Cesium update: Mapping the world and playing with it

The latest update to the Cesium SaaS platform is a global layer of the world’s 3D buildings. In addition, Cesium collaborates with Epic to make geospatial data available within Unreal Engine.   Cesium, as we have written, provides a platform for 3D GIS data which are organized as Global Base Layers and include worldwide data for terrain, aerial imagery, and streetmaps. Now the company has added on Cesium OSM Buildings, a base layer that includes more than 350 million 3D buildings from all over the world. Cesium is using the open-source data from the OpenStreetMap Project.  “As digital twins and