Supported Features

Guildelines to maintain this list of iTowns features:

• Checked items list supported features.
• The development of unchecked items is under discussion.
  • use indentation to list sub-features.
• Please add the relevant ticket number(s) next to each item.
• Please add links to demos/examples illustrating each feature.

Features

Visualization

• Heterogeneous data visualization ( DEM, PointClouds, raster, vector…)
• Camera navigation
  • Free camera movement : rotate, pan
  • Zoom in / Zoom out
  • Smooth transitions
  • Keyboard navigation
• Globe mode
• Planar mode
• Stereographic view ( parallax, anaglyph, stereo)
• Post-processing capabilities
• On-the-fly data loading
• LOD management
• Point Cloud visualization
  • Eye-dome lighting
  • Point Cloud smart occlusion management ( hide points behind guessed surfaces)
• Terrain Clamping for Vector data
• Terrain exaggeration
• Horizon box
• Sun simulation

UI & Widgets

• Dat menu widgets
• Picking tool
• Distance measurements tool
• Surface measurements tool
• Volume measurements tool
• Annotations

Packaging and Debug

• Full build system
• NPM packages
• Debug tools : charts, events debugging, bounding boxes, wireframe mode
• Available in JSFiddle (e.g. a globe example)

Supported protocols and formats

TileSets and protocols

• 3DTiles tilesets (#185)
• 3DTiles Composite .cmpt
• Potree index
• Drag and dropped local file (#705)

2D Rasters

• WMTS
  • GetCapabilities
• WMS
  • GetCapabilities (#594)
• WFS
  • GetCapabilities
• TMS
  • GetCapabilities

2D Vector data

• WFS
  • GetCapabilities
• Mapbox Vector Tiles
• Label/Text/Symbol (Q1 2020)
• GPX (XML format for GPS tracks)
• GeoJSON
• SHP
• 3DTiles Vector data .vctr

3D Objects and meshes

• 3DTiles Batched 3D Model .b3dm
• 3DTiles Instanced 3D Model .i3dm
• formats supported by Three.js ( List of loaders )
  • OBJ
  • Collada
  • GLTF1
  • GLTF2
  • PRWM
  • TGA
  • SVG
  • PDB
  • PCD
  • Babylon
  • VTK
  • VRML
  • STL
  • DRACO
  • EXR
  • FBX
  • GCode
  • KMZ
• Quantized Mesh terrain

Point Clouds

• 3D Tiles Point Cloud .pnts
• Potree formats
  • BIN
  • CIN
• LOPoCS PointCloud Streaming
• LAZ
• PLY

Immersive view

• Panorama ( 360° ) images
• Projective texturing / Oriented images

Others

Symbolizers

• Rasterization of 2D features into imagery layers
• Visualisation of 2D features as 3D geometries
• 3D Tiles Declarative styling