3d-tiles VS Cesium

Compare 3d-tiles vs Cesium and see what are their differences.

3d-tiles

Specification for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets :earth_americas: (by CesiumGS)

Cesium

An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps :earth_americas: (by CesiumGS)
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3d-tiles Cesium
2 10
1,998 11,839
2.2% 2.0%
5.4 9.8
about 1 month ago 6 days ago
Batchfile JavaScript
- Apache License 2.0
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3d-tiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of 3d-tiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-16.
  • VRML
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2022
  • Convert data to 3D tiles next format
    1 project | /r/gis | 24 Nov 2021
    Is there any tool available to convert geographical data (SHP for instance) to 3D Tiles Next format (as presented here https://github.com/CesiumGS/3d-tiles/blob/main/specification/README.md) that allows to manage large tileset.json file by splitting it into smaller tileset.json files attached to their corresponding bounding boxes ?

Cesium

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cesium. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing 3d-tiles and Cesium you can also consider the following projects:

3DTilesRendererJS - Renderer for 3D Tiles in Javascript using three.js

Leaflet - 🍃 JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps 🇺🇦

osmnx - OSMnx is a Python package to easily download, model, analyze, and visualize street networks and other geospatial features from OpenStreetMap.

mapbox.js - Mapbox JavaScript API, a Leaflet Plugin

GeoStats.jl - An extensible framework for geospatial data science and geostatistical modeling fully written in Julia

OpenLayers3 - OpenLayers

cesium - An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps :earth_americas: [Moved to: https://github.com/CesiumGS/cesium]

terriajs - A library for building rich, web-based geospatial data platforms.

JTS Topology Suite - The JTS Topology Suite is a Java library for creating and manipulating vector geometry.

maplibre-native - MapLibre Native - Interactive vector tile maps for iOS, Android and other platforms.

navigation - Repository for the discussion and research in to navigating from page to page whilst staying in immersive mode. Feature leads: Rik Cabanier and Brandon Jones

gmaps - the easiest way to use Google Maps