Author(s)

Kang Kuk^*, Woo Kyongil, Yun Cholnam, Kim Wonsok

Institute of Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Academy of Science, Pyonyang, The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Essentially, CesiumJS—which can be accessed through the link, http://cesiumjs.org, is an open-source JavaScript library for creating virtual globe environment in performance effective, high quality of rendering, precision, and user friendly. It is a wonderful tool for 3D-themed visualizations of earth. CesiumJS has a number of data sources, but none of them supports vector tile format. This article explains how to visualize Mapbox vector tiles in a CesiumJS virtual globe environment. CartoDB/BigQuery hosts vector tiles, and a process for producing vector tiles from massive vector data using the BigQuery tiler of CartoDB has been provided.

Mapbox, 3D Visualization, BigQuery, CartoDB, Virtual Earth

Kuk, K. , Kyongil, W. , Cholnam, Y. and Wonsok, K. (2023) Visualization of Vector Tiles on CesiumJS Virtual Globe. Journal of Geographic Information System, 15, 515-523. doi: 10.4236/jgis.2023.155025.