MrGrandTheftAuto Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 (edited) Fans at GTA4.net have constructed an elaborate interactive map of Grand Theft Auto 4's Liberty City, powered by Google Maps and featuring Street View capabilities. Fans do the coolest things sometimes. A dedicated group of Grand Theft Auto 4 lovers at GTA4.net spent two months putting together an interactive map for Rockstar Games‘ latest iteration of Liberty City, as seen in GTA4. If you’re familiar with Google Maps and Google Street View, then you should feel right at home navigating the interactive map, as that’s the model it uses. It’s not quite as streamlined — for example, there seems to be no way to switch back to the main map once you’re in Street View — but it’s a neat project that serves up all of the info a GTA4 player might like, including location filters for weapon pickups, pigeons, diversionary activities and other elements of the game. Giant Bomb chatted with Nick, one of the map’s creators, who revealed that the entire effort consumes a whopping 125 GB of disc space. That includes 78,494 screen shots, 3,019 equirectangular panoramas and 1,029,000 tiles. The map has pulled in more than 2.1 million views since it launched. “Rockstar had done a great job making Liberty City feel like a real, living, breathing place so the idea of adding a ‘street view’ feature followed on naturally,” Nick told Giant Bomb. “At the time, it was just that: a nice idea but not something we could actually do.” That attitude change when Google granted developers access to Street View within the Google Maps API. “The scale of it was a bit of a worry, mainly the cost of hosting and serving so many images,” Nick said. “Luckily ‘Tank,’ owner and bill payer for all our GTA fansites [at] gtanet.com, was all for it.” Much of the photo-snapping was relegated to process-automating scripts, though humans had to get involved eventually to photograph more than 3,000 locations and stitch them together. The result, as you can see at the above link, is pretty impressive. Edited August 31, 2011 by MrGrandTheftAuto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUN3R Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Am I the only one who realizes that the shit he posts is older than Jesus... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz The Great Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Am I the only one who realizes that the shit he posts is older than Jesus... Well, did YOU post about it? For that matter, did ANYONE post about it? No? Wow... Pretty sad no one has posted yet on such old news. Again, maybe some of your opinions and comments should just be left to yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUN3R Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Well, did YOU post about it? For that matter, did ANYONE post about it? No? Wow... Pretty sad no one has posted yet on such old news. Again, maybe some of your opinions and comments should just be left to yourself. I get all my news from TGTAP so I'm pretty sure someone did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGrandTheftAuto Posted August 31, 2011 Author Share Posted August 31, 2011 Am I the only one who realizes that the shit he posts is older than Jesus... I didnt see anything on the fucking forum! Thats why i posted it! Well, did YOU post about it? For that matter, did ANYONE post about it? No? Wow... Pretty sad no one has posted yet on such old news. Again, maybe some of your opinions and comments should just be left to yourself. ^ I FUCKING AGREE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUN3R Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I didnt see anything on the fucking forum! Thats why i posted it! ^ I FUCKING AGREE Course you do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGrandTheftAuto Posted August 31, 2011 Author Share Posted August 31, 2011 Fuck off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustADummy Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Flaming isn't needed. The news are old yes, GTANetwork released this back in April or so, and Tuner chill the fuck out and keep your crappy opinions that don't contribute anything to yourself, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrLlamaLlama Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Elephant in the room. Can we all stop typing in italics? kthx Also though the news is hardly new, it's not as if it had reached our corner of the internet yet. I certainly hadn't seen / heard of it. And the fact you're bitching about spam in this thread and go on the devalue high content posts from the same user make you look like a bit of a...dick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGrandTheftAuto Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 Nobody is typing in italics! theres something wrong with this post or something. The news is old. I have not seen it on TGTAP, i posted it. Tuner, everything i post is not spam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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