Procedural GL JS is a library for creating 3D map experiences on the web, written in JavaScript and WebGL. It is built on top of THREE.js.
It provides an easy-to-use, but powerful framework to allow beautiful landscapes of the outdoors to be embedded into web pages. It loads super-fast and is optimized for mobile devices.
Demo | Docs | Overlay playground | Elevation data | Source
- Novel GPU powered level-of-detail system gives butter-smooth rendering, including on mobile
- Stream in standard raster imagery tiles. Supports map tiles from a variety of providers
- Easily include elevation data for 3D terrain
- Powerful overlay capabilities. Draw crisp markers and lines
- Well-thought-out API, complex applications can be built without needing to deal with 3D concepts
- Great UX and intuitive controls, mouse-based on desktop & touch-based on mobile
- Tiny filesize means library is parsed fast. Package size is less than THREE.js thanks to code stripping
npm install procedural-gl
import Procedural from 'procedural-gl';
// Choose a DOM element into which the library should render
const container = document.getElementById( 'container' );
// Configure datasources
const datasource = {
provider: 'maptiler',
// To get a free key, use https://cloud.maptiler.com/account/?ref=procedural
apiKey: 'GET_AN_API_KEY_FROM_MAPTILER'
};
// Initialize library and optionally add UI controls
Procedural.init( { container, datasource } );
Procedural.setRotationControlVisible( true );
// Load real-world location
const montBlanc = { latitude: 45.8326364, longitude: 6.8564201 };
Procedural.displayLocation( montBlanc );For detailed instructions for setting up the datasource, see this page in the wiki
Procedural GL JS is licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0.