WIP add quantized mesh loader to terrain layer #5061
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Background
The Quantized Mesh loader was added in loaders.gl 2.2, which parses the Quantized Mesh format.
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Web Mercator Projection only
Quantized Mesh is often tiled in the EPSG: 4326 projection, which is incompatible with the current TileLayer, which only accepts Web Mercator/OSM indexing.
Mesh orientation
This is an issue I've struggled with before. Without changing the existing code when I use quantized mesh I see the images flipped:
I might need to check that I'm serving the mesh according to the spec
cc @davidbrochart, #4531