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tiny frankfurt

Frankfurt as a tiny pixel-art city, square by square.

So far: 7 of 584 squares (1.2 %): Altstadt, Innenstadt, Sachsenhausen and the banking towers. Growing district by district.

What is this?

An isometric pixel-art map of Frankfurt am Main. Zoom in, pan around, and watch the trams, boats, bikes and people.

A weekend hobby project. Free, no ads, no cookies.

How it was made

1. A 3D Frankfurt from open data: every building with its real roof shape, plus streets, the river, parks and trees.
2. Real colours from Google Maps.
3. Pixel art: the 3D city is turned into pixel art, then redrawn by an AI (Qwen-Image-Edit) so it looks hand-drawn.

Credits & licences

• Map data ©2026 Google: Google Maps Photorealistic 3D Tiles (used for the colours and shapes of the buildings).
• Geobasisdaten © Hessische Verwaltung für Bodenmanagement und Geoinformation (HVBG): 3D buildings and aerial photos.
• Trees: Baumkataster, Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Grünflächenamt (dl-de/by-2.0).
• © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0): streets, water, parks.

Thanks

tiny.london, isometric.nyc and Pixel Berlin showed the way. More tiny cities: tiny-world.