mehmetkeremturkcan/boundless-nyc

BoundlessNYC: compiled city

This dataset holds the runtime content of BoundlessNYC, a real-time digital twin of Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens compiled from public municipal records. It contains:

• the compiled city as binary streaming tiles;
• the vehicle, pedestrian and prop models, textures, typefaces and skies the renderer loads;
• the built WebGL2 client;
• assets for the offline Blender target (Blender/).

The simulation server of the desktop release serves this folder, as does the interactive demo. The source code, compiler and Python API are in the GitHub repository mkturkcan/boundless-nyc.

Version	v0.2.0 (git tag; use --revision v0.2.0 for a release-matched download; v0.1.0 keeps the first release)
Coverage	Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens
Contents	building prisms with per-building attributes, streets and markings, lane and sidewalk graphs, street furniture and trees; detailed models of 125th Street, Central Park and Hunters Point
Size	about 4.6 GB (Content/ 4.1 GB, Blender/ 0.5 GB)

Layout

Path	Contents
Content/tiles/	t_<i>_<j>.bin near tiles, far_<i>_<j>.bin far-field tiles, manifest.json, bridges.json
Content/models/	glTF vehicles (fleet24/: the CARLA set, MTA buses, NYPD, USPS, DSNY, school bus, delivery and service vehicles, the NV200 taxi), pedestrian bodies, outfits and animation clips (peds24/, with the Rocketbox set in peds24/rb27/), street props (carla/), street trees (trees25/, trees36/, bxtrees/), Central Park's fountain figures, boulders and rowboat passengers (cp33/), the Alma Mater (landmarks/)
Content/textures/	PBR ground and facade sets (KTX2 and JPEG), the material library (pbr/, 35 sets), Central Park's stone, timber and metal sets (cp33/), shrub and hedge atlases (veg/), eight HDRI skies, city-scale sky-occlusion bake (cityao.*)
Content/index.html, Content/assets/	built client
Content/{data,luts,fonts,basis,settings}/	campus, elevated-rail and landmark geometry and the street-tree inventories; colour LUTs; Inter and the sign typefaces; Basis transcoder; graphics defaults
Blender/	the street tree set at film detail (bxtrees/: Blender files, geometry, impostors, textures) and the window interiors (bxwin/), read by the OpenUSD export in boundlessjs/tools/ar34/export/

Each near tile holds, for one 512 m square in a metric frame (x east, z south):

• building prisms with per-building attributes;
• road, kerb and sidewalk surfaces;
• lane and crosswalk markings;
• the lane and sidewalk graphs for traffic and pedestrians;
• street-furniture placements and tree records.

The client decodes tiles in boundlessjs/src/world/tiledata.js. boundlessjs/tools/pipeline/compile.mjs produces them.

Usage

Desktop release (Windows x64). The release archive on GitHub includes this folder. To restore it in an extracted release:

hf download mehmetkeremturkcan/boundless-nyc --repo-type dataset --revision v0.2.0 --include "Content/*" --local-dir <release folder>

From source, the client needs the three binary banks (tiles, models, textures). The smaller banks are committed to the repository.

hf download mehmetkeremturkcan/boundless-nyc --repo-type dataset --revision v0.2.0 \
    --include "Content/tiles/*" --include "Content/models/*" --include "Content/textures/*" --local-dir .cache/hf

BUILDING.md in the repository explains how to place the files and how to recompile the tiles from the public sources.

Sources and licences

The tiles derive from NYC Open Data (Building Footprints, PLUTO, facade-inspection filings, Street Centerline, 2015 Street Tree Census, NYC Parks Forestry Tree Points, hydrants, parks, borough boundaries, bus shelters, LinkNYC kiosks, bicycle parking, bus lanes, the DoITT 3D Building Model), New York State open data (MTA subway entrances, NYSERDA distributed solar), OpenStreetMap, USGS 3DEP elevation and NAIP imagery, FHWA MUTCD outlines, green-roof footprints (Treglia et al., The Nature Conservancy, 2016) and Roofpedia (Wu and Biljecki, 2021).

Licences, in brief (LICENSE.md has the full table):

• Compiled city (tiles, derived data): ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors. Rendered imagery may be used under any terms with that attribution.
• Vehicle, prop and pedestrian models: CC BY 4.0, CARLA Simulator (carla.org), except the Rocketbox pedestrian set (models/peds24/rb27/): MIT, Microsoft Rocketbox Avatar Library. Motion clips (100STYLE) and bag models: CC BY 4.0.
• Original models (the NYC buses, service and delivery vehicles, street trees, the Blender tree set): CC BY 4.0, M. K. Turkcan. Derived from third-party models: the NV200 taxi ("Dhl delivery van" by memoov) and the box truck's cab ("Isuzu FFR" by mekanismo), CC BY 4.0; the Angel of the Waters ("Engel" by noe-3d.at), CC BY 4.0; the cherubs ("Putto auf Fisch" by noe-3d.at) and the boulders (Poly Haven scans), CC0 1.0.
• Textures and skies: CC0 1.0 (Poly Haven, ambientCG). Typefaces: SIL OFL 1.1 (Inter and the sign families), Apache 2.0 (Roboto Slab, Yellowtail). Built client: MIT.

The dataset contains no Street View or other third-party photography.

Citation

BoundlessNYC is a separate follow-up project, developed and maintained by Mehmet Kerem Turkcan. If you use BoundlessNYC, the compiled city or imagery rendered with it, please cite BoundlessNYC itself:

@software{turkcan2026boundlessnyc,
  author  = {Turkcan, Mehmet Kerem},
  title   = {{BoundlessNYC}: a real-data, real-time digital twin of New York City},
  year    = {2026},
  version = {0.2.0},
  url     = {https://github.com/mkturkcan/boundless-nyc}
}