Cesium with Vite

I followed the instructions in this article to make a vite project with cesium;

• https://cesium.com/blog/2024/02/13/configuring-vite-or-webpack-for-cesiumjs/

Originally I tried simply copying static resources to Vite's public folder. This doesn't work, the cesium engine promptly starts making invalid MIME requests for some reason. You must use some ported webpack plugin to copy Cesium node_modules apparently... I don't understand these build tools enough to know why that is.

There is another Cesium example project here pretty much like this one;

• https://github.com/CesiumGS/cesium-vite-example

Cesium Offline Deployment

Following instructions here;

• https://github.com/CesiumGS/cesium/blob/main/Documentation/OfflineGuide/README.md

Change constructor arguments to avoid using online resources;

• https://cesium.com/learn/cesiumjs/ref-doc/Viewer.html#.ConstructorOptions

Adding Map Markup;

• GeoJSON/TopoJSON
• Keyhole Markup Language

Cesium Ion

I set up an Cesium Ion account for myself

• https://ion.cesium.com/assets/

This account is used throughout their tutorials to deliver terrain, textures, tiles, etc.

• terrain example
• build a flight tracker
• visualize a building

Notes

• Format Guides;

  • CZML: Markup language for cesium scenes
  • GLTF: JSON derived format for describing 3d models on the web

• Example Cesium projects in Sandcastle;

  • mixing layers
  • more layer examples w. knockout UI

• Cesium has a variety of ways to load tiles

  • https://cesium.com/learn/cesiumjs/ref-doc/ImageryProvider.html
  • https://cesium.com/learn/cesiumjs/ref-doc/TileMapServiceImageryProvider.html
  • https://cesium.com/learn/cesiumjs/ref-doc/UrlTemplateImageryProvider.html

• We might consider generating our own tileset to host with something like GDAL or GeoTools. Maybe some online SaaS like MapTiler...