Roadmap

Roadmap

We're always looking to:

• Write demos that showcase Cesium, especially demos that combine Cesium with other web APIs
• Support more content by writing converters from other formats (GML, GeoJSON, TopoJSON, gpx ...) to CZML using our czml-writer library
• Write tutorials and improve reference documentation and examples
• Improve visual quality and performance - details
• Improve platform support by fixing issues on various browsers, devices, or video cards
• Improve tests and test coverage; however, we don't blindly chase coverage statistics

In progress

• Streaming terrain - details
• COLLADA models - details
• Widget improvements - details
• Playback widget - details
• Space features - details
• Tutorials - details

Also see the Cesium in 2013 discussion.

To come

If you are interested in implementing any of these features, start a discussion on the mailing list.

• Mobile improvements - details
• Night lights based on streaming imagery that fade out as we zoom in - data from NASA.
• CZML External links - details
• GeoServer CZML writer
• CZML Path/History visualization - details
• Screen Space Rendering - details
• GLSL #include system - details
• Draw more shapes - walls, cylinders, boxes, extruded volumes. Optimize triangulation (faster, less triangles) for circles and ellipses.
• Batching for polygons and potential other shapes.
• Military symbol sets such as MS2525 and NTDS. SVG files?
• Improve 3D/2D/Columbus view transitions
• Support standard web servers: WMTS, WFS, WCS, ...
• Support for multiple central bodies, i.e., Sun, Moon, etc.
• Build and test server - consider travis-ci which integrates with GitHub.
• Shadows
• Video on terrain
• Vectors
• Render buildings
• Label declutter
• Polyline and polygon LOD. Douglas-Peucker reduction
• John Madden-style collaboration among multiple clients
• Particle system
• Volumetric clouds
• Imagery layers improvements - details
• Sandcastle improvements - details
• Data-Driven Renderer improvements - details
• Material system improvements - details
• Stars improvements - details
• Website Improvements - details
• Precision improvements - remove jittering from objects that still do
• Compass - know where north is
• Point clouds - example data
• Run offline
• Do we need built-in video recording? Consider ccapture.js, sandboxed filesystem
• Investigate Draft for Candidate OpenGIS® Web 3D Service Interface Standard
• Ocean improvements - details
• CZML
  • Z-ordering - czml-writer issue
  • Buffer availability and "buffering" behavior
  • Layers
  • Improved materials support
  • Custom axes & reference frames
  • Imagery and terrain sources
  • Camera/Tours
  • Arbitrary link support (# and $ in CZML spec)
  • CZML defined user interfaces, possibly with markdown
  • Model support, once Cesium support exists
  • Human readable messages/events raised in CZML
• Widgets & Apps
  • OWF widget
  • Embeddable Cesium Viewer
  • Improved TimeLine widget
  • Standard Cesium toolbar - details
  • CZML Table of contents/Document Manager widget

Google Summer of Code Ideas

Program details. Most likely due March, 2013.

• Add CZML rendering to Google Maps and/or other popular web mapping APIs
• Particle system
• GML to CZML converter

Google Code-in

Program details

ESA Summer of Code in Space Ideas

Program details. Most likely due June, 2013.

• TODO