Hello,
I am trying to use cesium to create point in a map. The point will be then flyable with a drone.
I have the following problem,
1) The user set a point altitude to 20 meters in a 2D flat map.
2) The point need to be create at the real world location (long/lat) + 20 meters (altitude).
3) The point will be visible on a 3D map, so at the location (long/lat) + 20meters (altitude).
Exemple (picture)
Right now, my problem is, when I set the point on the flat map, the altitude will be 20 meters, and so, in the 3D map that is using a worldTerrain, the point will be underground if for exemple, the point is on a mountain.
To fix this, I want to get the coordinate MSL, and adding 20 meter to that MSL.
(in the picture, getting the blue altitude(MSL), and then adding 20 meters to that blue altitude (50meters)
I tried to get that blue altitude by using this
var terrainProvider = Cesium.createWorldTerrain();
var promise = Cesium.sampleTerrain(terrainProvider, 11, position);
Cesium.when(promise, function(updatedPosition) {
console.log(updatedPosition)
});
but this will give me the point above the ellipsoid, and so it will still be 20meters.
Is there a way to do so ?
Also, I read that
```Just a clarification, the ellipsoid and MSL are not the same thing. The ellipsoid (usually WGS84 for Earth), is a commonly-used mathematical approximation of the Earth's shape. Mean sea level (usually EGM96 or EGM2008 for Earth) is a much messier shape determined by measuring the Earth's gravitational field at a bunch of locations, and it may be either above or below the ellipsoid. Mixing up the ellipsoid and MSL will make your heights incorrect on the order of tens of meters.```
Does that mean MSL is unusable correctly in cesium? that even if I get the correct MSL, it might not work when importing the point to cesium ?
Thank you
