Roadmap

We're always looking to:

• Write demos that showcase Cesium, especially demos that combine Cesium with other web APIs
• Improve platform support by fixing issues on various browsers, devices, or video cards
• Write tutorials and improve reference documentation and examples

In progress

• Client-side KML - #873
• Navigation Widget - discussion and more discussion
• New geometry types and batching - #766
• Sensors
• 3D models - details
• Space features - details

Also see the Cesium in 2013 discussion.

To come

If you are interested in implementing any of these features, start a discussion on the forum.

• General
  • ESA Summer of Code in Space Ideas
  • Tutorials - details
  • Mobile improvements - details
  • Support standard web servers: WMTS, WFS, WCS, ...
  • Support for multiple central bodies, i.e., Sun, Moon, etc.
  • Sandcastle improvements - details
  • Military symbol sets such as MS2525 and NTDS. SVG files?
• Graphics
  • Screen Space Rendering - details
  • Night lights based on streaming imagery that fade out as we zoom in - data from NASA.
  • Improve 3D/2D/Columbus view transitions
  • GLSL #include system - details
  • Particle system - details
  • Data-Driven Renderer improvements - details
  • WebGL extensions - #797
  • Vectors
  • Polyline and polygon LOD. Douglas-Peucker reduction
  • Lat/lon grid
  • John Madden-style collaboration among multiple clients
  • Terrain and imagery improvements - #526
  • Stars improvements - details
  • Ocean improvements - details
  • Render buildings
  • Video on terrain
  • Investigate Draft for Candidate OpenGIS® Web 3D Service Interface Standard
  • Point clouds - example data
  • Do we need built-in video recording? Consider ccapture.js, sandboxed filesystem
  • Volumetric clouds
  • Lens Flare
  • Visual quality and performance ideas - details
  • Tree generation - Possibly use this data to generate global procedural trees.
• CZML
  • CZML External links - details
  • GeoServer CZML writer
  • CZML Path/History visualization - details
  • Z-ordering - czml-writer issue
  • Buffer availability and "buffering" behavior
  • Layers
  • Improved materials support
  • Custom axes & reference frames
  • Imagery and terrain sources
  • Camera/Tours
  • Arbitrary link support (# and $ in CZML spec)
  • CZML defined user interfaces, possibly with markdown
  • Model support, once Cesium support exists
  • Human readable messages/events raised in CZML
• Widgets & Apps
  • OWF widget
  • Embeddable Cesium Viewer
  • Improved TimeLine widget
  • Standard Cesium toolbar - details
  • CZML Table of contents/Document Manager widget
• Infrastructure
  • Website Improvements - details
  • Travis integration - #652

Google Summer of Code 2013

• Google Summer of Code Ideas

Google Code-in

Program details

ESA Summer of Code in Space Ideas

Program details. Most likely due June, 2013.