About · Mini St. Albert

A real place.
A small beginning.

Mini St. Albert is an independent prototype of St. Albert, Alberta, inspired by Marcelo Eduardo’s Mini World / Mini Cidades. It has not been submitted to Mini World. Neither Marcelo nor the City of St. Albert endorses this project.

Geography, not guesswork

The City of St. Albert’s open-data service supplied 24,528 building footprints, 121 park records, 3,533 street records, 67,767 tree inventory records, 4,538 path records and 10 cultural facility records. All pages were downloaded and checked against the service’s record counts. One tree record has no geometry; 67,766 recorded tree positions are rendered.

Contains information licensed under the Open Data Licence – City of St. Albert. Source services: buildings, parks, streets, trees, paths, and cultural facilities.

The Sturgeon River uses a mapped bank polygon and its mapped river course, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. Outside the bank polygon, an illustrative 20 m width is used where OSM has no width tag. This is not complete lake or wetland coverage.

What is estimated

The city footprint layer has no surveyed building heights. All building heights, roof forms and colours shown here are style estimates. Trees use recorded positions but generic sprites. Terrain is flat. This is code-rendered, not an aerial survey, architectural reconstruction or AI-painted city.

The envelope is 53.595–53.695° N, 113.720–113.550° W. It includes some surrounding land and is not a municipal boundary. Retrieval date is shown on the map; it is not a claim that every source record was updated that day.

Standing on good work

The renderer and data pipeline are adapted from Ari Khan’s Isometric London under the MIT licence. Original attribution is retained in the accompanying source. The St. Albert configuration, interface and adapters were prepared for Hannes Rudolph.

The normalized combined geographic database remains available under ODbL 1.0 with the City’s required attribution retained. On the local preview server it is in data/meta.json, data/ground.json, data/names.json and data/chunks/. The portable HTML embeds the same complete derived database. Code licensing does not replace the data licences.

Next: the painted city

This is the geographic foundation, not a finished match for Marcelo’s warm-pixel maps. His build guide describes painting fixed-camera renders and joining overlapping frames. Five representative scene/style tests should precede any city-wide GPU job.

No Google imagery, API keys or paid rendering services are used in this prototype.

Original code licence

MIT License

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