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Any city on Earth, as a thing you can hold

How GeoFilament turns any square on Earth into a print-ready multi-colour 3D model, meshed in your browser from open map and elevation data — plus the press kit.

Every city is already a 3D model. It is just scattered across a few million OpenStreetMap edits and an elevation tileset, and nobody can hold it.

GeoFilament is the part in between. You frame any square on Earth, it builds the model in your browser, and you download a file your printer understands.

Central Bergen at 1:5,000. Every frame is real output from the production pipeline — the same mesher the studio runs, off a live map fetch and the real elevation data.

What is actually happening

  • Buildings, roads, water, parks and woodland come straight from OpenStreetMap.
  • The hills are real elevation data — with the buildings subtracted back out of it, so a riverside quay prints as a wall rather than as a staircase of rooftops the terrain model mistook for ground.
  • Everything is meshed at a fixed 1:5,000, so any two cities are directly comparable.
  • It comes out as one watertight body in four filaments — sand, white, blue, green — that an AMS or CFS prints in a single pass.

There is no backend. The map fetch, the elevation, the meshing and the 3MF/STL/OBJ export all run client-side, in the tab. A model is a URL, so sharing one hands somebody a recipe that rebuilds the same plate rather than a file that goes stale the next time the exporter changes.

One plate prints as a single body with no supports and no glue. Larger models are a grid of plates, and those are glued along their seams — which the pipeline plans for, so a building the grid cuts prints at one height on both plates.

Press kit

Everything below is free to use when writing about GeoFilament. There is nothing in the audio to clear: the launch film and the how-to reel are scored by an oscillator bank written for them, the frame, monument, settings and Saxen reels’ beds and the intro film’s are generated and carry an inaudible watermark saying so, and all six are read by a synthetic voice. The models themselves are produced works of OpenStreetMap data and carry its credit.

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Every city is already a 3D model.

It is just scattered across a few million OpenStreetMap edits and an elevation tileset, and nobody can hold it.

So I built GeoFilament. You frame any square on Earth, it builds the model in your browser, and you download a file your printer understands.

What is actually happening in the clip:

→ Buildings, roads, water, parks and woodland come straight from OpenStreetMap
→ The hills are real elevation data — with the buildings subtracted back out of it, so a riverside quay prints as a wall rather than as a staircase of rooftops
→ Everything is meshed at a fixed 1:5,000, so any two cities are directly comparable
→ It comes out as one watertight body in four filaments that an AMS or CFS prints in a single pass

There is no backend. The map fetch, the elevation, the meshing and the export all run client-side, in the tab. A model is a URL, so sharing one hands somebody a recipe that rebuilds the same plate rather than a file that goes stale.

The plate in the video is Bergen — real geometry from the production pipeline, not an illustration of one.

247 cities are already in the gallery. Yours probably is not. That takes about a minute to fix.

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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)

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Every city is already a 3D model — it is just scattered across a few million OpenStreetMap edits and an elevation tileset.

GeoFilament turns any square on Earth into a print-ready multi-colour model, meshed in your browser at a true 1:5,000. No backend, no account, no upload.

This is Bergen.

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Any city on Earth, as a thing you can hold.

Frame a square, and GeoFilament builds it live from open map and elevation data — terrain, water, roads, parks, trees and every building — then hands you a multi-colour 3MF your printer takes straight to the plate. Four filaments, one continuous body, no supports.

This is Bergen at 1:5,000. 247 more cities are in the gallery, and yours takes about a minute to add.

geofilament.mochi.is
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)

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GeoFilament turns any place on Earth into a print-ready, multi-colour 3D city model — built in your browser from open map and elevation data.