Who’s going to move to Vancouver now?

Software engineer Afian Anwar was riding his bike across Vancouver’s Burrard Street Bridge about six months ago and saw the third high-rise under way for Senakw, an 11-tower housing project in Kitsilano.

His consulting company, Afi Labs, does 3-D mapping for Google Maps, so he decided to map out Senakw, to determine if it would block views of Vancouver’s famous mountains. Mr. Anwar had been using the technology during his research when buying a house to determine if his and his wife’s views would ever be blocked by development, if they purchased in Kitsilano Point, for example. He created a photorealistic 3-D map of Senakw to determine sightlines from anywhere in the city.