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Hell yes! This will be useful in my long term aim of procedurally generating rolling english hills for video game purposes... EDIT: with the resolution of this

Hell yes! This will be useful in my long term aim of procedurally generating rolling english hills for video game purposes... EDIT: with the resolution of this thing, maybe I won't need to generate them, maybe I can just set the game in the real england...

Cthulhu_ 11y ago
Has to be very long-term then, given the fact it's 11 terabytes. Of course, you probably won't need all of that data / resolution and would have enough of 1/20th of that.
- JonnieCache 11y ago
  Exactly. Maybe I'd just need to extract some kind of statistical model.
pjc50 11y ago
Are you familiar with "Sir, You Are Being Hunted"? The game's developers have a great blog on their procedurally generated English countryside.
- JonnieCache 11y ago
  I had a look at that. They've done a great job of generating enclosed crop fields from voronoi diagrams, but that's not the kind of countryside I need, rolling hills and valleys. The south downs, basically. The topography is important for gameplay. BTW for anyone interested they did a talk at some conf or other which goes into more detail than the blogpost.
hahainternet 11y ago
You don't need this data to do that. OSM already releases everything you need including gridded height data and vector building maps. I've used that data for this exact purpose before. Shoot me a message explaining what you're looking for.
- JonnieCache 11y ago
  Thanks. You don't have an email in your profile though. The one in the email field is just for HN itself to contact you, you have to put it in the `about` field for other people to see it. EDIT: my email is in my profile, so hit me up if you dont want to expose yours.
  - hahainternet 11y ago
    Hey, I did, might be caught by spam given I have a terribly hacked up MX :D
arethuza 11y ago
I'm fascinated with the idea of simulating geological processes, particularly volcanism and glaciation - probably because I live in Edinburgh!

Cthulhu_ 11y ago

Has to be very long-term then, given the fact it's 11 terabytes. Of course, you probably won't need all of that data / resolution and would have enough of 1/20th of that.

JonnieCache 11y ago
Exactly. Maybe I'd just need to extract some kind of statistical model.

pjc50 11y ago

Are you familiar with "Sir, You Are Being Hunted"? The game's developers have a great blog on their procedurally generated English countryside.

JonnieCache 11y ago
I had a look at that. They've done a great job of generating enclosed crop fields from voronoi diagrams, but that's not the kind of countryside I need, rolling hills and valleys. The south downs, basically. The topography is important for gameplay. BTW for anyone interested they did a talk at some conf or other which goes into more detail than the blogpost.

hahainternet 11y ago

You don't need this data to do that. OSM already releases everything you need including gridded height data and vector building maps. I've used that data for this exact purpose before. Shoot me a message explaining what you're looking for.

JonnieCache 11y ago
Thanks. You don't have an email in your profile though. The one in the email field is just for HN itself to contact you, you have to put it in the `about` field for other people to see it. EDIT: my email is in my profile, so hit me up if you dont want to expose yours.
- hahainternet 11y ago
  Hey, I did, might be caught by spam given I have a terribly hacked up MX :D

arethuza 11y ago

I'm fascinated with the idea of simulating geological processes, particularly volcanism and glaciation - probably because I live in Edinburgh!