Offline Guide

By default, Cesium uses several external data sources which require internet access at runtime, though none of these dependencies are required. This guide lists these external sources and how to configure Cesium to work in a fully offline (no internet access) environment.

Imagery

The default imagery provider in Cesium is Bing Maps. This provider loads data from dev.virtualearth.net as well as several other tile servers that are subdomains of virtualearth.net. To use another provider, pass it into the constructor for the Viewer widget.

If you have an imagery server on your local network (e.g. WMS, ArcGIS, Google Earth Enterprise), you can configure Cesium to use that. Otherwise, Cesium ships with a low-resolution set of images from Natural Earth II in Assets/Textures/NaturalEarthII, or you can download a higher-resolution tileset from the cesium-assets repository.

By default, the BaseLayerPicker includes options for several sample online imagery and terrain sources. In an offline application, you should either disable that widget completely, by passing baseLayerPicker : false to the Viewer widget, or use the imageryProviderViewModels and terrainProviderViewModels options to configure the sources that will be available in your offline application.

Geocoder

The Geocoder widget, which allows flying to addresses and landmarks, uses the Bing Maps Locations API at dev.virtualearth.net. In your offline application, you should disable this functionality by passing geocoder : false to the Viewer constructor.

Example

This example shows how to configure Cesium to avoid use of online data sources.

var viewer = new Cesium.Viewer('cesiumContainer', {
  imageryProvider : Cesium.createTileMapServiceImageryProvider({
    url : Cesium.buildModuleUrl('Assets/Textures/NaturalEarthII')
  }),
  baseLayerPicker : false,
  geocoder : false
});