Roadmap

🗺️Roadmap

Note: The Roadmap is not a contractual document and is subject to frequent changes. Priorities evolve and it is always difficult to anticipate the complexity of a change before implementing it.

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📅 Planned

2026 - S2

Features

• DTM rendering using hypsometric coloring
• Multiple DTM support
• WebGPU support
• Labels displayed as 3D objects
• Improved display priority management
• Migration to TypeScript (improved maintainability and easier onboarding)
• Oriented images support through Panoramax
• Extrusion of lines

Community & Governance

Community-driven product

• Changes to the governance rules to facilitate contribution
• Revision of the Code of Conduct

2027

(subject to changes)

• Improved transitions between Levels of Detail (LOD)
• Vector object rendering optimization
• Subsurface DTM support
• Optimization of examples and documentation for AI code generation assistants
• Performance analysis and improvement

⏳Backlog

(subject to changes)

• On the fly raster reprojection
• Standalone iTowns deployment

Feel free to propose an idea or a new feature

✅ Shipped

2026 - S1

• Examples and demos inprovement
• Support for point cloud datasets in EPT, COPC, and VPC formats (e.g. LiDAR HD)
• Support for COG/GeoTIFF as an elevation data source (e.g. using LiDAR HD Digital Terrain Models for terrain representation)
• Atmospheric rendering
• Sun position simulation and terrain/object shading
• Dynamic style update
• Extrusion of polygons

2025

• 3D tiles support improvement, including 3D Tiles 1.1
• Initial modularization of the codebase (simplifying installation and adoption)
• Virtual Reality (VR) support