Can I use Google’s new Photorealistic 3D Tiles with mapboxgl.js?

[ovidiucp]

Motivation

The imagery in the new Photorealistic 3D Tiles has some impressive resolution. Google says their tiles can be used with CesiumJS or deck.gl, and that they are in the the OGC standard glTF format.

Is it possible to use their tiles for terrain as an alternative to Mapbox’s? If so, how?

[jo-chemla]

The standard used by Google to publish its 3D datasets is OGC 3D Tiles (previously engineered by Cesium, and only every tile is a glTF asset). The ways to ingest 3D-tiles on the web are through:

• deck.gl Tile3D Layer which can be integrated with a mapbox map through react-map-gl
• CesiumJS (or any cesium-plugin for non-web 3D render/game engines)
• Some extensions on top of threejs like NASA-AMMOS/3DTilesRendererJS or nytimes/three-loader-3dtiles
• iTowns or giro3d from IGN france, oslandia & co
• Can be ingested via other engines with the help of loaders.gl 3D-tiles

Also have a look at this pka/awesome-3d-tiles list. So no direct mapbox integration, but the first bullet should be what you are looking for.