Facelift for OSM2World rendering engine

One of the projects during this year’s Google Summer of Code was B4sti’s effort to modernize OSM2World’s rendering engine. Thanks to his contributions, the OSM2World slippy map now looks better than ever before.

Before-after comparison in Graz:

Olympic park, Munich, with clearly visible shadow effects:

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in OSM2World’s Java client:

The new graphical features are of course also available for users of the Java client, as additional render style attributes. The downloads and documentation are still being updated, please be patient!