{"id":2943,"date":"2022-10-23T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapflaps.com\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2025-06-11T11:09:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:09:45","slug":"why-mapflaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mapflaps.com\/?p=2943","title":{"rendered":"Why MapFlaps?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve wanted to somehow make a seagull flying over Brighton for years. In my initial attempts, I used photogrammetry techniques to extract the google data! But finally, a legal method enabled by the good folk at Nasa who developed and published some open source code which they use to visualise Mars terrain.<br>I was able to get it to work with Google 3D tiles data in my own Threejs webgl environment which means I can get to play with the materials and interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"718\" src=\"https:\/\/mapflaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MapFlaps-Seagull-800x718.jpg\" alt=\"MapFlaps Seagull\" class=\"wp-image-2944\" style=\"width:662px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mapflaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MapFlaps-Seagull-800x718.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mapflaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MapFlaps-Seagull-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mapflaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MapFlaps-Seagull-768x689.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mapflaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MapFlaps-Seagull-500x449.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mapflaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MapFlaps-Seagull-480x431.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mapflaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MapFlaps-Seagull.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">MapFlaps Seagull<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-size:0.8em;line-height: 1.3;border: 2px solid #909090;border-radius: 8px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 10px 10px 5px 10px;text-align: center;\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ben-utube\">\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Seagull Mapflaps with NASA and Google 3D Tiles\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BXhT-kn-vLs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Google currently allow 1000 free tiles per month, but you should be able to try it here :<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mapflaps.com\/seagull\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/mapflaps.com\/seagull\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So MapFlaps as a name kinda makes sense for being able to flap over a map right?<br>I had the website before a had the seagull flying, so it&#8217;s great to finally be able to justify my website name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve wanted to somehow make a seagull flying over Brighton for years. 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