Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

Post by hacklewoodple » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #19

lawrencechen wrote: post #12

Behind the scenes stuff: https://sf.isopolis.city/dev.html > The source is Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles. Isometric.nyc explored and rejected the use of 3d building data. It is pretty insane that US gov has free LIDAR data for every city in the US available to the public. I spent > Now that we have the 3D tiles, we need to generate the ground truth pairs for training! Similar to isometric.nyc, I generated a few ghib…

> I'm stoked for the golden era of side-projects! Love that attitude. Me too!

Post by burnoutdv » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 8:46 PM UTC

karpour wrote: post #67

Honest opinion: Really charming on first look, but nothing where you can get lost in the details, because once you look closer, the soullessness of the generated imagery comes through. So I spent about 5 minutes looking at it, then moved on, and likely won't ever go back there. With other things, like Floor796 that other people pointed out, I can spend so much time looking at all the labor of love that went in there,…

Post by karpour » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 10:30 AM UTC

burnoutdv wrote: post #83

karpour wrote: post #67

Honest opinion: Really charming on first look, but nothing where you can get lost in the details, because once you look closer, the soullessness of the generated imagery comes through. So I spent about 5 minutes looking at it, then moved on, and likely won't ever go back there. With other things, like Floor796 that other people pointed out, I can spend so much time looking at all the labor of love that went in there,…

I was thinking the same..in fact it made me think enough that I wrote a blog/rant article about the topic AND created then a HN account. Well not this one specifically but all the other projects together I have seen recently and I just happened to have time today https://burnoutdv.bearblog.dev/the-golden-age-of-hobbyiest-p...

Post by jkbyc » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 2:47 PM UTC

burnoutdv wrote: post #83

karpour wrote: post #67

Honest opinion: Really charming on first look, but nothing where you can get lost in the details, because once you look closer, the soullessness of the generated imagery comes through. So I spent about 5 minutes looking at it, then moved on, and likely won't ever go back there. With other things, like Floor796 that other people pointed out, I can spend so much time looking at all the labor of love that went in there,…

I was thinking the same..in fact it made me think enough that I wrote a blog/rant article about the topic AND created then a HN account. Well not this one specifically but all the other projects together I have seen recently and I just happened to have time today https://burnoutdv.bearblog.dev/the-golden-age-of-hobbyiest-p...

Post by johnfn » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 1:50 AM UTC

justusthane wrote: post #88

johnfn wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ouch, this seems unnecessarily harsh for a side project made for fun. This might be acceptable if this was a low effort single prompt to an AI but it’s pretty clear from the write up that that is far from the case. FWIW I thought this was really cool.

I don't think was unkind, and I think that if you make something public, opinions are always warranted.