New! Explore Yell.com in 3D Photo-real Maps UK

New! Explore Yell.com in 3D Photo-real Maps UK

3D Photo-real imagery comes to a few cities in the United Kingdom in Yell Maps Beta.

"In a UK-first, the photo-realistic 3D maps were created from actual film footage shot from light aeroplanes using sophisticated aerospace technology, which is then merged with other film taken from ground level. They can be used for free on the Yell.com website, which is the online version of the Yellow Pages directory. "

Rendering in 3D Buckingham Palace.

• Buckingham Palace

Discover the residence of the Royal Family in the heart of Westminster from a 3D perspective.

• Bull Ring Birmingham (see image above)

View the Bull Ring shopping centre of Birmingham and discover the quirky Selfridges building from the air.

• Leeds Town hall

Explore Leeds from a new perspective and fly over one of the largest Town Halls in the UK.

• Old Trafford Stadium (Manchester United)

View from the air Old Trafford the Theatre of Dreams, where the famous football club Manchester United play.

Full Url to the Birmingham Bullring

http://www.yell.com/maps/MapAction.do?null&scrambleSeed=&lat=52.477107889650064&lon=-1.8925879721339858&zoomFactor=3&type=&viewer

Mode=3dmap&pitch=39&heading=286&height3d=292&scfov=80&intCam

Source:

Slashgeo

http://technology.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=10/06/16/196240

Google Maps Flash API - 3D Perspective

Google Maps Flash API - 3D Perspective

"2-D maps are great, but sometimes it's cool to gaze into the distance. Today we're happy to announce support for perspective"


Official Example:Driving Directions with Panoramio along a route in 3D Perspective

You can manipulate the 3D map using the same keyboard controls as you use on Google Earth and within the Maps API. Clicking and dragging moves the map in the direction being dragged, as you would expect. When dragging the map while holding down an optional modifier key, however, you can alter the attitude of the map:

• SHIFT alters the rotation and attitude of the map around a clicked point.
• CTRL (or the Apple key) alters the rotation and attitude of the map from the point of view of the camera.

Ian Watkins has created this 3D perspective UK Weather Map


Keir Clarke (Google Maps Mania fame) points out to @mapperz the nice youtube video that demonstrates the flashiness of the UK Weather Map

The key and simple code to make the changes are:

Map3D.viewMode = View.VIEWMODE_PERSPECTIVE;

and replace the old position and zoom controls with the
new navigation control:

addControl(NavigationControl);

Full details and documentation
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/3d-maps.html

Want even more Flash Demos
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/demogallery.html

Official Blog Post and Source:
http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/07/3d-perspective-in-maps-api-for-flash.html