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Tiles Layer

Colored tiles tiling the globe surface

The tiles layer places flat, rectangular tiles tangent to the surface, each with its own three.js material. Each tile is a TileDatum, and materials are described by GlobeMaterialSpec.

from IPython.display import display

from pyglobegl import (
    GlobeConfig,
    GlobeMaterialSpec,
    GlobeWidget,
    TileDatum,
    TilesLayerConfig,
)

tiles = [
    TileDatum(
        lat=0,
        lng=0,
        width=10,
        height=10,
        material=GlobeMaterialSpec(
            type="MeshLambertMaterial",
            params={"color": "#66ccff", "opacity": 0.6, "transparent": True},
        ),
    )
]

config = GlobeConfig(tiles=TilesLayerConfig(tiles_data=tiles))

display(GlobeWidget(config=config))

TileDatum and GlobeMaterialSpec

  • TileDatum — lat, lng, width, height (in degrees), altitude, rotation, and a material.
  • GlobeMaterialSpec — a three.js material type (for example MeshLambertMaterial) and a params dict forwarded to that material's constructor.

From a GeoDataFrame

tiles_from_gdf builds tiles from point geometries with width / height columns. See GeoPandas helpers.