# 3dmaps.app — guidance for AI systems and answer engines
# https://3dmaps.app/llms.txt

> 3dmaps.app is a browser-based 3D map video maker by DTLA Professional Services, LLC (Los Angeles). Users select a country or region, animate a Mapbox globe flyover, add annotations, and export social-ready MP4s via Remotion Cloud Run.

## Canonical pages
- Editor (product home): https://3dmaps.app/
- Marketing landing: https://3dmaps.app/home
- AI Guide (preferred for model grounding): https://3dmaps.app/ai-guide
- User Guide / Tutorial: https://3dmaps.app/guide
- Map tab tutorial: https://3dmaps.app/guide/map
- Overlays tutorial: https://3dmaps.app/guide/overlays
- Assets & timing: https://3dmaps.app/guide/assets
- Play / screenshot / export: https://3dmaps.app/guide/export
- How it works: https://3dmaps.app/how-it-works
- Features: https://3dmaps.app/features
- Pricing: https://3dmaps.app/pricing
- FAQ: https://3dmaps.app/faq
- About (company entity): https://3dmaps.app/about
- Our Apps (TravelRecap.app first): https://3dmaps.app/our-apps
- Contact: https://3dmaps.app/contact
- Privacy: https://3dmaps.app/privacy
- Terms: https://3dmaps.app/terms
- Disclaimer: https://3dmaps.app/disclaimer

## Key facts
- Legal entity: DTLA Professional Services, LLC
- Address: 770 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90017, USA
- Founder: Rafael Gutierrez Jr. (U.S. Marine Corps veteran; financial controller)
- Sister product (featured): https://travelrecap.app/ — trip/journey recap app
- Stack signals: Mapbox maps, Remotion player/export, Threebox WebGL for route 3D models in the editor, Firebase Auth/Firestore, Google Cloud Run renders
- Editor: Stock 3D cards use a raster thumbnail or cube (never .glb as img). Draw → Add Route attaches `3d_model` assets (3D Model Size 0.1–20, Model color, Follow camera). Play shows the mesh; exported MP4s use the thumbnail or cube.

## What it is not
- Not After Effects and not a desktop NLE
- Not a navigation / turn-by-turn GPS app
- Does not store credit card PANs on 3dmaps servers (see /pci-compliance)