Mapbox-gl-shade-layer NPM

mapbox-gl-shade-layer

Terrain, building and object shadow simulator for Mapbox JS and Maplibre JS. Display sunlight and shadow on a map for any date and time of year.

Mapbox Shade Layer demo

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Installation

In a browser:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/mapbox-gl-shade-layer/dist/mapbox-gl-shade-layer.umd.min.js"></script>

Using npm:

npm i mapbox-gl-shade-layer --save

Usage

In a browser:

<script src='https://api.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/v2.8.2/mapbox-gl.js'></script>
<link href='https://api.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/v2.8.2/mapbox-gl.css' rel='stylesheet' />
<script src="https://unpkg.com/mapbox-gl-shade-layer/dist/mapbox-gl-shade-layer.umd.min.js"></script>
<script>
  const map = new mapboxgl.Map({
    // mapboxgl Map options
    // ... 
  });

  map.on('load', () => {
    const shadeMap = new ShadeMap({
      date: new Date(),    // display shadows for current date
      color: '#01112f',    // shade color
      opacity: 0.7,        // opacity of shade color
      apiKey: "XXXXXX",    // obtain from https://shademap.app/about/
      terrainSource: {
        tileSize: 256,       // DEM tile size
        maxZoom: 15,         // Maximum zoom of DEM tile set
        getSourceUrl: ({ x, y, z }) => {
          // return DEM tile url for given x,y,z coordinates
          return `https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/${z}/${x}/${y}.png`
        },
        getElevation: ({ r, g, b, a }) => {
          // return elevation in meters for a given DEM tile pixel
          return (r * 256 + g + b / 256) - 32768
        }
      },
    }).addTo(map);

    // advance shade by 1 hour
    shadeMap.setDate(new Date(Date.now() + 1000 * 60 * 60)); 

    // sometime later...
    // ...remove layer
    shadeMap.remove();
  });
</script>

Using Node.js:

import mapboxgl from 'mapbox-gl/dist/mapbox-gl';
import ShadeMap from 'mapbox-gl-shade-layer';

const map = new mapboxgl.Map({
  // mapboxgl Map options
  // ... 
});

map.on('load', () => {
  const shadeMap = new ShadeMap({
    date: new Date(),    // display shadows for current date
    color: '#01112f',    // shade color
    opacity: 0.7,        // opacity of shade color
    apiKey: "XXXXXX",    // obtain from https://shademap.app/about/
    terrainSource: {
      tileSize: 256,       // DEM tile size
      maxZoom: 15,         // Maximum zoom of DEM tile set
      getSourceUrl: ({ x, y, z }) => {
        // return DEM tile url for given x,y,z coordinates
        return `https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/${z}/${x}/${y}.png`
      },
      getElevation: ({ r, g, b, a }) => {
        // return elevation in meters for a given DEM tile pixel
        return (r * 256 + g + b / 256) - 32768
      }
    },
  }).addTo(map);

  // advance shade by 1 hour
  shadeMap.setDate(new Date(Date.now() + 1000 * 60 * 60)); 

  // sometime later
  // ...remove layer
  shadeMap.remove();
});

Constructor options

Property name	Type	Default value	Comment
`apiKey`	`String`	`''`	See https://shademap.app/about/
`date`	`Date`	`new Date()`	Sun's position in the sky is based on this date
`color`	`String`	`#000`	3 or 6 digit hexadecimal number
`opacity`	`Number`	`0.3`
`terrainSource`	`Object`	See terrainSource	Specify DEM or DSM tiles containing terrain elevation data
`getFeatures`	`Function`	See getFeatures	Returns GeoJSON of objects, such as buildings, to display on the map

terrainSource

An object describing a DEM tile set to use for terrain shadows

Property name	Type	Default value	Comment
`maxZoom`	`Number`	`15`	Max zoom for custom DEM tile source
`tileSize`	`Number`	`256`	Tile size for custom DEM tile source
`sourceUrl`	`Function`	`Returns tile encoding 0m elevation for all locations`	Returns url of DEM tile for given `(x, y, z)` coordinate
`getElevation`	`Function`	`return (r * 256 + g + b / 256) - 32768`	Returns elevation in meters for each (r,g,b,a) pixel of DEM tile

Open Data on AWS for terrainSource

A global dataset providing bare-earth terrain heights, tiled for easy usage and provided on S3 - More info

{
  tileSize: 256,
  maxZoom: 15,
  getSourceUrl: ({x, y, z}) => {
    return `https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/${z}/${x}/${y}.png`;
  },
  getElevation: ({r, g, b, a}) => {
    return (r * 256 + g + b / 256) - 32768;
  }
}

Mapbox Terrain DEM V1 for terrainSource

Mapbox Terrain-DEM v1 is a Mapbox-provided raster tileset is a global elevation layer. This tileset contains raw height values in meters in the Red, Green, and Blue channels of PNG tiles that can be decoded to raw heights in meters - More info

{
  tileSize: 256,
  maxZoom: 15,
  getSourceUrl: ({x, y, z}) => {
    return `https://${subdomain}.tiles.mapbox.com/raster/v1/mapbox.mapbox-terrain-dem-v1/${z}/${x}/${y}.webp?sku=101wuwGrczDtH&access_token=${MAPBOX_API_KEY}`;
  },
  getElevation: ({r, g, b, a}) => {
    return -10000 + ((r * 256 * 256 + g * 256 + b) * .1);
  }
}

getFeatures

Takes map as an argument and returns a GeoJSON collection of features whose shadows will be displayed on the map. Currently only supports Polygon and MultiPolygon.

Extracting buildings from Mapbox vector tiles

getFeatures: (map) => {
  const buildingData = map.querySourceFeatures('composite', { sourceLayer: 'building' }).filter((feature) => {
    return feature.properties && feature.properties.underground !== "true" && feature.properties.render_height
  });
  return buildingData;
},