Wolverine
Get to know the course before race morning.
The point of Wolverine now is to help someone understand the NYC Marathon course before race morning. Where are you in the race? What is around you? What should you pay attention to at this part?
The project used to include a training planner. That work is archived. I’m now building toward the entire 26.2-mile course at the level of detail in the street-level scene. The intended destination is a course you can move through and understand, not just one detailed section beside a map.
The default view is a street-level model near Central Park South. It covers roughly 160 meters and has seven guided viewpoints. You can look around and move through the section. It is a modeled approximation, with that limitation stated on the page.
That is the current starting point, not the finished coverage. The rest of the 26.2 miles is now being built, and it would be misleading to describe the live release as a full 3D NYC Marathon experience. Approximate geography is also not something a runner should use for navigation.
For the wider race, there is a separate full-course guide. It retains the Blender-rendered schematic, ten course notes, and a list for reading those notes without using the picture. It follows the course from Staten Island through the boroughs to Central Park and links out to official NYRR information.
For now, the two views have different jobs. The street-level scene shows the detail the larger experience is being built toward. The guide explains the sequence of the wider race while that work is underway. The transition needs to be clear, because someone opening the detailed scene could reasonably assume they are about to travel the entire course that way.
Expanding the coverage also has to keep the race information understandable. More modeled streets will not, on their own, explain what a runner should pay attention to. The notes and official sources need to stay connected to the places they describe, and the course needs to remain usable on a phone.
The full course is the ambition. The 160 m scene is what is live today. The official map remains the place to go for navigation, and the open question for this project is whether moving through the course helps a runner understand it better before race morning.