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We are excited to announce Cesium OSM Buildings, a global 3D building layer covering the entire world, based on OpenStreetMap building data. This is the latest addition to Cesium’s global base layer suite, which includes global terrain maps, aerial imagery, and street maps already available on Cesium ion.

New York City, Seattle, Washington D.C., and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai shown in Cesium OSM Buildings.

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Cesium OSM Buildings is a great foundation on which to overlay high-resolution data for urban environments and more immersive experiences. Crowd-sourced and regularly updated, this base layer data will serve endless use cases: from cities that need shareable 3D solutions for urban planning, tax assessment, or traffic management, to developers who want to visualize BIM models in the real world, to government agencies that need innovative tools for training and simulation.

Cesium OSM Buildings is included in every Cesium ion subscription starting today and is included by default in any newly created Cesium layer. You can also add it to your CesiumJS application with a few lines of code:

var viewer = new Cesium.Viewer('cesiumContainer');
viewer.scene.primitives.add(Cesium.createOsmBuildings());

Cesium OSM Buildings consists of over 350 million buildings. While the full dataset is hundreds of gigabytes in size, it can be efficiently streamed and visualized on the web through the magic of 3D Tiles. 3D Tiles is an open standard, so Cesium OSM Buildings can be used in any compatible viewer, not just open-source Cesium.

OpenStreetMap provides rich metadata in most cities, such as building names, addresses, and opening hours.

Cesium OSM Buildings sits solidly on Cesium World Terrain with clean edge outlines, and each building is individually selectable and stylable. In most cities, the rich metadata associated with each building, and even individual parts of buildings, can be used with dynamic styling. For example, we can highlight all commercial and residential buildings to see patterns across different neighborhoods in a city.

Highlighting all office and commercial buildings in green using Cesium Stories.

Cesium OSM Buildings is derived from the well-known community-driven mapping project OpenStreetMap. This means anyone can improve the dataset! If you’ve ever contributed, heartfelt thanks!

Please try out the data and let us know what you think. We look forward to your buildings!

Author: Kevin Ring Original link: https://cesium.com/blog/2020/06/01/cesium-osm-buildings/ Comment: Quite powerful, let’s get started. But it requires an internet connection.

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