Three-Mini-Map

Library to display maps using three.js.

• Generate 3d geometry from elevation tiles.
• Smooth connexion between tiles.
• Choose a map provider who deliver (EPSG:3857) WMTS tiles and add textures to tiles.

Basic example : Marignier

Example Combins tour (switzerland)

Example Grande casse (France)

Installation

if you want to use this library in your three project.

npm install three-mini-map

Examples are located in the examples folder. Each example has defined his own package.json but npm install is not needed. Just execute this command in the root directory. (examples share the same workspace )

If you want to test a Basic Hello World, check the examples/default

git clone https://github.com/lhapaipai/three-mini-map.git
npm install
cd examples/default
npm run dev

Usage

import MiniMapManager from "mini-map-manager";

const miniMapManager = new MiniMapManager();

miniMapManager
  .getMap({
    textureSource: "osm",
    textureZoom: 15,
    center: [6.4751, 46.1024],
    radius: 4,
  })
  .then((map) => {
    let scene = new THREE.Scene();
    scene.add(map);
  });

API

MiniMapManager class

const miniMapManager = new MiniMapManager(options);

Define custom configuration in the options object.

Key	Description	Default Value
elevationSource (string)	map elevation provider.	"terrarium"
elevationSource (obj)	custom elevation provider	-
zScaleFactor	your elevation data is multiplied to this factor	1.6
tileUnits	the dimension of each tile in Three	1.0
debug	show debug infos in your console.	false
dryRun	show tiles to load if you want to download them and then work locally	false
basementHeight	height of the base (in three coords) on which to place the map	0.05

if you want to provide your own elevation provider you can specify configuration in the elevationSource key.

new MiniMapManager({
  elevationSource: {
    url: (z, x, y) =>
      `https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/${z}/${x}/${y}.png`,
    size: 256,
    maxZoom: 15,
  },
});

miniMapManager instance methods

miniMapManager.getMap(mapOptions).then((map) => {
  // map is a THREE.Group instance
});

Define custom configuration in the mapOptions object.

Key	Description	Default Value
textureSource (str)	map provider used to texture the tile.	"osm"
textureSource (obj)	custom map provider	-
tileSegments	nb of segments used per texture tile to build the geometry. must be a power of 2 (16, 32, 64, 128, 256)	32
textureZoom	zoom used to retrieve textures	15
center	array containing position of the map [lng, lat]	[6.4751, 46.1024]
radius	distance in kilometers used to compute the bbox of your map.	1
material	an object with the name and options to apply to each tile. set map to false if you don't want texture (or if you want to preview relief data before download big texture data.)
withTexture	wether or not we add map texture (from textureSource) to the material	true

if you want to provide your own map provider you can specify configuration in the textureSource key.

miniMapManager.getMap({
  textureSource: {
    url: (z, x, y, token) =>
      `https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/mapbox/satellite-v9/tiles/${z}/${x}/${y}?access_token=${token}`,
    size: 256,
    token: "YOUR_TOKEN",
  },
  material: {
    name: "MeshLambertMaterial",
    options: {
      wireframe: false,
    },
  },
});

Issues

I load two times the Three Library...

because all Three.js update are minor version change from major version 0. If you do not install the same version of three as three-mini-map in your project your app will load twice three.js

• Check the version of Three.js installed by three-mini-map and install the same in your project. or
• Import MiniMapManager from the sources

import MiniMapManager from "three-mini-map/src/MiniMapManager";