Behind the scenes, MiniCty is just one project of Summer Street Map Company. We’ve also got TinyMtn on Shapeways, now with just shy of 1000 different 3D printed landscapes. But we get it that 3D prints are expensive (I know—-still?!?). Fortunately, with all the terrific alpine and urban data that we process, we can make “flat” maps as well.
But we’re not going to make just any flat map. That’s too easy. Anyone can download and process a street map of nearly any place in the world. What we’re going to do is give you a printed map that looks so 3D, you’ll catch yourself reaching out to touch it to make sure it isn’t.
Say hello to Summer Street Map Company on Society6. We’ve taken our carefully-processed and curated data sets, converted them to surfaces with hundreds of millions of triangles (the essential geometry of computer graphics), set up very specific lighting and reflectivity properties, and rendered them with a photometrically accurate (i.e. physics-respecting) renderer called Radiance.
We launched with 19 cities (Amsterdam, Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Madrid, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington DC) and three ski resorts (Alta/Snowbird, Breckenridge, Killington), and plan to expand the offerings into 2021.
