GL Surfaces playground
Give the map's water, glaciers, forests, fields, sand, mud, paving and roads living textures, and tune their look live
Lake Geneva ripples and mirrors the sky, and the land around it takes on grass, crowns, fields and asphalt in the style’s own colours.
new GLSurfaces(map)textures the style’s land cover, built-up ground, water and roads, under its labels and buildings.glSurfacesKnobCataloguebuilds the controls, seasons included; every season shades the map’s foundation colours.effectKnobCatalogueadds the map-effects plugin’s bloom, fog or depth of field over the textured map, one section per effect.view.lightsets one light for the whole map, which the textures and the 3D buildings share.
Related examples
Bloom playground
Every bloom knob on one panel, including the scope that decides which part of the map is allowed to glow.
Playground
Traffic
Map Style
Plugins
Web
Cinematic city fly-by
Fly like a bird through eight cities and over five landscapes, banking round their landmarks and down their avenues, in twenty looks with skies, typefaces and effects of their own
Playground
Terrain and 3D
Map Style
Plugins
Web
Cinematic city orbit
Circle the Empire State Building through Midtown in eight looks, each mixing 3D buildings, bloom, depth of field and a map theme
Playground
Terrain and 3D
Map Style
Plugins
Web
Map Chat Agent
Ask a chat beside the map for places, routes or traffic, and watch the map search, draw and frame the answer
Playground
AI
Search and Geocoding
Places and POIs
Map Style
Base Map
Geometry
Traffic
Routing
Plugins
Web
React