Adding Custom Data

Native Mapbox Layers

You can inject data and mapbox native layers using the Source and Layer components:

import * as React from 'react';
import Map, {Source, Layer} from 'react-map-gl';
import type {CircleLayer} from 'react-map-gl';
import type {FeatureCollection} from 'geojson';

const geojson: FeatureCollection = {
  type: 'FeatureCollection',
  features: [
    {type: 'Feature', geometry: {type: 'Point', coordinates: [-122.4, 37.8]}}
  ]
};

const layerStyle: CircleLayer = {
  id: 'point',
  type: 'circle',
  paint: {
    'circle-radius': 10,
    'circle-color': '#007cbf'
  }
};

function App() {
  return (
    <Map
      initialViewState={{
        longitude: -122.45,
        latitude: 37.78,
        zoom: 14
      }}>
      <Source id="my-data" type="geojson" data={geojson}>
        <Layer {...layerStyle} />
      </Source>
    </Map>
  );
}

For details about data sources and layer configuration, check out the Mapbox style specification.

For dynamically updating data sources and layers, check out the GeoJSON and GeoJSON animation examples.

Custom Overlays

You can implement a custom HTML or SVG overlay on top of the map that redraws whenever the camera changes. By calling map.project() you can adjust the DOM or CSS properties so that the customly-drawn features are always aligned with the map. See a full example here.

Other vis.gl Libraries

For more feature rich and performant data visualization overlay use cases, you may consider using other visualization libraries. react-map-gl is part of the vis.gl ecosystem, a suite of high-performance data visualization tools for the Web.

• deck.gl - WebGL-powered framework for the visualization of large datasets.
• loaders.gl - loaders for file formats focused on visualization of big data, including point clouds, 3D geometries, images, geospatial formats as well as tabular data.
• nebula.gl - 3D-enabled GeoJSON editing based on deck.gl and React.