The deck.gl layer catalog is organized into a couple of sections.

All deck.gl layers inherit from the Layer base class and its props are available to all layers unless otherwise documented.

The Core Layers are a group of geospatial visualization focused layers, intended to represent a small set of widely applicable data visualization building blocks.

The core layers are the most stable and supported deck.gl layers.

Some notable features of the core deck.gl layers

• 64-bit Mode Most core Layers support a 64 bit mode that can be used to achieve higher precision, particularly under high zoom levels (> 1.000.000x) at the cost of sacrificing some performance and memory. Layers that have a 64 bit counterpart are marked with a "64-bit" tag.
• Extrusions Some of the Core layers support extrusions and heights (aka "elevations") enabling applications to show a "2.5D" view of their data when using the map in perspective mode. The layers that support extrusions are marked with an "Extrusion" tag.

These are layers from an older releases that now have better counterparts. They should not be used in new applications as they may be removed in future deck.gl releases.

deck.gl provides a number of sample layers in the examples folders intended to illustrate various ideas and approaches to how layers can be designed. These layers sometimes have documentation in the example code, but they are not listed here in the official documentation.

To use one of the sample layers an application simply needs to copy it into its own source tree. This is necessary because these layers are not included in the deck.gl distribution (i.e. they are not exported by deck.gl).