GEOlayers V1.076 (Aescripts)
What is it?
GEOlayers allows you to connect directly to any common http-tileserver import geojson vectordata and much more.
High resolution satellite-maps, huge zooms from worldview to an address in your neighborhood, find POIs, Markers and Overlays, glue geotiffs to your map, import geojsons, draw country-borders, create political maps… no problem with GEOlayers.
How does it work?
This tool connects After Effects to http-tileservers and empowers you to combine up-to-date online-maps with all the advantages of AE and its Plugins. What about snapping 3D-Models with Element 3D to your map in seconds? Or creating 3D Landscapes with Trapcode MIR out of a satellite-layer and a heightmap-layer. GEOlayers will simplify your mapping-workflow.
features
- web-like scroll- and zoomable preview map
- animate maps by keyframing just one property
- exponential zoom and related scrolling
- one-click finalization with adjustable quality
- automatic online imagery-import
- automatic zoom level-blending
- automatic provider attribution
- up to 8 GEOlayers in one AE project (Only 1 in trial-version)
- GEOlayers’ views linkable
- snap markers and overlays to maps
- glue georeferenced images to maps
- GeoShape-drawer with highly detailed vector data of all countries of the world included
- import and browse additional geojson-files
- reduce shape-quality without visual worsening to keep renderings fast
- online search-engines to find addresses and POIs
- 5 standard tileserver APIs
- universal API to connect to every common http-tileserver
- local tile-directories supported
- 14 preset serverprofiles
- proxyserver support
GEOlayers comes with the following server-APIs:
- bing maps
- mapquest
- openstreetmap
- mapbox
- stamen design
- universal
Each one can be set up in several ways to get either road maps or satellite pictures for example. Mapbox has its own easy map-style editor online. Stamen Design comes up with some pretty creative styles and with the universal API you can use every common http-tileserver out there for your maps! All the APIs have a search-engine included. So just type in an address or coordinates and find it on your map!
Additional to that GEOlayers’ GeoShapes tool allows you to import geojson-files. This geographic vector-data can be drawn to shape layers with a few clicks. A highly detailed file with all the countries of our world is included.
