Cesium

Cesium Assets API

Whether you have imagery, terrain, 3D buildings, point clouds, photogrammetry, or one of the many other types of data we support, ion creates what we refer to as an asset. There are seven types of assets: | Value | Description | | - | - | | 3DTILES | A [3D Tiles](https://github.com/CesiumGS/3d-tiles) tileset | | GLTF | A [glTF](https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/tree/master/specification/2.0) model | | IMAGERY | An TMS and WMTS compatible imagery layer | | TERRAIN | A [quantized-mesh-1.0](https://github.com/CesiumGS/quantized-mesh) terrain tileset | | CZML | A [CZML](https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/czml-writer/wiki/CZML-Guide) dataset | | KML | A [KML](https://developers.google.com/kml) or KMZ dataset | | GEOJSON | A [GeoJSON](https://geojson.org/) dataset | The Assets API provides a mechanism to discover, create, and stream these assets into your own applications.

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 10

GET /v1/assets List assets #

POST /v1/assets Create a new asset #

POST /v1/assets/imodel Import an iModel #

GET /v1/coordinate-reference-system Search coordinate reference systems #

GET /v1/assets/{assetId} Get info about an asset #

PATCH /v1/assets/{assetId} Modify asset info #

DELETE /v1/assets/{assetId} Delete an asset #

PUT /v1/assets/{assetId}/labels Add labels to an asset #

DELETE /v1/assets/{assetId}/labels Remove labels from an asset #

GET /v1/assets/{assetId}/endpoint Access tiles #

Specifications

https://artifacts.apis.io/cesium/openapi/cesium-assets-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

https://artifacts.apis.io/cesium/json-schema/cesium-asset-endpoint-schema.json

https://artifacts.apis.io/cesium/json-schema/cesium-asset-metadata-schema.json

https://artifacts.apis.io/cesium/json-schema/cesium-token-metadata-schema.json

https://artifacts.apis.io/cesium/json-schema/cesium-token-metadata-default-token-schema.json

https://artifacts.apis.io/cesium/json-schema/cesium-external-asset-endpoint-schema.json

https://artifacts.apis.io/cesium/json-schema/cesium-archive-metadata2-schema.json

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Cesium ion Assets API
  version: v1
  description: '# Overview


    The Cesium ion REST API allows you to leverage ion''s powerful tiling and streaming capabilities from your own applications and workflows.'
servers:
- url: https://api.cesium.com
  description: Cesium ion API Server
security:
- OAuth2: []
tags:


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# Full source: https://artifacts.apis.io/cesium/openapi/cesium-assets-api-openapi.yml