Real geography underneath
The layout, heights and coastlines are measured, not drawn, so the map is right before you start making it beautiful.
3D map maker
Make a 3D map that looks designed.
Start from the real place — terrain, buildings, roads and water from open data — then style it like an illustration: clay-white blocks, one accent colour on the route, soft sun and a slow camera move. Render a still for a slide or an animation for a video.
Real geographyYour style
Your style, not satellite noise
Every building, road and surface is a separate object with its own material, so a monochrome model with one highlighted street is a few clicks.
Animated camera moves
Key a camera along a path for a fly-in, an orbit or a reveal, then render the frames path-traced for a clean, flicker-free result.
Light from the right side
The sun study uses the place's real coordinates, so morning light comes from the east of your city exactly as it does in the place itself.
From real place to designed map
Pick the place on a map
Search a name or an address, then drag a box. Terrain mode takes up to 100 km (25 km on a phone); city mode up to about 1 km with buildings, roads and water.
Style it in a few clicks
Pick the Map style for matte white buildings, trees and ground in one step. Every building, road and surface stays its own object, so an accent colour is one assignment.
Animate the camera
Put a camera on a path for a fly-in or an orbit, retime it on the timeline and render the frames path-traced.
Street map or topo on the ground
Drape the OpenFreeMap street map, or a topographic version with relief shading and labelled contours from the terrain's own elevation, and switch grounds later without re-importing.
A street map in 3D
The street map ground lays the map's own streets, names and water on the real relief — a quick, clean base for a location shot.
Draw a region's border
Name a country, state, county, city or park and its outline from OpenStreetMap is draped on the terrain as a ribbon.
Or just describe it
On a paid plan, mixos AI runs the same import from a sentence — the place, the look and the time of day — and keeps editing from there. It uses chat credits like any AI turn.
Why Mixos
Why a clean model beats a photo map
Explainer videos, event invitations, property brochures and travel content all need the same thing: a map that tells the viewer where something is, quickly, and looks good doing it. Satellite views are busy and dated; flat vector maps lose the hills and the skyline that make a place recognisable.
A 3D model built from map data sits between the two. You keep the real shape of the land and the real massing of the buildings, and you choose how much detail to show. Studio's Real place import gives you each building, road, water area and ground surface as its own object, so styling is a matter of assigning materials: everything matte white, the river a flat blue, the route you are explaining in the brand colour.
From there it is a normal Studio scene. Put a camera on a path for a fly-in, key a slow orbit around a landmark, add labels as 3D text, and render. The sun study uses the place's real latitude and longitude, so the shadows fall the right way for the time of day you are showing.
Credit the data. The map content is © OpenStreetMap contributors and the elevation comes from open public surveys; mixos keeps those credits with the scene so they are to hand when you publish.
From place to styled map
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Import the area
Search the place in Studio's Real place picker and draw a box. City mode brings buildings, roads and water; terrain mode covers up to 100 km of landscape.
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Style it
Assign one neutral material to the buildings, a flat colour to the water and an accent to the streets you want to point at.
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Move and render
Put a camera on a path, set the sun for the real place and time, and render stills or an animation.
Ask mixos AI
Make a clean 3D map of central Lisbon: matte white buildings, pale grey ground, the river in soft blue, and a slow orbit around Praça do Comércio at golden hour.
Before you publish
- Credit © OpenStreetMap contributors in the caption or end card.
- Check estimated building heights near the landmark you are showing.
- Keep the exaggeration at 1 if viewers will judge the hills.
Data and licence
Frequently asked questions
Can I make a 3D map online for free?
Yes. Importing a place, styling it and rendering in the viewport are free in Studio. Exporting clean full-resolution renders, video or the mesh itself requires a paid plan.
Can I animate the map?
Yes. Studio has keyframe animation with a timeline and curve editor, cameras on paths, and a path-traced renderer for the frames.
Does it include satellite imagery?
It can. The ground can wear library materials, aerial imagery, the OpenFreeMap street map or a topographic map with relief shading and contour lines, and you can switch between them after the import. Buildings and roads stay separate objects either way, so the map stays fully restylable.
Can I show a route or a border?
Yes. Import a GPX track and it is draped on the ground as a ribbon, or name a country, state, county, city or park and its border is drawn on the terrain from OpenStreetMap.
Can I use the map in a commercial video?
Yes, with credit. OpenStreetMap data is licensed under the Open Database License, which allows commercial use as long as you credit © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Read next
GLB, OBJ, FBX and STL compared
Which format keeps materials and which throws them away.
Inspect the GLB
Open the file in the browser — meshes, materials, triangle count.
How to make an STL file
Watertight remesh, thickened walls, and the checks that stop a bad print.
How to animate a 3D model
Key, retime and ease a move, step by step.
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