A city you can read like a game map.
Pixel Brisbane draws the whole of Brisbane as an isometric pixel world — every building extruded from real footprints, every street with its real lane markings, and every business sitting inside the building it actually occupies. No aerial photos, no generic pins: a hand-built map engine renders the city the way a strategy game would.
The whole city, counted
More than businesses: the city, layer by layer
The same engine that places every cafe in its building now draws the city's other layers too: train, busway and ferry networks with every station clickable, Council river flood risk over each footprint, heritage-listed buildings with parchment roofs, schools and their catchments, public parking, dog parks, playgrounds and EV chargers. Flick the layers on the live map or browse them from Discover.
Built from open data, openly
Everything on the map has a public, checkable source — and each card says where its facts came from and when they were last synced.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
Why isometric?
Because cities are three-dimensional, and lists aren't. On Pixel Brisbane a fourteen-storey tower full of businesses looks like a fourteen-storey tower — the ×N badge tells you how much is inside, and one click opens the whole building. Cafes cluster where they actually cluster. The map is the interface.
Who builds this
Pixel Brisbane is built by Grigory Frolov — a web developer and digital marketing specialist with twenty years behind the keyboard, writing about the city on the blog the way the map sees it. Questions or ideas? Get in touch.
Run a Brisbane business?
Your business is very likely already on the map. Claiming it is free and takes about a minute: click the verification link we email to your business's publicly listed address, or add our badge to your website — no passwords, no forms either way. Verified owners get the green badge, a photo gallery, opening hours, links, and priority placement across the site.
Claim your business — freeFree even without claiming: a “getting here” block, map embed, badges and QR codes for your website — see all tools.
Spotted something wrong?
Every listing has a “Spotted an error?” link — corrections go to a human moderator, and fixes flow back through the open datasets so everyone benefits, not just this site. For anything else: send us a message.