From 5268eb6d4417c6110abed35e8fe38d6f0641647a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ggetz Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 14:57:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] CRS tweak --- README.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 792cf8d4e..2c3bbc757 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -222,7 +222,9 @@ All angles are in radians. ## Coordinate reference system (CRS) -3D Tiles uses a right-handed Cartesian coordinate system; that is, the cross product of _x_ and _y_ yields _z_. 3D Tiles defines the _z_ axis as up for local Cartesian coordinate systems. An additional [tile transform](#tile-transform) may be applied to transform a tile's local coordinate system to the parent tile's coordinate system. A tileset's global coordinate system will often be [WGS 84 coordinates](http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/publications/tr8350.2/wgs84fin.pdf), but it doesn't have to be, e.g., a power plant may be defined fully in its local coordinate system for use with a modeling tool without a geospatial context. +3D Tiles uses a right-handed Cartesian coordinate system; that is, the cross product of _x_ and _y_ yields _z_. 3D Tiles defines the _z_ axis as up for local Cartesian coordinate systems. An additional [tile transform](#tile-transform) may be applied to transform a tile's local coordinate system to the parent tile's coordinate system. + +A tileset's global coordinate system will often be geodetic coordinates (latitude, longitude, height) in the WGS 84 datum as defined in [EPSG 4326](http://nsidc.org/data/atlas/epsg_4326.html). However, it doesn't have to be, e.g., a power plant may be defined fully in its local coordinate system for use with a modeling tool without a geospatial context. Some tile content types such as [Batched 3D Model](TileFormats/Batched3DModel/README.md) and [Instanced 3D Model](TileFormats/Instanced3DModel/README.md) embed glTF. The [glTF specification](https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/tree/master/specification/2.0#coordinate-system-and-units) defines a right-handed coordinate system with the _y_ axis as up. For consistency with the _z_-up coordinate system of 3D Tiles, embedded glTFs may instead use the [`CESIUM_z_up` glTF extension](TODO).