remap my entire area now to add building heights :-)
Does anyone know how often the map is updated?
Comment from CroKimba on 24 May 2012 at 09:35
Huh? I didn’t know that it displays a map with 3D buildings, I was referring to the way it displays POIs. 3D buildings are not available in my city and so I couldn’t see it, but I can see it now on the example of Trieste. Thanks for enlightening me!
On the Info page it says that the update interval is 2 hours, but I’m not sure about that, for it took him a couple of days to display the POIs I’ve made in my city.
Comment from seav on 24 May 2012 at 18:13
Latlon.org renders 3D buildings too:
Trieste on both maps:
http://openmapsurfer.uni-hd.de/?zoom=17&lat=45.65222&lon=13.77349&layers=B0000FFF http://latlon.org/buildings?zoom=17&lat=45.65222&lon=13.77349&layers=BT
Comment from CroKimba on 28 May 2012 at 09:15
Yes, it really does. Thanks for the tip! :)