F4Map Changelog

• 2024-05-06
  • Accept values with unit in roof height (units are still being ignored though)
• 2023-09-21
  • Fix freeze due to slow polygons zIndex sorting with Leaflet implementation
  • Enable cars on roads
• 2023-09-01
  • Fix crash due to polygons zIndex sorting with Leaflet with multiline geometry
• 2023-07-07
  • Render building:carport as a very small building (3-4m)
• 2023-07-06
  • Implement polygons zIndex sorting with Leaflet
• 2023-06-09
  • Handle roof:cone and roof:monopitch
  • Add a color to limestone material
• 2022-07-01
  • Fix shadows acne on buildings on some GPUs
• 2021-07-01
  • Avoid details showing up inside models when model covers a whole tile
• 2021-05-31
  • Avoid details showing up inside buildings when details loads before buildings
• 2020-07-03
  • Handle WebGL context loss, for example from tab switching or laptop sleep mode
• 2020-05-06
  • Remove marker lines in 2D mode
• 2020-04-28
  • Do not propagate tag building:level:underground to parts with a min_level tag
• 2020-02-05
  • Fix SSAO shader missing in some cases
• 2020-01-27
  • Fix SSAO on MacOS Chrome/Firefox
• 2020-01-08
  • Fix lens flare at dawn and twilight
• 2019-10-23
  • Fix Halloween trees / tombs not showing up
• 2019-07-24
  • Avoid rendering OSM building inside a modeled building in some cases
• 2019-07-09
  • Avoid rendering multiple times the same model when it crosses tile boundaries
• 2019-03-26
  • Only use level tag when it's negative, positive values depends on country usages
• 2019-02-15
  • Limit tree flickering when loading modeled buildings
  • Prevent animated details disappearance after moving in map
• 2019-01-21
  • Reload failing tiles in leaflet fallback
• 2018-12-12
  • Avoid rendering cranes in modeled buildings
• 2018-11-28
  • Change random number generation
  • Load textures when rendered, instead of preloading
• 2018-11-08
  • Fix tiles elevation rendering under sea level
• 2018-10-23
  • Modeled buildings are now retrieved per tile, alongside osm buildings
  • Halloween event
  • Fix flying fountains and trees with elevation enabled
  • Fix building and details rendering when under sea level
• 2018-10-03
  • Caravans height is now between 2.5 and 3 meters (from default 7 to 10 meters)
• 2018-09-27
  • Fix wrong colors on linux browsers
  • Handle zinc material
  • Use an improved format for osm buildings, uses less bandwidth
• 2018-07-20
  • Remove cranes from brownfields
• 2018-03-16
  • Fetch modeled buildings from a new dedicated server
• 2017-11-20
  • Handle level with multiple levels inside, using the first numeric one
• 2017-04-19
  • Added cherry trees, using latitude to set them in flowers (blooming) or not.
• 2017-01-27 * fixed a roof only building height problem
  • Added man_made=antenna, mast or communications_tower as towers
• 2016-12-01
  • Christmas trees
• 2015-2016
  • optimizations
  • Cascaded shadow maps
  • improved shadows with elevations
• 2014-05-06
  • optimizations
  • improve vineyard, fountain and water rendering
  • fix rendering under Linux
  • improve 3dr roof shape handling
  • improve roof shapes on multi-polygons
• 2014-04-25
  • reduce memory footprint
  • improve water rendering
  • improve ground filtering when looking at an angle
  • improve ground shading with elevations
  • improve sky cloud cover with weather forecast
  • handle moon fraction for night lighting
  • improve wetland rendering in 3D
• 2014-04-14
  • memory optimizations
  • new map style when looking from far away
  • improve 3D texts style
  • slightly improve buildings and camera position when elevations are enabled
  • increase building and details cache
  • improve WebGL support detection
  • use Minimal Oriented Bounding Box for roof generation when roof:orientation=across/along (otherwise use Straight Skeleton)
  • handle roof:shape=saltbox
  • improve Sky clouds from weather forecast
  • improve day/twilight/night blending and add a fake HRD when sun reach the horizon
  • use real moon position and phase for night lighting
• 2014-03-20
  • many optimizations
  • restore dynamic weather handling
  • add spawn animation on buildings
• 2014-03-12
  • switch to demo.f4map.com
  • reduce memory footprint
  • improve startup time
  • improve Screen Space Ambient Occlusion process
  • improve dynamic shadows
• 2014-03-06
  • new graphic option to render post processes even when moving
  • improvements in Screen Space Ambient Occlusion process
  • restore rendering of natural=tree_row
  • fix shadow flickering
  • several graphic optimizations
• 2014-02-26
  • misc optimizations
