zarr-gl

Custom WebGL Zarr layer for Mapbox and Maplibre.

This library allows you to load Zarr data into a Mapbox GL JS or Maplibre GL JS map.

Takes inspiration from carbonplan/maps, but with two differences:

1. A library, rather than a framework, so you can use it how you like.
2. Adds a Custom Layer to Mapbox's GL context, rather than creating a whole separate one. Allows you to mix and match with Map styles, adjust layer ordering etc.

You can see a demo at: rainy.rdrn.me.

Quickstart

npm install zarr-gl

You'll need to prepare the data using carbonplan/ndpyramid. Maybe one day this won't be necessary, but re-projecting arrays on the fly isn't cheap. There's a basic data preparation example at example/prep.py.

import { ZarrLayer } from "zarr-gl";
// or skip the npm install and just do this:
// import { ZarrLayer } from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/+esm";

const map = new mapboxgl.Map({
  container: "map",
  style: "mapbox://styles/mapbox/standard",
  projection: "mercator",
});

const layer = new ZarrLayer({
  id: "myZarrLayer",
  source: "https://example.com/path/to/my.zarr",
  variable: "precip",
  colormap: [[200, 10, 50], [30, 40, 30], [50, 10, 200]],
  vmin: 0,
  vmax: 100,
  opacity: 0.8,
  map,
});
map.addLayer(layer);

Roadmap

• [x] Support a selector option to index into additional dimensions. Currently only 2D datasets are supported.
• [ ] Handle chunk sizes other than 128x128.
• [ ] Appropriately handle non-float32 data.
• [ ] Add more lifecycle events.

Examples

1. There is a very basic example (including data prep) in the example directory.
2. There's also a more complex React app inside demo and viewable at rainy.rdrn.me.

Contributing

I'd love input on use-cases, ideas, missing features etc. Even better if they come with code.