A region you can read like a game map.

Pixel Sunshine Coast draws the whole Sunshine Coast — Caloundra to Noosa, the beaches to the hinterland — 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 region the way a strategy game would.

The whole Coast, counted

27,704buildings drawn in 3D2,779businesses on the map102suburbs covered29train stations138schools with catchments1,363buildings flood-checked

More than businesses: the region, layer by layer

The same engine that places every cafe in its building now draws the region's other layers too: the North Coast rail line with every station clickable, Council flood hazard mapping 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.

🗺️ OpenStreetMap

Building footprints, streets, parks, the river, and the businesses themselves — maintained by thousands of local mappers (ODbL).

🏛️ Australian Business Register

ABNs and legal entities matched to listings — the “Registered business” badge comes straight from government registers.

📮 G-NAF

Australia's geocoded address file keeps our suburbs and postcodes honest.

🌐 Wikidata

Official websites for national chains, so even franchise branches link somewhere useful.

📊 ABS Census 2021

Population, median age and rents for every suburb profile (suburb-level SAL data).

🌊 Sunshine Coast Council open data

The flood hazard overlay matched against every building footprint, and the events calendar (events.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au) — CC BY 4.0.

🏰 Queensland Heritage Register

State-listed places drawn with their own look on the map.

🚉 TransLink GTFS

Timetables for every train and bus departure in South East Queensland (CC BY 4.0).

🏫 Education Queensland

School locations and state school catchment boundaries, from the Queensland Government.

Why isometric?

Because cities are three-dimensional, and lists aren't. On Pixel Sunshine Coast 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 Sunshine Coast 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 Sunshine Coast 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 — free

Free 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.