Asymmetri Labs/A city, in progress

Vancouver.

Explore the city. See what's changing.

Vancouver V0.5 — ExperimentalA small slice of the waterfront.
Plenty more city to come.

Make it your drive.

Only eastern False Creek is modelled. Ground streets are playable; bridges remain view-only.

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Meet me by the water.

Preparing False Creek, one small detail at a time…

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EASTERN FALSE CREEK VANCOUVER, BC
Find your corner of the city.
Drag to orbit · scroll / pinch to zoom · two fingers to pan
2015 footprints · 2013 / 2009 heights + estimates

Three starts. A city of turns.

Follow a route or leave it whenever you like. You steer; relaxed pace gives you time to look around.

Science World

The geodesic dome at the eastern end of False Creek was built for Expo 86. It remains one of the waterfront’s most recognizable landmarks.

Original simplified dome model; dimensions are illustrative.

A city experiment, just getting started.

Explore from the air or take the wheel. Try Village backstreets, West-side corners and the North shore crescent, then choose your own turns. On phones, Drive opens a clear playing view; Menu holds the map, routes and settings. Relaxed pace reaches 22 km/h and Normal reaches 68 km/h. Tap a ground street on the map for directions. The 2.4 km False Creek loop still offers optional Cruise; other routes are manually driven. Walking, bridge driving, traffic, historical layers and proposed developments are not included yet. Granville Island and the rest of Vancouver are outside this first area.

This is an independent Asymmetri Labs experiment, unaffiliated with the City of Vancouver or any political party. It is not a current survey or a navigation tool.

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Real geography. Honest limitations.

Building footprints are from 2015. 18 heights use matched NRCan February 2013 LiDAR maximum roof heights, 102 retain City 2009 measurements, and 316 remain illustrative. These are historical approximations, not current building measurements. Terrain is flat. The simplified 2002 shoreline is supplemented by park polygons. Street widths, turning aprons, road-clearance trims, promenade, models and trees are artistic approximations. Source data was retrieved on 30 October 2026.

Data, credits and open-source licences

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver and the Open Government Licence – Canada.

Vancouver code and original models: MIT. Three.js: MIT. No third-party photos, fonts or model downloads. No OpenStreetMap data is included in this release.

Design research: AI2033 Taipei, Slop New York and Taipei Policy Islands. Vancouver uses an original implementation.

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