awesome-quantized-mesh-tiles

Awesome implementations of the quantized mesh tiles specification (terrain tileset)

Specification

https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/quantized-mesh

Tilesets

• Dutch AHN4 level 0-15 https://api.pdok.nl/kadaster/3d-basisvoorziening/ogc/v1_0/collections/digitaalterreinmodel/quantized-mesh. See metadata for details.

• Corsica France level 0 - 15 https://storage.googleapis.com/ahp-research/maquette/corsica_5m/tiles2/layer.json

• Switzerland level 0-18 https://3d.geo.admin.ch/1.0.0/ch.swisstopo.terrain.3d/default/20200520/4326/layer.json. See the documentation for details.

Encoders and decoders (Libraries)

• https://github.com/loicgasser/quantized-mesh-tile - Quantized-Mesh encoder/decoder and topology builder (Python)

• https://github.com/bertt/quantized-mesh-tile-cs - Quantized-Mesh decoder (C#)

• https://github.com/kjartab/qmesh - qmesh (Javascript)

• https://github.com/heremaps/quantized-mesh-decoder - decoder for the Quantized Mesh format (Javascript)

• https://github.com/kylebarron/quantized-mesh-encoder - fast Quantized Mesh encoder (Python)

Tile generators (Tooling)

• https://github.com/Geodan/terrain - Docker images for creating Cesium Quantized mesh terrain tiles

• https://github.com/tum-gis/cesium-terrain-builder-docker - Dockerfile for the geo-data/cesium-terrain-builder app with quantized mesh support.

• https://github.com/ahuarte47/cesium-terrain-builder/tree/master-quantized-mesh - ctb-tile with Quantized Mesh support

• https://github.com/geoadmin/3d-forge - Read/Write quantized-mesh tiles

• https://github.com/geo-data/cesium-terrain-builder - A C++ library and associated command line tools designed to create terrain tiles for use in the Cesium JavaScript library

Servers

• https://github.com/sogelink-research/ctod Cesium Terrain on Demand. Service for serving quantized mesh terrain tiles based on Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG).

• https://github.com/geo-data/cesium-terrain-server - A basic server for serving up filesystem based tilesets representing Cesium.js terrain models

Visualisation

• https://cesium.com/ - Terrain visualization in CesiumJS (https://github.com/CesiumGS/cesium) and Cesium Native (https://github.com/CesiumGS/cesium-native) for Unity3D, Unreal, Omniverse and O3DE.

• https://github.com/timoore/vsgCs - Cesium native based client for Vulkan Scene Graph (VSG)

• Deck.gl - Loaders.gl visgl/loaders.gl#729

• Quantized mesh tile viewer - https://quantized-mesh-tile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/viewer.html?z=9&x=536&y=391&tileUrl=https://bertt.github.io/cesium_terrain/texel/ahn4/tiles/19/538140/416814.terrain?v=1.1.0

Blogs

• 2023-07-27: Creating 3D terrain from Lidar data - https://bertt.wordpress.com/2023/07/27/create-3d-terrain-from-lidar-data/

• 2018-11-26: Visualizing terrains with Cesium - Part II https://bertt.wordpress.com/2018/11/26/visualizing-terrains-with-cesium-ii/

• 2018-08-31: Free Terrain Tiles for Cesium https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/08/free-terrain-tiles-for-cesium.html

• 2018-01-11: Fast Cesium terrain rendering with the new quantized-mesh output of the opensource CesiumTerrainBuilder tool - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fast-cesium-terrain-rendering-new-quantized-mesh-output-alvaro-huarte/

• 2016-12-08: Visualizing Terrains with Cesium - https://bertt.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/visualizing-terrains-with-cesium/

• 2014-10-12: Creating 3D terrains with Cesium - http://blog.mastermaps.com/2014/10/3d-terrains-with-cesium.html

Datasets

• MapTiler

Blog: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/08/free-terrain-tiles-for-cesium.html

Sample tile: https://maps.tilehosting.com/data/terrain-quantized-mesh/9/536/391.terrain?key=wYrAjVu6bV6ycoXliAPl

• World terrain dataset by Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI)

• • https://bertt.github.io/cesium_terrain/texel/ahn4/ - Texel

• Mount Ventoux on SketchFab based on MapTiler Quantized Mesh Tiles https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/ventoux-afb8aada3971440f99d3ad4361a059d3