Welcome to Shadowmap 1.0. This major release features worldwide buildings, as well as improved performance and camera handling. We are also introducing our offer for professionals: Shadowmap Pro.

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How to use Shadowmap

• Use one finger (or left mouse button) to pan/move the map.
• Use two fingers next to each other (or right mouse button) to rotate/tilt the camera.
• Zooming is achieved through a two-finger pinch gesture or the mouse wheel.
• Use the side-panel to adjust date/time or to search for a location.
• You can switch between two different visual quality settings with the gear-button at the bottom right. Use the first one for older/less capable devices. Shadowmap Pro offers an additional high quality setting – requiring fast hardware.

What's new in Shadowmap

• Global buildings: We are now able to visualize buildings on the whole world – powered by available open data. Keep in mind that data quality varies depending on the location.

  Sometimes buildings are lacking height information and we need to fall back to a default height (currently: 15 m). We are working on making this customizable.

  Vienna still shows up in its LOD2 (level of detail 2) glory and we will additional cities of similar quality in the future.

• We are proud to announce the launch of Shadowmap Pro, our unprecedented solution for professionals.

  For its launch, Shadowmap Pro offers full camera freedom, the ability to choose arbitrary points in time and a high quality rendering mode. Keep in mind that the latter is demanding and requires modern and capable hardware.

  To try Shadowmap Pro, use the "Shadowmap Pro" button below the side-panel. Use the free 10 days trial-period to find out if Shadowmap Pro fits your needs. Keep in mind that our current 50% off launch offer is limited to the first 100 subscribers and will stay with you for as long as you are subscribed.

  And this is just the beginning, we are working on new amazing features and will keep improving and innovating – and we are in close contact with our customers to build what they need.

  We are proud to keep offering the main functionality of Shadowmap for free and we will integrate additional free features in the future.

FAQ

Shadowmap is in constant evolution and beside new features, we're also aware of current issues:

• I can't find my housenumber
  House number precision is currently not supported. We are working on better location search.
• There are seams, especially in hilly areas
  Those bug us more than you think. We're reworking the whole rendering engine with additional benefits.
• Can I set a reminder for a specific event? Can I export a location/find a rout to a location?
  These are also features we are working on – among many others.

Acknowledgements & Thanks

We are grateful for the following people, work and data. Without these, Shadowmap would not be the same. Shadowmap heavily relies on open data, crowdsourced by many people all over the world. In these regards, we want to especially emphasize OpenStreetMap and its contributors: Their work is a prerequisite for Shadowmap.

• Basemap © Toursprung (Danke, Helge)
• Mapzen/Nextzen Terrain Tiles (Additional attribution)
  
  • ArcticDEM terrain data DEM(s) were created from DigitalGlobe, Inc., imagery and funded under National Science Foundation awards 1043681, 1559691, and 1542736;
  • Australia terrain data © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2017;
  • Austria terrain data © offene Daten Österreichs – Digitales Geländemodell (DGM) Österreich;
  • Canada terrain data contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada;
  • Europe terrain data produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union - EU-DEM layers;
  • Global ETOPO1 terrain data U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • Mexico terrain data source: INEGI, Continental relief, 2016;
  • New Zealand terrain data Copyright 2011 Crown copyright (c) Land Information New Zealand and the New Zealand Government (All rights reserved);
  • Norway terrain data © Kartverket;
  • United Kingdom terrain data © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved;
  • United States 3DEP (formerly NED) and global GMTED2010 and SRTM terrain data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
• Nextzen Vector Tiles (Nextzen Developers)
• 3D buildings for Vienna, Austria © Stadt Wien
  • Datenquelle: Stadt Wien – data.wien.gv.at
  • Lizenz: Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International
• Three.js – the best Javascript 3D engine out there
• noUiSlider
• Pikaday
• Algolia Places
• Proj4js
• Spherical Mercator
• SunCalc

Customer support information

Please provide this information when you contact the customer support at aloha@shadowmap.org:

• User: logout
• GIT commit ref:
• Maximum texture size:
• Maximum anisotropy:
• Precision:
• Supported WebGL extension:

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