Cesium Roadmap for Bridging the Built and Natural Environment

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Hi Everyone

It’s been just over nine months since Cesium joined Bentley Systems. We’ve used that time to learn more about the technologies built by Bentley and opportunities to bring them to the community. As we look forward to the first Cesium Developer Conference, we are sharing our roadmap to seek your guidance as we bring iTwin digital twin capabilities to Cesium.

Our mission is to empower you, the community, to build 3D geospatial experiences at the convergence of the built and natural environment. As part of Bentley, we have the opportunity to radically empower and expand the 3D geospatial community by leveraging best-in-class technology from Bentley to benefit all the broader ecosystem. Cesium has always been guided by community input, and we’d like your feedback. We’ve published Cesium’s roadmap blog for bridging the built and natural environment with themes:

  • Advance 3D Tiles and open standards;
  • Integrate reality modeling and AI-powered analysis services with Cesium ion;
  • Expose iTwin Platform APIs and services through Cesium;
  • Introduce composable tiling pipelines to optimize your data as 3D Tiles;
  • Advance Cesium runtime engines to capitalize on new 3D Tiles extensions and platform integrations
  • Expand curated data offerings;
  • Provide reusable and configurable user experience tools and widgets; and
  • Improve learning material and ongoing maintenance.

Throughout Cesium’s history, the community has guided us, and we want to continue to hear from you. What are the products, features, integrations, and bug fixes that you would like to see? Are there capabilities within iTwin or other Bentley products we should prioritize for integration? Are there open standards we should integrate or partnerships we should invest in?

We want to hear all requests—big or small—for what you would like to see from Cesium and for the ecosystem in general. Share your thoughts with us here.

Thanks
Shehzan Mohammed

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Kudos on this ambitious roadmap ! Looking forward to seeing these innovations come to life. This roadmap confirms that Cesium remains at the forefront of 3D geospatial innovation.

Thanks for your transparency and continued commitment to the community!

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Is it possible to have both ceisum and itwinjs viewer displayed on a page at the same time?

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@zhang-zimin Thats a great question. We’d love to learn more about your use-case and what we can help with in the near-term.

In the long term, our goal is to bring features from iTwin.js into CesiumJS and other runtimes so that you can access and work with your iTwins seamlessly in CesiumJS.

What would you like to see added first into CesiumJS from iTwin.js?