The Cesium Blog
Former NGA Director Robert Cardillo Joins Cesium's Advisory Board
I’m thrilled that Robert Cardillo, friend and former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), has joined Cesium’s advisory board. I’ve known Robert for 15 years, first meeting him at a GEOINT ground station where he assured the nation was getting the geospatial information needed to maintain peace and security...
Read moreWe’re excited to share a very interesting project being made with Cesium: the National Digital Twin of Australia being built by our friends at Data61. Data61, the creator of TerriaJS, was an early adopter of Cesium and of 3D Tiles. Their NationalMap, built in collaboration with Australian government agencies nearly...
Read moreTeamwork ❤: Partnering with Spatial Networks and Vricon
We’ve officially teamed up with our friends at Spatial Networks and again with Vricon to visualize massive amounts of high-fidelity data in context - in some of the least accessible places of the world. Spatial Networks has granular, street-level data collected from on the ground surveys around the world -...
Read moreCesium: Series A Investment, Spinning Out, and the Future of 3D Geospatial
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve closed on a $5 million Series A investment from Falcon Global Capital. We’ve also spun out from our parent company, Analytical Graphics Inc. We’ve been incredibly fortunate to have had the ongoing support of AGI that allowed us to create Cesium in 2011, trial...
Read moreToday we launched a new Blender add-on that makes it easier to publish and stream 3D models on the web via Cesium ion. Cesium ion tiles and serves the uploaded content as 3D Tiles, so even multi-gigabyte models can be streamed to any device without having to download the entire...
Read moreCesium Release Roundup July 2019
We’ve begun releasing a series of integrations that allow you to easily publish 3D Tiles from various authoring programs to Cesium ion. This month we released a SketchUp extension for publishing SketchUp models as 3D Tiles. There’s more to come! Below are the other highlights of our major releases and...
Read moreVirtually Hiking Antelope Canyon with Cesium World Terrain
We’ve collaborated with Esri to enhance the 3D geospatial ecosystem by increasing compatibility between the Cesium and Esri platforms. You can now bring elevation tiles from an ArcGIS Image Service and load them as terrain in the same CesiumJS application as your photogrammetry, 3D buildings, and BIM and CAD models—all...
Read moreThe Red Bull X-Alps 2019 has been called “the world’s toughest adventure race,” and for good reason. This year’s route covers 1,138 km … through the Alps. Contestants start with a sprint from the Salzburg city center and will spend the next week or more hiking, mountaineering, and paragliding through...
Read moreWe are happy to announce the launch of the Cesium ion SketchUp extension for publishing SketchUp models as 3D Tiles to your Cesium ion account for use in CesiumJS and other applications. The SketchUp extension joins a growing list of 3D Tiles exporters that started with FME and is enabled...
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