Low Poly Globe web app with shareable map URLs

This is absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing a bit about the behind the scenes on this Steve. Initially I thought there was some shader magic going on to get the low poly look (like in this thread Forcing a low poly look on Cesium3DTileset) but I can see that’s basked into the imagery from Mapbox.

I love how polished this feels. I also love that this inspired by your work in printing. I think it’s really cool when expertise from different media like this can overlap and cross pollinate (this is in some ways the story of CesiumJS itself, folks applying computer graphics techniques to the cartography/GIS world).

One thing I had trouble with is actually finding places where I knew there were interesting landmarks. I kind of wish there was a geocoder or some way I could just enter a longitude/latitude. I had to put together a Sandcastle to print the X/Y/Z of the location I click on to then enter that in the URL in the low poly globe viewer.