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How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap

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Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine

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Show HN: Moonshine – open-source, pretrained ML models for satellite

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Generating aerial imagery with your iPhone's Lidar sensor

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3D Model of New York Available for Free (and Commercial Use)

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Self-hosted vector tiles

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OsmAnd 4.3 for Android devices

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Creating aerial imagery with a bike helmet camera (GoPro) and OpenDroneMap

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ArcGIS Maps SDK brings geospatial data to Unity and Unreal Engine

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CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City

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Show HN: Flatmap – a new tool to make vector tiles from OpenStreetMap data fast

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Shaded Relief Maps in Blender

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Show HN: Tilemaker – DIY vector tiles from OpenStreetMap data

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Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork

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Cesium for Unreal Now Available

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Visualization of 40M Cell Towers

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Geometrize: Turn Images into Geometric Primitives

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Skybolt: A C++ planetary environment rendering engine with Python bindings

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Procedural cityscapes creation: Openstreetmap import in Unity and Houdini Engine

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City Map Generator – Create procedural American-style cities in the browser

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Vector tiles in QGIS 3.14

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Guide to Making 3D Maps with Satellite Imagery in R

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Blender GIS

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Peak map: Visualize the elevation of any area using a ridgeline chart

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Show HN: Featmap – a user story mapping tool built with Go, React and TypeScript

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Carla – Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research

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OpenDroneMap – Simple Images into 3D

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Apple Maps Flyover Reverse Engineering

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Google Earth Reverse Engineering

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H3: A Hexagonal Hierarchical Geospatial Indexing System

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Show HN: Mask R-CNN Neural Network for Mapping Sport Fields in OpenStreetMap

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Carla – An open-source simulator for autonomous driving research

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Real-time 3D visualization of geospatial data with Blender

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Show HN: Using city permits to map Sonic.net fiber

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OpenStreetMap plugin for Unreal Engine 4

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Denser 3D Point Clouds in OpenSfM

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Cartographer – A real-time simultaneous localization and mapping library

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DeepOSM: Detect roads and features in imagery with neural nets using OpenStreetMap

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Using Dijkstra's algorithm to draw maps

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A high-resolution Minecraft world renderer with a Google Maps interface

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Animated vector map

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Rendering the world

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Show HN: Desert Atlas, a self-hosted OpenStreetMap app for Sandstorm

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Placemark is now open source – web-based geospatial data editor

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How to make self-hosted maps that work everywhere and cost next to nothing

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Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps

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