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Yes, you can load practically any dataset into Cesium, so you are not locked into their paid service and can self host. You might have to do a format conversion
by modeless 6y ago
Yes, you can load practically any dataset into Cesium, so you are not locked into their paid service and can self host. You might have to do a format conversion. I do think Ion is a nice service, and 3D globe data is going to be expensive no matter who you license it from.
I'm using the web version of Cesium in https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ and I'm self hosting everything including the globe imagery, for free. (I don't need high resolution imagery for the whole globe because I only show a zoomed out view, but you could store and serve it all yourself in principle).
In addition to the nice 3D graphics I'm also using a bunch of Cesium functions for the actual satellite visibility calculations. It's a great library.
- darkwater 6y ago> https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ Wow, super nice website, gonna use it to try to see some satellites from now on! Thanks for creating and sharing it.
- jjwiseman 6y agoWow, I love your site! It makes such a big difference when you give the situated view of what the object in the sky will look like from my point of view, using Street View imagery. Totally raises the bar for any site giving you visibility predictions.
- jjwiseman 6y agoI'm sure that required a lot of fiddly details to get right, but it pays off hugely. And I can imagine it's the kind of thing that lots of people wouldn't even think of as important. Well done!