Minimap Maker
Frame any spot on Earth and capture it.
Minimap Maker
Terrain pucks of any spot on Earth.
Data sources
- Elevation — Copernicus DEM (ESA, free for personal use), NASA SRTM, JAXA AW3D, AWS Terrain Tiles. Served via OpenTopography where applicable.
- Satellite imagery — Esri World Imagery (© Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics).
- Map / buildings / water — © OpenStreetMap contributors, via the Overpass API.
- Place names — Nominatim reverse geocoding.
- 3D engine — three.js.
- Built with the help of Claude.
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OpenTopography API key
Copernicus DEM is served via OpenTopography, which needs a free API key. Sign up, copy your key, and paste it here. It's stored only in your browser.
Prefer no signup? Switch the Elevation dropdown to AWS Terrain — it's keyless and global.
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Pan and zoom to frame the square.
Export frame · 4 : 3
Texture source
Resolution
Re-fetch the satellite imagery at a sharper zoom. Elevation data is untouched.
Style
Stylized re-renderings of the satellite imagery. Cached after first compute.
Image
Brightness
Contrast
Saturation
Sharpness
Surface bump
Micro-relief from the texture's high-frequency luminance.
Water
Shore closeness
Feather
Scene
Geometry
Z-exaggeration
Vertical scale. 1.0× is true-to-life; higher values dramatize relief.
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