A QGIS plugin for creating CZML files

• (If downloaded the latest version from GitHub: Copy the downloaded folder to your QGIS Python plugin folder (typically {your user folder}/.qgis2/python/plugins). sampleData and sampleViewer folders are not needed there. )
• (Re-)start QGIS
• In QGIS, go to Plugin Manager (remember to check "Show also experimental plugins"), find CZML Generator and enable it.
• The CZML Generator menu appears in the Web menu

You can find some sample data to start with in the folder sampleData

There is a sample Cesium viewer in sampleViewer folder.

• Copy it to your webserver
• Open the chart.html file in a text editor
• If you have a Bing key, insert it at the appropriate place
• Change the CZML data file name and the legend file name where indicated in the code
• Load the document in a browser

Use this function to create prism maps with or without temporal animation based on any polygon layers currently opened in QGIS

Animated visualization of attribute change in time by placing 3D models whose sizes change with the corresponding attribute value.

Creates raised connector arcs from a line layer. Useful for visualizing connections between a set of points

Creates 3D Pie charts at feature centroids

Gede, M.: Using Cesium for 3D Thematic Visualisations on the Web, Proc. Int. Cartogr. Assoc., 1, 45, https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-1-45-2018, 2018.