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A comment on Melown – 3D mapping implementation in JS, smooth and silent.

Re:Melown – 3D mapping implementation in JS, smooth and silent by ovidiup on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:26PM (#13562468)
For Jollyturns (https://jollyturns.com) I'd like to overlay my users' ski tracks data, as well as various ski resort objects (lifts, runs etc) on a 3D Earth, to be displayed inside a browser.

Why would I use Melown instead of CesiumJS (https://cesiumjs.org/)? Especially since the latter appears to be free?

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Re:Melown – 3D mapping implementation in JS, smooth and silent by harwoodr on Friday February 03, 2017 @03:49PM (#13563172)
It looks like their hosted solution has a cost - but the software is open source.
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Re:Melown – 3D mapping implementation in JS, smooth and silent by tomslavkovsky on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:49PM (#13563626)
Cesium will not work for large datasets and generaly it's very slow, otherwise Melown allows you to upload enourmous large data scales and works fast.
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