What does HackerNews think of abstreet?

Related project that goes more in depth with modelling a whole city section (with focus on realistic traffic patterns:

https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet - Transportation planning and traffic simulation software for creating cities friendlier to walking, biking, and public transit

Very interesting project which I played around with a bit and tried hacking on it to add cities I live in, but the slow Rust build times makes it kind of chore so never really managed to create something good with it.

I saw this on Twitter yesterday. As a datapoint, Google's policies on this stuff are quite enlightened by comparison. There are two paths people can take. One is to create an open source project. I started a game (then got distracted by other things), and A/B Street[1] also took that path.

The other major route is the IARC program[2], in which the game author owns the copyright. A friend of mine did The Shepherds Rock under that policy.

All this is to say that the policies around these things vary widely even within FAANG.

[1]: https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet

[2]: https://opensource.google/docs/iarc/

If you like streetmix you might also like https://3d.st a related project I've been working on.

Also shout out to this amazing project too https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet