# Features

What MAPu does, one sentence each.

## Map and 3D

- **A moving map** — with streets, street names, the route so far and your position, frame by frame; it can turn with your heading.
- **Snap to road** — a position that GPS noise puts beside the road goes onto the road, with an adjustable tolerance.
- **3D map** — with terrain and 3D buildings.
- **3D vehicle on the map** — the vehicle's 3D model drives on the real map, with the light of the recording's time.
- **Live 3D vehicle** — it steers, leans, dips under braking and rides on its springs — from the recording's real data.
- **Built-in vehicles** — Car, Motorbike, Bicycle, E-scooter, with a colour picker; your own 3D model (.glb) can be loaded too.

![An exported frame with the built-in red motorbike in four 3D widgets: from the side and from the front at an angle on the pavement at the bottom left, from behind on the 3D map top right, from behind on the 3D scene's road bottom right.](https://mapu.hu/img/frame-3d-moto-800.webp)

_The four 3D widgets with the built-in motorbike, on an exported frame._

## Widgets and editor

- **74 widgets** — in 13 categories: speed, heading, altitude, time, distance, G-force, heart rate, GPS reception, car data and "any data" building blocks.
- **Drag and drop** — from the gallery onto the picture; move (hold Shift or Ctrl: only horizontally or vertically), resize from any of the four corners, and rotate with the mouse (click the selected widget once more).
- **Magnetic snapping** — when moving or resizing, a widget gently snaps to the edges and centres of the other widgets, the video and the frame, with a faint guide line; it can be switched off.
- **Several widgets at once** — selected together, they move and delete together, can be made the same height, aligned and spaced with equal gaps; their shared settings change together.
- **Every label can be changed** — and a widget's elements (label, number, mark) can be moved or removed one by one.
- **Presets** — save the layout under a name, or start from a shipped preset.
- **Your own widget** — one file in your widget folder, with a documented contract; the Help explains how.

![The MAPu window: the widget gallery as cards on the left, a GoPro video preview with speed, altitude, distance, clock, climb, heading and G-force widgets and a map in the middle, the selected map's properties (zoom, style, colours) on the right.](https://mapu.hu/img/en/ui-editor-light-800.webp)

_The workspace: the widget gallery on the left, the preview in the middle, the selected map's properties on the right._

## GPS and data

- **GPS from the camera** — read on its own from GoPro, Insta360, DJI and many dashcam videos.
- **11 data file formats** — GPX, FIT, TCX and motorsport logs — from a watch, a bike computer or a phone.
- **Several sources on one video** — with a primary and a fallback per data type, say the position from the camera and the heart rate from your watch.
- **Automatic timing** — a data file is lined up with the video by its timestamps; the sync view checks it on a map and fine-tunes it.
- **No made-up data** — where the source did not measure, the widget shows "--", not a number.

![The sync view: the video and a dark map with the position marker at the top, the speed curves of the GoPro and a TCX file one under the other below, each with shift buttons (±1 s, ±0.1 s) and automatic alignment.](https://mapu.hu/img/en/ui-sync-dark-800.webp)

_The sync view: the speed of both data sources under the video and the map._

## Video and GPS processing

- **Video processing** — stabilisation, exposure, contrast, colour, sharpening, vignette — the preview shows it live, the finished video gets the same.
- **GPS processing** — drop spikes, pull a wandering position into one point while you stand still, smoothing, upsampling.
- **Cutting** — trim the start, the end and parts in the middle; the widgets' data follows the cut.
- **One recording, one video** — a recording split into pieces becomes one film; the rear camera can go on the picture in a small window.

![The Video tab of the Processing drawer: stabilisation, contrast and saturation switched on with their sliders; above the picture a notice that processing makes the export slower.](https://mapu.hu/img/en/ui-proc-dark-800.webp)

_Processing: stabilisation, contrast and saturation switched on._

## Export

- **Output size** — the video's own, 4K to 720p, vertical 9:16 (Reels, Shorts, TikTok), 4:5, square or custom; the widgets follow the new frame, with a background of any colour or the blurred video around it.
- **Codecs** — H.264 (AVC), H.265 (HEVC), AV1 — hardware (NVENC) encoding on NVIDIA cards, the CPU otherwise.
- **Frame rate** — your choice; in-between frames for a higher rate, three ways.
- **Export presets** — save the settings that work for you under a name.

![The MAPu Export drawer: output folder, file name, output size (Source · 854×480), frame rate, codec (H.264), encoder (NVENC), bitrate and the Start export button, next to the video preview with the widgets and the Output bar above it.](https://mapu.hu/img/en/ui-export-light-800.webp)

_The Export drawer: output size, frame rate, codec, encoder, bitrate._

## The program

- **Everything on your computer** — no account, no upload, no tracking; only map tiles and the update check go over the network.
- **One installer** — with ffmpeg, the map style and the fonts inside; nothing else to download.
- **English and Hungarian** — light or dark, with an adjustable interface size.