[R-sig-Geo] WebGL Earth

[Tim Appelhans]

Richard,

great idea! We have a 'Hello World' Cesium htmlwidget which has never 
seen any further progress.

https://github.com/environmentalinformatics-marburg/cesium

May I ask what the added value of webglearth over leaflet is (apart from 
a fancy spinning globe)? Cesium has native space-time support so would 
really add something that isn't (yet) accessible from R. Would you 
consider taking on a grander challenge working on cesium implementation? 
If so, we could move the above repo to r-spatial at github and trun it 
into a group effort.

Anyway, just some thoughts...

Tim


On 18.04.2017 03:50, Richard Barnes wrote:
> I'm thinking about cobbling together a little package to show data in
> WebGL Earth (http://www.webglearth.org/), similar to Leaflet for R
> (https://rstudio.github.io/leaflet/).
>
> Just wanted to inquire as to whether anyone's already built such a thing
> or at work on it?
>
> Best regards,
> Richard
>
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