Swissgeol viewer

A Geology 3D viewer

Swissgeol is the new geology 3D viewer of Swisstopo, available at https://viewer.swissgeol.ch and developed by Camptocamp. It is Open Source and based on the Open Source CesiumJS 3D library.

You are welcome to use and adapt this software for your own uses; see LICENSE. If you want to get started off rapidly, Camptocamp offers support and expertise to meet your needs rapidly.

Your own version: getting started

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/swissgeol/ngm.git

Linux and Mac OS X

Install node.js and npm
See instructions at https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager

Start frontend

From the root directory change to the ui-dirrectory

cd ui

Install dependencies

npm install

start development server

npm start

open http://localhost:8000

Start backend api

Install Docker
See instructions at https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/

Install rust and cargo
See instructions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/getting-started/installation.html

Start the api and application

make run

open http://localhost:8000

Developing/deploying the Swisstopo version

See DEVELOPING.md. See DEPLOY_VIEWER.md. See DEPLOY_ABBREVIATOR.md.

URL Parameters

A few URL parameters will modify the behavior of the viewer:

• noLimit disable the navigation limits (sphere and lava). Use noLimit=false to enforce limits on local dev.
• ionAssetIds display some additional Cesium ION 3dtilesets (coma separated list of CesiumIon ids)
• ionToken optional token to access Cesium ION 3dtilesets
• initialScreenSpaceError define the visual quality (default: 10000)
• maximumScreenSpaceError define the visual quality (default: 2.0 except for localhost which is 20.0)
• ownterrain=false disables the terrain (mind that their is only data in the swissrectangle) ownterrain=cli_ticino_0.5m' use the 0.5m terrain generated using Cesium CLI (for testing only - only around Ticino) ownterrain=cli_walensee_0.5m' use the 0.5m terrain generated using Cesium CLI (for testing only - only around Walensee)
• swissrectangle=false do not restrict rendering to the Swiss rectangle
• norequestrendermode disable the resource optimizations (will use 100% CPU)
• inspector display the Cesium Inspector widget
• inspector_wireframe enable the wireframe mode
• date a date to be used for illumination (default to "2018-06-21T10:00:00.000Z")
• light a white light source from infinity (ex: 1-2-0-1000 will have direction (1, 2, 0) and intensity 1000)
• cesiumToolbar display configuration panel for fog, ambient, background color and terrain underground color

Notes

Keyboard layout made with keyboard-layout-editor and json to import