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Cesium
Company blog · cesiumjs.orgprogrammingdata
Cesium is the company blog at cesiumjs.org, writing about programming and data. Since 2014, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Cesium – An open-source JavaScript library for 3D globes and maps”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Cesium's site as an open-source JavaScript library for 3D globes and maps, often as an alternative to Google Earth or other mapping tools. Comments are mostly about the library itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Cesium platform provides the foundations any software application needs to use 3D geospatial data: visualization, data pipelines, curated data, and analytics. Based on open standards for data formats and open APIs for customization and integration—and built with an open source core—Cesium is ope
Most-linked posts?
- Cesium – An open-source JavaScript library for 3D globes and maps6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2014-02-17
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-02-03
What Hacker News says?
According to NoScript, it's loading the map from http://www.arcgis.com . EDIT: In the credits, they link to https://cesiumjs.org/
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on “Google Earth for live radios”Submitted Cesium – An open-source JavaScript library for 3D globes and maps as a story · 182 points
HN discussionNote for anyone using HTTPS Everywhere: The demo currently doesn't work over HTTPS, due to ' http://cesiumjs.org/Cesium/Build/Apps/CesiumViewer/index.htm... being served over HTTP.
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on “Cesium – An open-source JavaScript library for 3D globes and maps”Submitted Introducing 3D Tiles as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere are some great open source WebGL terrain renderers out there, on a planetary scale, for example: http://doarama.com/view/2171 This is built on the Cesium open source virtual globe http://cesiumjs.org/
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on “Rendering large terrains”Submitted Optimizing Subdivisions in Spatial Data Structures as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is huge. A while back this product was offered in the enterprise market for ~$100k per instance. We have been using CesiumJS ( https://cesiumjs.org/ ), which is fantastic, partly because Google stopped developing Google Earth. But it would be great to see new features added to a very mature product.
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on “Google Earth Enterprise Open Source”Submitted Total Solar Eclipses, Visualized and Animated as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOP here: This news is dissapointing. I've been using the Google Earth API for years now and while it does feel "bolted on" it's gotten the job done. Sure the updates were slow, and bug fixes/enhancements few in the past couple of years, but it works well. I'm actively looking for an alternative. Here's a brief list of what I've found. World Wind - http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/ Cesium - http://cesiumjs.org/
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on “Google Earth API has been deprecated”Submitted Lots of Satellites as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you're interested in developing virtual globe applications, take a look at http://cesiumjs.org
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on “Microsoft Invented Google Earth in the 90s, Then Blew It”https://cesiumjs.org/Cesium/Build/Apps/Sandcastle/?src=Terra...
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on “Making 3D Terrain Maps (2017)”Are there any open source map platforms like this for integrating into real time data feeds (i.e. if we want to track sales by region etc...) onto a map? I know about http://cesiumjs.org/ but it was extremely resource intensive heavy last time I tried to use it. EDIT: it looks like they use http://leafletjs.com/ -- looks interesting
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on “Norse Attack Map”The state of the art in open source 3D mapping right now is CesiumJS[0]. From browsing their docs, it looks like it's in a similar place, capabilities-wise. Unfortunately, the limiting factor for most projects isn't the JS library, but it's the availability of high-resolution DEMs (digital elevation models). These won't become widely available until we do something about the price of lidar. Fortunately, there's a lo…
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on “Melown – 3D mapping implementation in JS, smooth and silent”For Jollyturns ( https://jollyturns.com ) I'd like to overlay my users' ski tracks data, as well as various ski resort objects (lifts, runs etc) on a 3D Earth, to be displayed inside a browser. Why would I use Melown instead of CesiumJS ( https://cesiumjs.org/ )? Especially since the latter appears to be free?
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on “Melown – 3D mapping implementation in JS, smooth and silent”Bleeding edge WebGL requirements, but great 3D object control: http://cesiumjs.org/
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on “Ask HN: Are there any JavaScript libraries for generating maps?”This is nice! I recently came across another similar project: http://cesiumjs.org/ How does this compare with it? Is ViziCities more focused on political / city data, while Cesium is focused on geographic data?
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on “Open-source 3D city platform ViziCities released on GitHub”