  • improve sky and water rendering
  • improve roof default height when tag is missing
  • handle roof:shape=sawtooth
  • handle roof:direction tag (for skillions and sawtooth)
  • update tiles style
• 2014-02-07
  • update 2D and 3D tiles style
• 2014-01-30
  • add 3D rendering of aerialway
  • improve shadows with ground elevations
  • improve buildings generation
• 2014-01-28
  • improve water effect
  • handle cloud cover in sky dome and remove clouds layer
  • handle more weather condition
  • handle direction tag on sculpture
  • misc memory and performances optimizations
• 2014-01-16
  • improve water effect
  • real time 3D features reflection on water (not working with ground elevations)
  • smooth ground lighting with elevations
  • memory optimization
• 2014-01-09
  • handle step_count flag on building:part=steps
  • darken/lighten rendering according to current weather cloud density
  • ground elevation optimizations
• 2014-01-08
  • handle landuse=plant_nursery with aligned bush
  • handle landuse=orchard with aligned deciduous trees
  • improve tile style
• 2013-12-23
  • handle roof:shape=skillion + building:part=steps combined with steps:height=*, check out the result on Bercy
  • fix bugs on skeleton computation on building with parts
  • fix wind direction on smokes & clouds
• 2013-12-14
  • geometry optimization
  • lower memory usage
  • misc bug-fixes
• 2013-11-30
  • increase max zoom, it is now possible to move closer to the ground
  • misc optimizations
• 2013-11-25
  • buildings roof generation now uses Straight Skeleton algorithm.
  • fix roof height auto detection when not given from OSM.
  • man_made=chimney are now renderered with hyperboloid shape.
• 2013-11-07
  • broken polygons from OpenStreetMap are not handled anymore and display a 3D error text
  • misc optimizations
• 2013-11-04
  • graphic optimization on urban and natural details
  • add LOD on trees
  • add outline and SSAO to trees, walls, hedges...
• 2013-10-08
  • improve camera movement when elevations are enabled
  • handle polygons with landuse=vineyard
  • exclude building:parts=true" polygons from building generation process
  • handle building:part=roof by ignoring wall extrusion
  • elevation has been moved to graphic option window and stored in a cookie, change is now applied on the fly
  • remove bleeding building edges when simplified during building:part integration
• 2013-10-03
  • randomly add boats on route=ferry and waterway with boat=yes
  • improve roof ridge detection
  • improve dynamic shadows on dusk and dawn
  • improve ground lighting with elevations enabled
  • fix smoke and fountain color for Mac drivers
• 2013-09-27
  • better handling of buildings position when elevations are enabled
  • handle man_made=petroleum_well with an animated model
  • handle min_height on barrier=wall/fence
  • handle cables=number on power lines
• 2013-09-23
  • handle ground digital elevations (disabled by default, use the top right green button to enable them)
• 2013-09-20
  • handle polygons with multiple details tags (i.e: barrier=wall + amenity=fountain will render both)
  • handle multi-lines building and building:part that create self-intersecting polygons on import
• 2013-09-19
  • handle natural=stone and megalith_type check out Carnac
  • handle roof:slope:direction as string "N" "NE" "E" "SE" "S" "SW" "W" "NW"
  • server hardware update
• 2013-09-05
  • handle highway=street_lamp
• 2013-09-02
  • handle natural=grassland on ground tiles
• 2013-08-23
  • randomly add animated construction cranes on "landuse=construction"
  • add some random to wind generator animation
  • add buildings synchronization date on footer
• 2013-07-23
  • added graphic options
  • labels on the map
  • added tree species support (coniferous, deciduous and palm)
  • randomize scrubs, forests and cemeteries pattern
• 2013-07-12
  • handle real height for trees and sculptures
  • add highway crossing on ground tiles thanks to cquest and osmfr-cartocss
• 2013-07-05
  • add sports terrains on ground tiles thanks to cquest and osmfr-cartocss
  • change sky color on dusk/dawn
• 2013-06-27
  • smooth normals on Dome & Onion roofs
• 2013-06-24
  • f4 map now uses geodetic coordinates in url
  • handle building materials
• 2013-06-19
  • improved building part to building association detection
  • handle real time weather conditions
  • handle real sun light direction
  • handle roof:shape=skillion
• 2013-06-14
  • building parts properly removed from building
  • building parts inherits tags from building
• 2013-06-10
  • f4 map goes public