Grigory Frolov
Maker of Pixel Gold Coast
Grigory Frolov builds Pixel Gold Coast — the isometric map that draws every building along the built-up Gold Coast, from Arundel down to Coolangatta, and places every business inside the building it occupies. The map is rendered from open data, starting with OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), by a hand-written canvas engine — no map-tile services involved.
He writes here about the Gold Coast the way the map sees it: suburb by suburb, building by building — what the open data shows, where it comes from, and what it can and cannot tell you.
More about him and his other work is on his personal site, and the story of how this map was built — the decisions, the data, what went wrong — is written up on its project page.
Gold Coast, Queensland (on the map, at least) · Oz Web Expert · YouTube
