3D Drone Mapping

Melown Maps brand WebGL 3d maps from aerial photographs. If you lot tin capture aerial imagery of a place amongst a drone Melown Maps tin transform your imagery into a 3D textured map, including terrain, trees too buildings.

The Melown Maps website includes 3 nifty demos of 3d maps built from drone imagery: the High Tatra Mountain Range betwixt Slovakia too Poland, Krasiczyn Castle inwards Poland (pictured) too the Pantheon inwards Paris. Right-click too drag on the maps to rotate too disputation the view.

Melown Maps is but the almost recent representative of an independent companionship releasing an awesome WebGL 3d mapping platform.


Czech online mapping portal Mapy besides has an interesting novel 3d option. The beta version of Mapy 3d allows you lot to explore some of the Czech Republic's gorgeous historic centers inwards glorious 3d.

The 3d map includes controls to adapt the height too direction of your view. It fifty-fifty includes a neat 'helicopter' selection that rotates your stance approximately the map center. The locations where the beta 3d stance is available is a picayune patchy at the moment. If you lot zoom out on the accompanying map you lot tin run into where 3d stance is available (shaded ruby on the map).


This Bing WebGL Demo is besides real clever. The exhibit uses Bing Map tiles, pinnacle information too BabylonJS to practice an animated 3d drive-through of whatever route.

Enter a starting quest too a goal into the exhibit too you lot tin stance a drive-through of the calculated road inwards 3d. You tin speed-up or slow-down the charge per unit of measurement of the animation too you lot tin drag the map approximately to alter the direction of your view.

The exhibit includes a carte of a few pre-configured routes or you lot tin larn into your ain locations to generate a route. If you lot desire to stance your ain road thence I propose you lot larn into somewhere amongst hilly terrain to larn the sum 3d final result of the pinnacle data.