deck.gl-data

Large static data files used by the websites of various vis.gl repositories, to avoid bloating the code repositories.

Contents

• website - large data files used by deck.gl examples

• images - images used by deck.gl docs

• images/whats-new - small 150 pixel tall images and GIFS used in what's new pages

• images/docs - Larger images and GIFs used inline in docs

• luma.gl - assets for luma.gl

• 3d-tiles - 3D Tilesets

• earth/tectonic-movements/v1 - streamable CC-BY-4.0 tectonic geometry and rotation Parquet snapshots

• earth/geoid/v1 - public-domain NGA EGM96 geoid Parquet node tables

• earth/stac - static STAC discovery catalog with version-pinned Earth dataset downloads

• earth/glaciations/v1 - attributed ice-grid and climate source datasets, Parquet and browser previews

• earth/boundaries/v1/countries - attributed global country boundaries

• earth/hydrography/v1/major-rivers - CC-BY-4.0 global major rivers

• earth/geoid/egm2008/v1 - public-domain EGM2008 grid and lossless Parquet

Attributions / Licenses / Data Sources

EGM96 geoid grids

earth/geoid/v1 contains public-domain NGA EGM96 grids converted from GeographicLib PGM distributions. Dataset licensing, provenance, changes, and checksums are documented beside the files. Conversion code is MIT.

Tectonic reconstruction snapshots

earth/tectonic-movements/v1 contains Cao et al. (2024), revision 2.4, and Müller et al. (2022), revision 1.2.4, converted from their pinned Zenodo datasets. These files retain CC-BY-4.0, with author credits, source links, changes and checksums documented beside each model. They are not covered by this repository’s MIT license. Conversion scripts are original MIT code; pyGPlates is used only as an external offline tool.

LAZ

examples/point-cloud-laz

• https://github.com/PDAL/data/blob/master/liblas/SerpentMound_LAS14_ExtraDims.laz
• The license for the repo is CC-BY-4.0 - https://github.com/PDAL/data/blob/master/LICENSE

3D Tiles

3d-tiles/RoyalExhibitionBuilding

The Royal Exhibition Building World Heritage Site in Melbourne, Australia, captured with the Zebedee handheld mapping system.

• Zebedee 3D Data Collection
• PDF
• Zebdee offers the data publicly under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
• Tiling generously provided by Cesium ion / https://cesium.com/

Geodan Rotterdam tilesets

• Copied from Geodan's 3D tiles example
• Under BSD-3 Clause License

Images

• website/sf-districts.png is modified (removed the sea from original image) from San Francisco districts map.svg.

• website/image-tiles/moon.images is a DeepZoom pyramid of this image of the moon. We use it for non-profit educational purposes from NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University under these terms.

Meshes

• examples/mesh/minicooper.obj is from John Burkardt's data sample collection

Instructions

Compressing Images/GIFs

See ImageMagick convert docx

convert input.gif --resize x300 output.gif