Ol3-Cesium by openlayers

Create your map using OpenLayers 3, and visualize it on a globe with Cesium.

Getting started

To obtain OL3-Cesium, either download a release from https://github.com/openlayers/ol3-cesium/releases, or clone the repository and build it yourself (see below).

Applications using this OL3-Cesium distribution also need to load OpenLayers and Cesium resources (all included in the distribution):

<link rel="stylesheet" href="ol3/css/ol.css" type="text/css">
<script src="ol3/ol.js"></script>
<script src="Cesium/Cesium.js"></script>
<script src="ol3cesium.js"></script>

Any OpenLayers map can be switched to a 3d globe view by running the code below after the map has been created:

var ol3d = new olcs.OLCesium(map); // map is the ol.Map instance
ol3d.setEnabled(true);

The above will use a flat surface all around the globe. To use terrain, simply add a terrain provider (can be your own, but in the snippet below it's one that ships with Cesium):

var ol3d = new olcs.OLCesium(map); // map is the ol.Map instance
var scene = ol3d.getCesiumScene();
var terrainProvider = new Cesium.CesiumTerrainProvider({
  url: '//cesiumjs.org/stk-terrain/tilesets/world/tiles'
});
scene.terrainProvider = terrainProvider;
ol3d.setEnabled(true);

Building the library

Requirements for building OL3-Cesium:

To get started, clone the OL3-Cesium repository, and simply invoke

$ make dist

from the root of the repository. You will then be able to use dist/ol3cesium.js for your applications.

Running the examples in debug mode

This is useful for contributing to OL3-Cesium, because it loads the source files instead of a minified build:

$ make serve

will make the distribution examples available at http://localhost:3000/