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by thrway_blue123 1154 days ago
Amazing piece of data visualization. I work with deck.gl at my day job, and it's really cool to see how far people can push it.

I have a random question - what layer are you using to draw the country borders on the base map? It really stands out, and helps tie the styling together.
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robhawkes 1154 days ago
Thanks! All the Deck.gl parts are thanks to the work by Jan and WeatherLayers.

The countries layer is using this dataset from MapTiler [1] which is also the service I'm using for all the base maps and vector tile data. I then used interleaved layers [2] in Deck.gl / MapLibre to place the wind layers behind the country outlines.

[1] https://www.maptiler.com/countries/ [2] https://deck.gl/gallery/mapbox-layer

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zakjan 1153 days ago
Glad to see another deck.gl user!

deck.gl focuses on vector data, whereas WeatherLayers GL adds raster capabilities. Actually, WeatherLayers GL is mostly custom WebGL shaders that could be implemented outside of deck.gl as well. The major reason why deck.gl is used is that it serves as an integration layer for popular map libraries. I've written deck.gl-leaflet [1] plugin myself.

[1] https://github.com/zakjan/deck.gl-leaflet

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