How To Practice A Edifice Tiptop Map

It is at in i trial really slowly to practice a edifice meridian map inward merely a few curt steps using Mapbox.

This calendar week Mapbox announced that their Mapbox Streets v7 vector tiles at in i trial include edifice meridian data. This way that yous tin utilisation Mapbox Studio to mode buildings on Mapbox Streets v7 past times the meridian of the buildings. In other words yous tin color edifice footprints on a map to practice a edifice meridian map.

Here's How

1. Open Mapbox 'Streets' inward Mapbox Studio.
2. Select the 'Building' layer.
3. Under 'Style' alter the color of the edifice footprint.
4. Under 'Select Data' add together 2 filters to define the attain of the edifice heights yous desire to endure this color.

In the screenshot yous tin come across I've chosen to color all buildings amongst a meridian greater than 0 together with less than 6.

That's it! You should at in i trial convey a map that colors all the edifice footprints amongst a meridian nether 6.

But yous why terminate there. You tin besides add together dissimilar colors for buildings amongst dissimilar heights.

5. Duplicate your 'Building' layer.

6. In your 'Building Copy' layer alter the 2 filters yous added higher upwards to 'height is less than 16' together with 'height is greater than 5'.

7. Change the color of the edifice footprint to a dissimilar color than yous chose for buildings nether 6.

You at in i trial convey a map amongst 2 dissimilar colors for buildings amongst heights from 0-5 together with buildings amongst heights 6-15.

Of class yous don't convey to terminate in that place either. You tin deport on duplicating your 'Building' layer creating dissimilar colors for buildings amongst dissimilar meridian ranges.

Here is my completed Building Heights Map. In my map I've deleted every layer apart from my styled edifice layers. If yous desire street names together with /or other map features in that place is no argue why yous should delete these layers from your map mode inward Mapbox Studio.


Now yous convey your finished map mode yous mightiness desire to plough over your map users around controls to filter the buildings shown on the map past times edifice height. This is really slowly to practice using Mapbox's setPaintProperty function. In this Change a layer's color amongst buttons map demo yous should endure able to come across how yous tin practice buttons to plough your dissimilar edifice meridian layers on together with off. You could practice buttons which switch the colors of your dissimilar layers betwixt the map background color together with the color yous assigned to each layer inward Mapbox Studio.

Alternatively yous could allow your users to alternative the color of each edifice meridian attain for themselves. I used Mapbox's 'Change a layer's color amongst buttons' demo map together with merely dropped inward my edifice meridian layers to practice a map where users tin alternative their ain colors.

Here is the completed Building Height Map inward JSFiddle. Just utilisation the drop-down carte du jour to alter the colors of the buildings past times the attain of edifice height.