Skip to content

v2.0.0 — Swat in the Atlas

Choose a tag to compare

View all tags
@zeshanabdullah10 zeshanabdullah10 released this 02 Oct 10:34
· 102 commits to main since this release
v2.0.0
df0fb18

Swat Valley and Lower Swat as real-time, golden-hour illustrated 3D maps, with every ridge, river, road and place at its true position. Real data sets the facts; AI only paints, speaks and plans on top of them.

Live at https://zeshanabdullah10.github.io/TinyAtlas/ (open Swat Valley or Lower Swat from the gallery)

What's new

  • The Atlas: a new real-time renderer (atlas.html) for whole valleys, about 70 × 70 km at 30 m, with chunked terrain, a ground colour baked in Blender to match the posters, golden-hour light and long shadows, instanced conifer forests, turquoise lakes and rivers, roads by class, and towns built from OpenStreetMap footprints.
  • Swat Valley (Kalam, Utror, Gabral, Ushu, Matiltan, Mahodand, Kumrat) and Lower Swat (Mingora, Saidu Sharif, Udegram, Barikot, Malam Jabba, Madyan, Bahrain), linked through the Explore dock.
  • Gandhara heritage in 3D: Shingardar, Amluk-Dara, Saidu Sharif, Butkara I and Gumbat stupas (procedural, real dimensions), plus the Swat Museum, the White Palace and the Thal wooden mosque (from licensed photos, TRELLIS).
  • Place panels with the Urdu name, story, timeline, photo credits, and facts that open to show the verbatim quote from their source.
  • Plan a day draws the planned route on the terrain, with travel times by road class (jeep tracks about 14 km/h).
  • Save for offline: a whole valley (about 98 MB, or about 55 MB without photos).
  • Hollow dots mark places hidden behind a ridge. Heights are exaggerated and landmarks drawn larger than life, and the map says so.

Data

Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · ESA WorldCover 2021 (CC BY 4.0) · Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · photos via Wikimedia Commons, each credited · Poly Haven sky (CC0).

Known issues

  • The audio guide for Swat isn't included yet; it comes in the next release (English, generated on-device).
  • The older places (Hunza, Skardu and others) still use the previous interface.
  • Shaded valley floors in close views are darker than in the posters. Some trek routes have gaps where OpenStreetMap has none (they are shown as gaps).
  • Offline saving of a whole Atlas pack hasn't been tested on a real phone yet.
Assets 2
Loading