Cesium VS polymaps

Compare Cesium vs polymaps and see what are their differences.

Cesium

An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps :earth_americas: (by CesiumGS)

polymaps

Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers. (by simplegeo)
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Cesium polymaps
10 2
11,821 1,597
1.8% 0.2%
9.8 0.0
7 days ago 9 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

polymaps

Posts with mentions or reviews of polymaps. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-09-06.
  • Polymaps
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2021
  • Top Javascript Maps API and Libraries
    9 projects | dev.to | 6 Sep 2020
    Web-site: http://polymaps.org/ GitHub stars: 1.6k, https://github.com/simplegeo/polymaps Pricing: Free Map Data Source: OSM, Bing Dependencies: None License: SimpleGeo and Stamen copyright Category: Library Examples: http://polymaps.org/ex/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Cesium and polymaps you can also consider the following projects:

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

mapbox.js - Mapbox JavaScript API, a Leaflet Plugin

kartograph.js - UNMAINTAINED Open source JavaScript renderer for Kartograph SVG maps

OpenLayers3 - OpenLayers

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

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

jqvmap - jQuery Vector Map Library

gmaps - the easiest way to use Google Maps

VTS Browser JS - JavaScript WebGL 3D map rendering engine