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This is huge. A while back this product was offered in the enterprise market for ~$100k per instance. We have been using CesiumJS (https://cesiumjs.org/), which is fantastic, partly because Google stopped developing Google Earth. But it would be great to see new features added to a very mature product.

Bleeding edge WebGL requirements, but great 3D object control: http://cesiumjs.org/

There are some great open source WebGL terrain renderers out there, on a planetary scale, for example: http://doarama.com/view/2171 This is built on the Cesium open source virtual globe http://cesiumjs.org/

According to NoScript, it's loading the map from http://www.arcgis.com. EDIT: In the credits, they link to https://cesiumjs.org/

For Jollyturns (https://jollyturns.com) I'd like to overlay my users' ski tracks data, as well as various ski resort objects (lifts, runs etc) on a 3D Earth, to be displayed inside a browser. Why would I use Melown instead of CesiumJS (https://cesiumjs.org/)? Especially since the latter appears to be free?

The state of the art in open source 3D mapping right now is CesiumJS[0]. From browsing their docs, it looks like it's in a similar place, capabilities-wise. Unfortunately, the limiting factor for most projects isn't the JS library, but it's the availability of high-resolution DEMs (digital elevation models). These won't become widely available until we do something about the price of lidar. Fortunately, there's a lot of interest in reducing the cost of lidar right now for self driving cars, so maybe the situation will improve soon. I've seen really high resolution scans of small areas (Boulder, Colorado had the entire town scanned a couple years ago), and it truly blows you away. Every detail down the the shape of trees is available. [0] https://cesiumjs.org/

If you're interested in developing virtual globe applications, take a look at http://cesiumjs.org

Are there any open source map platforms like this for integrating into real time data feeds (i.e. if we want to track sales by region etc...) onto a map? I know about http://cesiumjs.org/ but it was extremely resource intensive heavy last time I tried to use it. EDIT: it looks like they use http://leafletjs.com/ -- looks interesting

OP here: This news is dissapointing. I've been using the Google Earth API for years now and while it does feel "bolted on" it's gotten the job done. Sure the updates were slow, and bug fixes/enhancements few in the past couple of years, but it works well. I'm actively looking for an alternative. Here's a brief list of what I've found. World Wind - http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/ Cesium - http://cesiumjs.org/

This is nice! I recently came across another similar project: http://cesiumjs.org/ How does this compare with it? Is ViziCities more focused on political / city data, while Cesium is focused on geographic data?

Note for anyone using HTTPS Everywhere: The demo currently doesn't work over HTTPS, due to 'http://cesiumjs.org/Cesium/Build/Apps/CesiumViewer/index.html' being served over HTTP.