Update Cesium Viewer to work with 3D Tiles

[OmarShehata]

The Cesium Viewer app is a pretty awesome example of what you can do with a few bells and whistles in CesiumJS, but it's also pretty useful as a standalone app in itself. For example, you can find any view of any data on the Earth and save and share that just by sharing the link.

We can do a few more small things that I think will have a big impact in making it easier to work with 3D Tiles.

• [ ] Change the query parameters to hash parameters.
  • This will allow us to use the URL to update the state of the app without having to refresh. This is cool because it lets you bookmark views or share/change views without having to reload everything.
• [ ] Change camera.setView to camera.flyTo after the first load.
  • This looks amazing when you have a few views bookmarked that you're flying between with a click of a button.
• [ ] Add token parameter that takes an ion token.
• [ ] Add id parameter that takes an array of ion asset IDs.

With just this, you could upload some massive data to ion, have a link like the "open in Sandcastle" except open it in the viewer app, and you'd instantly have a published viewer app you can actually use yourself for any analysis, embed on your website, share with collaborators etc.

You could also use this to pretty easily view multiple tilesets in the same view, or easily compare the same view in two different tilesets by swapping out the id.

One more thing that would be incredibly useful is:

• [ ] A "% loaded" in the bottom right to tell you how many tiles still need to load.
  • I often look at a scene, and I'm not sure if it's finished loading yet, if it's frozen etc.
  • Could become a widget you can add, a Sandcastle example, or just be in the viewer app. The globe and 3D Tiles already have ways of reporting progress, so this would just be hooking into that.

This is all prototyped in this Glitch app:

https://glitch.com/edit/#!/cesium-viewer?path=README.md:1:0

[OmarShehata]

Another issue here is that the 3D Tiles inspector is really valuable when exploring 3D Tiles, but there's no good way to show both the "Cesium Inspector" and the "3D Tiles" inspector together.

[jony89]

Change the query parameters to hash parameters. This will allow us to use the URL to update the state of the app without having to refresh. This is cool because it lets you bookmark views or share/change views without having to reload everything.

This is not needed this days. google .pushState