GlobeView & TerrainExtension supoort

[charlieforward9]

Ive been making leaps on these topics in pure deck.gl, and am curious about status on the difficult task of draping data on the terrain.

• Is terrain-clamping currently only supported on the Google Maps Platform API hooks?
• How could we simplify this to work with the TerrainExtension out of the box?

Example of the built in support I am looking for for data layers on Google Photorealistic Tiles: https://visgl.github.io/deck.gl-community/examples/editable-layers/3d-tiles (not just editable)

[usefulthink]

This is an interesting topic I'd love to explore a bit more. As I wrote elsewhere, there's currently no way to add dynamic content to the Google renderer besides the polygon/polyline/model/marker elements available in the API.

We might be able to synchronize the globe viewParams from deck.gl with those used in gmp-map-3d, but I don't think there's any information publicly available on the details of the used camera model.

[charlieforward9]

able to synchronize the globe viewParams from deck.gl

I have added a handful of new, niche interaction methods and having a industry standard world controller model would help control the scope greatly.

Still a beginner in the GPU programming space, but happy to jump into a sprint to make some of these things happen with you over the coming weeks with some of your seasoned guidance.

This would be an incredible advancement for my use case and the community.