OpenWebGlobe WebViewer

With OpenWebGlobe you can create your own virtual globe applications.

The WebViewer is a port of the OpenWebGlobe SDK to Javascript/WebGL.

OpenWebGlobe is created by the Geomatics Engineering departement at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland.

Getting started

WebViewer requires a modern web browser that supports WebGL. You can check if your browser supports WebGL here: https://get.webgl.org/

Once you have a suitable browser, visit source/demos/02_WorldDemo/demo.html to see a demonstration.

Building WebViewer

WebViewer is compiled with Google's Closure Compiler and uses Google's Closure Library. The compiler produces an optimized, minified Javascript file containing all the WebViewer code.

Windows

1. Install Python if you don't have it already. You can get python at http://www.python.org/ You also need Java installed for the closure compiler. On windows you may have to adjust the Python Path in "scripts/setup.bat".

2. Go into the scripts directory and start "download_external.py". This will download all required external files.

Linux, MacOS X

Development under Linux and MacOS is quite easy: Just go into the "scripts" directory and start make. This builds the latest version and downloads all dependencies.

CORS - Cross Origin Resource Sharing

For security reasons CORS must be used when downloading textures. During development this can be annoying. When using Firefox you can disable "security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy" in about:config and you can install the addon "Force CORS" from here: Force CORS AddOn

License

OpenWebGlobe is

Copyright (c) 2010-2015 University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. Institute of Geomatics Engineering.

See the file LICENSE for details.