Billboard (Cesium)

The layer type "Billboard (Cesium)", contains billboards for display in PlexMap 3D.

Billboards are, by definition, textured rectangles used in 3D computer graphics to simplify models. They are created by planar projection of the model to be simplified onto a rectangle.

Since this projection breaks down a model that may consist of several thousand polygons to just 2 polygons needed to represent the rectangle, billboards are of interest in the context of PlexMap 3D for performance-optimized web rendering of 3D symbols.

In PlexMap, billboards consist of the simplest possible symbol and a geo-coordinate at which the symbol is to be displayed. You can create billboards in the PlexMap Switchboard using the Billboards from 2D Objects function.