deck.gl is designed to simplify high-performance, WebGL-based visualization of large data sets. Users can quickly get impressive visual results with minimal effort by composing existing layers, or leverage deck.gl's extensible architecture to address custom needs.
deck.gl maps data (usually an array of JSON objects) into a stack of visual layers - e.g. icons, polygons, texts; and look at them with views: e.g. map, first-person, orthographic.
deck.gl handles a number of challenges out of the box:
Deck.gl is designed to be highly customizable. All layers come with flexible APIs to allow programmatic control of each aspect of the rendering. All core classes such are easily extendable by the users to address custom use cases.
<script src="https://unpkg.com/deck.gl@latest/dist.min.js"></script>
npm install deck.gl
pip install pydeck
Pull requests and bug reports are welcome, and all of deck.gl's roadmaps and feature planning is done openly on GitHub. Read the developement guidelines to learn about our dev process.
Note that once your PR is about to be merged, you will be asked to register as a contributor by filling in a short form.
Data sources are listed in each example.