{"id":80,"date":"2018-09-25T17:11:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T17:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms-test1.ssec.wisc.edu\/realearth\/?p=80"},"modified":"2018-11-02T14:30:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:30:36","slug":"switching-to-leaflet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/realearth\/switching-to-leaflet\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching to Leaflet and Cesium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we developed RealEarth in 2011, the most mature API for web mapping was Google.\u00a0 It has served us well for many years.\u00a0 However, within the Google Maps context we encountered limitations with implementing new choices of projections (other than web-Mercator).\u00a0 We also experienced interface disruptions as terms of use and the requirement of API keys became more stringent.\u00a0 Therefore we are on the verge of switching to the <a href=\"https:\/\/leafletjs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leaflet<\/a> API for the &#8220;flat map&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/cesiumjs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cesium<\/a> for new globe and polar views.\u00a0 This work has been underdevelopment for sometime, but will soon go live.\u00a0 We expect some things to break and some things to improve.\u00a0 Please <a href=\"mailto:realearth@ssec.wisc.edu\">let us know<\/a> how it affects your use of the RealEarth browser experience.\u00a0 Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we developed RealEarth in 2011, the most mature API for web mapping was Google.\u00a0 It has served us well for many years.\u00a0 However, within the Google Maps context we encountered limitations with implementing new choices of projections (other than web-Mercator).\u00a0 We also experienced interface disruptions as terms of use and the requirement of API [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/realearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/realearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/realearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/realearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/realearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/realearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/realearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/realearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/realearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/realearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/realearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}