Easy-to-Use WebGIS Platform

A Short Review of WebGIS in 2020

Create and Share GIS Data in 3D without coding

Joe T. Santhanavanich
5 min readApr 15, 2020

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illustration by Chaeyun Kim

First, let’s talk about the web GIS platform. Currently, there are several platforms that able you to visualize your data on the 2D map or the 3D Earth-like through the web. You do not need to install the GIS program anymore as you can freely do several tasks directly on the web. This article will cover examples and features of these three following platforms

  • Google Earth Web
  • ArcGIS Platform
  • Cesium

Google Earth Web

The Google Earth Web is a web-based of Google Earth. If you want to visualize 3D buildings in the cities or create a storytelling tour and see the surrounding anywhere on the earth in 3D, this is the app for you. It also lets you easily create and explore stories and places around the world. The below image shows how it looks in the city of Stuttgart.

Here is the screenshot of Google Earth Web

Well, very impressive..!

The first time I saw this a year ago made me very surprised by the 3D Mesh Model map quality that…

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Joe T. Santhanavanich
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