02 / Lineage
How one map became twenty-seven
Nobody planned a movement. A look got loose on the internet, then a method got loose with it, and now every few days another city turns up in pixels.
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Jan 2026
New York
Andy Coenen fine-tunes an image model to draw Manhattan tile by tile in the style of SimCity 2000. isometric.nyc is the map that starts the rest.
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Sep — Oct 2026
Two pipelines
earthToPixels renders any coordinate through a fine-tuned open model. tiny.london turns the method into a shareable LoRA, inspiring more city projects.
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Oct — Nov 2026
Everywhere
The LoRA travels. Stockholm, Seoul, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Málaga, Tashkent, Abidjan, Juiz de Fora — twenty-odd maps in five weeks, each by a different maker, each on its own domain.
The tiny.* family
- tiny.london
- tinygyn
- tinyrj
- tinysthlm
- tinydetroit
- tinyvancouver
- tinytashkent
- tinywarsaw
- tiny.blr