Thank you for pointing this out! I noticed this as well. There are indeed fountains by city hall, as seen in the map below, but I also think they stand out and will probably remove them. Portions of City Hall are also mislabeled as pedestrian footways in OpenStreetMaps which were removed in the modelling process, but I plan on manually fixing these errors in future versions.

I wouldn't call those fountains "water", they aren't standing water and aren't considered water on any other maps.

Model has been updated! City Hall is once again a single building and I filled in the smaller water/fountains so the terrain looks more uniform. I'm planning on printing the new model and updating the pictures tmrw, but the print profile should include the most recent version so you should be good to download it now 👍 Thanks again for pointing this out, & let me know if you notice anything else! I'm always looking to improve my models.

Personally I use the Blosm add-on for Blender: https://github.com/vvoovv/blosm The add-on is actually very easy to use and the creator(s) provide pretty good documentation on the GitHub repo, but Blender itself can be pretty difficult to work with if you haven't used it before. From there I just do a lot of manual processing, which can take anywhere from a couple hours to a couple days even. Also check out Cad Mapper, it's a web-tool for creating models of cities. It's free for an area of 1 sq. km. or less.

Awesome! I can work with that. Thank you.

I've been trying to do this for a while now... still very limited success. Blender is a beast, imo (wants to be everything 3d for everybody so is very full of complex features...). Seems like the majority of attention is simply given to getting the Google Maps data into Blender, which seems like the easy part to me (I have done it numerous times before Google started charging for it). Blosm documentation is pretty good here: https://github.com/vvoovv/blosm/wiki/Documentation Prepping the model to print is the real challenge... especially if you are new to Blender like I am. I don't even really understand what I am looking at most of the time, but it seems like the data is so complex and messy that a ton of cleanup is required... I just don't know how to do that. The only success I've had is by watching and trying to emulate the steps in these videos: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My5HoPfOxfg 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzeJSy1z8W4 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_XsmoZJmG8&t=11s 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUkMY8Sp_AM&t=193s I am trying to do Philly as well. I think my problem is that I've captured way too much complex noisy data and don't know how to simplify in a way that actually still looks like Philly. I haven't tried CAD Mapper so will look at that and see if it helps. Had a few leads from my last attempt at this a couple months ago, but got tired and gave up. Trying to get re-energized - the Blender stuff can consume a lot of computer cycles.

Nowhere near as difficult as a transmissivity swatch card, for sure. :-). Not sure if you've tried this in Blender but it is pretty challenging to get key details. I don't think textures are even possible without recreation at the building-by-building level. Also, I'm guessing he used Google Map Tiles which is more than OSM - but also uses OSM partly. If you have done it, I'd definitely be interested in knowing how you did it.