Map data and licences.

• D1 · New York city recipe

  Buildings, roads, water and land cover of a detailed 4 km cell; terrain, water, major roads and a skyline profile of a 48 km area around it; a surface grid; fictional support data used only by the game.

  Sources: Overture Maps 2026-07-22.0 (no longer offered by Overture); Copernicus DEM

• D2 · Terrain and surface tiles

  20 fine tiles (1/8°) over the city and harbour and 25 coarse tiles (1°) over the region: elevation and a surface grid of land cover, water and roads.

  Sources: Overture Maps 2026-09-23.0 water and roads; Copernicus DEM; ESA WorldCover 2021

• D3 · Mapped building boxes

  436,972 buildings around New York as 640,569 boxes, with heights, classes, roof shapes and colours where mapped.

  Sources: Overture Maps 2026-09-23.0 buildings and building parts

• D4 · Landmark and park data

  The mapped footprints and heights two tower forms were built from, the Central Park paths, water and lawns, and four ferry-terminal markers.

  Sources: Overture Maps 2026-09-23.0

• D5 · Transport routes

  Ferry and harbour-tour lines and four air routes. Stops, timetables and flight paths are invented for the game.

  Sources: Overture Maps 2026-09-23.0

Not included: the game, its builds, program code, 3D models, textures, other cities' data and the raw source downloads.

What the images show

The images are captures from Disaster: Earth, a game in development, recorded in a development build on 6 October 2026. They show a data-aligned fictional simulation: places are built from open map data, but buildings, heights, materials, services and events are simplified, inferred or invented. Nothing shown is a forecast, an emergency map, a survey, or a statement about any real building, operator or service.

Map data (ODbL)

Contains information from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors) and the Overture Maps Foundation, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL).

Open Database License 1.0OpenStreetMap copyrightOverture attribution

The Overture data includes, as Overture attributes it:

• Microsoft Global ML Building Footprints, licensed by Microsoft under the Open Database License.
• Esri Community Maps contributors, available under CC BY 4.0.
• Building heights from the USGS 3D Elevation Program (U.S. public domain; credit: U.S. Geological Survey).
• Road data from TomTom.

Overture releases used: 2026-07-22.0 for the detailed city cell (no longer offered by Overture) and 2026-09-23.0 for everything else.

Terrain

Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.

The organisations in charge of the Copernicus programme by law or by delegation do not incur any liability for any use of the Copernicus WorldDEM-30.

Copernicus DEM GLO-30, 2021 release, sampled and resampled by Trailmark Studios. Elevation values in the download stay under the Copernicus DEM licence, not the ODbL. Copernicus DEM licence

Land cover

© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Modified: classes were resampled to coarser grids, remapped to the game's land classes and overdrawn with water and roads. Land-cover values in the download stay under CC BY 4.0, not the ODbL. CC BY 4.0

3D models

Some boat models in the closer New York views use model components created with Meshy, modified by Trailmark Studios. All other models, textures and effects are made by Trailmark Studios. No models are included in the download.

No endorsement, and questions

None of the organisations named on this page endorses Disaster: Earth or Trailmark Studios. The images themselves remain © Trailmark Studios. Questions about this data: hello@trailmarkstudios.com.

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