BaseLayerPicker

BaseLayerPicker with its drop-panel open.

The BaseLayerPicker is a single button widget that displays a panel of available imagery and terrain providers. When imagery is selected, the corresponding imagery layer is created and inserted as the base layer of the imagery collection; removing the existing base. When terrain is selected, it replaces the current terrain provider. Each item in the available providers list contains a name, a representative icon, and a tooltip to display more information when hovered. The list is initially empty, and must be configured before use, as illustrated in the below example.

Throws:

• DeveloperError : Element with id "container" does not exist in the document.

Example:

// In HTML head, include a link to the BaseLayerPicker.css stylesheet,
// and in the body, include: <div id="baseLayerPickerContainer"
//   style="position:absolute;top:24px;right:24px;width:38px;height:38px;"></div>

//Create the list of available providers we would like the user to select from.
//This example uses 3, OpenStreetMap, The Black Marble, and a single, non-streaming world image.
const imageryViewModels = [];
imageryViewModels.push(new Cesium.ProviderViewModel({
     name: "Open\u00adStreet\u00adMap",
     iconUrl: Cesium.buildModuleUrl("Widgets/Images/ImageryProviders/openStreetMap.png"),
     tooltip: "OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable \
map of the world.\nhttp://www.openstreetmap.org",
     creationFunction: function() {
         return new Cesium.OpenStreetMapImageryProvider({
             url: "https://a.tile.openstreetmap.org/"
         });
     }
 }));

 imageryViewModels.push(new Cesium.ProviderViewModel({
     name: "Earth at Night",
     iconUrl: Cesium.buildModuleUrl("Widgets/Images/ImageryProviders/blackMarble.png"),
     tooltip: "The lights of cities and villages trace the outlines of civilization \
in this global view of the Earth at night as seen by NASA/NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite.",
     creationFunction: function() {
         return Cesium.IonImageryProvider.fromAssetId(3812);
     }
 }));

 imageryViewModels.push(new Cesium.ProviderViewModel({
     name: "Natural Earth\u00a0II",
     iconUrl: Cesium.buildModuleUrl("Widgets/Images/ImageryProviders/naturalEarthII.png"),
     tooltip: "Natural Earth II, darkened for contrast.\nhttp://www.naturalearthdata.com/",
     creationFunction: function() {
         return Cesium.TileMapServiceImageryProvider.fromUrl(
             Cesium.buildModuleUrl("Assets/Textures/NaturalEarthII")
         );
     }
 }));

//Create a CesiumWidget without imagery, if you haven't already done so.
const cesiumWidget = new Cesium.CesiumWidget("cesiumContainer", { baseLayer: false });

//Finally, create the baseLayerPicker widget using our view models.
const layers = cesiumWidget.imageryLayers;
const baseLayerPicker = new Cesium.BaseLayerPicker("baseLayerPickerContainer", {
    globe: cesiumWidget.scene.globe,
    imageryProviderViewModels: imageryViewModels
});

See:

• TerrainProvider
• ImageryProvider
• ImageryLayerCollection