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Cesium gets down to earth

The data is out there and there’s more of it every second. Founded in 2011, Cesium is a software platform for 3D geospatial data. The company grew out of the aerospace industry when a team from AGI (Analytical Graphics Incorporated) spun off to develop a streaming content engine for geospatial data. Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi said they saw a trend ...

Kathleen Maher

The data is out there and there’s more of it every second. Founded in 2011, Cesium is a software platform for 3D geospatial data. The company grew out of the aerospace industry when a team from AGI (Analytical Graphics Incorporated) spun off to develop a streaming content engine for geospatial data. Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi said they saw a trend for streaming graphics in 2011 driven by the widespread commoditization of powerful GPUs combined with “fast enough” JavaScript and the arrival of Khronos’ WebGL for browser-based streaming graphics. The AGI team also saw an unprecedented proliferation of geolocation data from
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