Edushi: Real SimCity Style Maps for China
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jun 3, 2009 18:52 JST
- Tags: China, Internet, Made in China, Retro, Sites
Edushi, a Google Maps-like website for China, has been likened to a real version of SimCity, and it is not hard to see why. The site offers gorgeous maps of much of urban China, all integrated with advanced mapping features.
Even for those who are not residents of China, beautiful isometric cityscapes and landmarks make the site well worth visiting.
Most of China’s largest cities can be explored using the program, which works much like Google maps, showing isometric bitmap imagery based on satellite photography, with great detail visible at the closest zoom levels.
The Forbidden City:
2D map of the 2008 Summer Olympics Complex in Bejing, via Google Maps:
3D map of the Olympics Complex, via Edushi:
Golden Resources Mall, Bejing:
Bank of China Tower and Citibank Complex, Hong Kong:
Renaissance Tower and Convention Center, Hong Kong:
Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong:
Sichuan TV Tower, Chengdu:
Chengdu Center, Chengdu:
Yellow Dragon Sports Center, Hangzhou:
Shenzen Civic Center, Shenzen:
McDonalds, Shanghai:
Viewers should probably be warned that actual cities may be at variance with the pristine ones depicted in the maps, particularly those cities shrouded in smog…
The program is also useful for giving directions to points on the map which users may wish to visit and showing traffic patterns integrated with Google Maps; naturally, it also provides plenty of practical shopping information in addition to appealing visuals.
Considering the amount of effort which must have gone into illustrating the cities, it seems an ideal use of China’s advantage in manpower; it might be prohibitively expensive anywhere else…
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awesomeness~
+1
Ahhh... Something that has nothing to do with feminists and bans and censors and ugly cosplayers...
I'm glad you enjoyed this one as much as I did!
But it seems these kinds of articles aren't quite as popular...
an article that doesnt make me rage. i dont see whats wrong with that. keep up the good work dude =]
Very awesome, kudos to the programmers who looked at what works, like SimCity codes and implementing it. I wonder if other cities around the world will follow suit. It may not be as realistic as google map but it sure would be fun to explore other cities like that.
How come i can't see the smog?
Hahaha, sweet.
But yeah, the one thing that kept coming to mind for me was, "It really isn't anywhere near that clean."
When I was looking at Google Maps comparison photos I noticed the drawing team forewent drawing parking lots or what appears to be ugly blight for much nicer green space and parks.
Very nice find Kip! Great innovation out of China - would be cool if the rest of the world followed suit.
Rendered 3D Google maps GO!
Google Earth already does it, but I so very definitely prefer those stylized renderings. They look so much more beautiful.
Hell, Guadalajara could totally profit from these. It would make the historic buildings from downtown so much more lively.
wow~ a non-negative news about China? from this site?
WHOA! AWESOMNESS!
really really nice..i like~
:D
I'M GONNA NUKE CHINA
Cool stuff-- thanks for posting this, guys.
Having spent a couple of years in Guangzhou I have to say many of the street renditions are rather screwy (take a look at the area around the Garden Hotel, for example-- the road that cuts under Huanshilu looks like a regular road, and the loop around the World Trade Center building [in front of the Friendship Store] across the street is completely absent) but a lot of the buildings are fabulously accurate. --And hell, the actual roads themselves are pretty screwy to begin with, so I'm willing to cut the developers some slack ;)
It'll be fun to see how this improves, and whether they bother to add other cities in greater China like, say, Taipei, Singapore, Vancouver, Fukuoka. . .
I see what you did there...
I wonder if Mongkok is also there.Last time I went there ,saw some maids distributing flyer.
Nicely done!! I wish China had better employees though..
For once, China didn't pull a china quality :p
meh~
So where can we see the basis of the military?
awesomeness~~~
Might be a good outlet to start a chain of 'Made in China' propaganda.
i fapped to this.
You fapped to this,no wounder it rained like shit yesterday.Luckly I had my umbrella
This.
+1
is really -1.
aboslutely opposite the meaning of "china quality" and "made in china"
Sweet~
That's actually pretty awesome.
awesome map, that is good for agreed in GPS
Finally something good to come out of china...
The best thing is that you know the real areas are actually far shittier. Oh, China~
just so u know, there is English version of the site, so u can visit without language problem =]
I, for one, second that opinion
3rd =]
http://hongkong.edushi.com/?l=en
Really well done, can we see naturals disasters?
real time video feed in 3D, aye?
Hey there, very cool. I can even see them burning Japanese flags at that local mob. Perfection.
Now to make a game to smash this city!!!!
What about Tiananmen Square? Do they block the view with umbrellas here, too?
Hmmm.. not bad, that's actually pretty awesome, China.
Wonder if you can see a CG old man cutting a CG old woman's breast there..
Wow, positive China related news on Sankaku? Oh it wasn't posted by Artefact, no wonder. At least Kip got a dig in about the smog.
Actually I was the one who suggested this. Go and whine about the coverage given Japan if you want to be seen as anything other than a jingoistic troll.
use of jingoistic detected
You do not look down on this
where's the Sim City -styled North Korea?
Was touring the Forbidden City and Bird's Nest just 3 weeks back. Whoever that did this has done a good job.
Same for Hong Kong's Central district. Like the BOC building and IFC 2 tower.