README.md

Tangram Documentation

Tangram is a flexible browser-based mapping engine, designed for real-time rendering of 2D and 3D maps from geolocated vector data.

Getting Started

Here are a few demos of the library in action:

• basic 3D buildings map (repo)
• gui color-picker (repo)
• fancy shaders (repo)
• highways (repo)

Concept Overviews

These pages offer an introduction to the concepts behind Tangram:

• The Scene File
• Filters
• Lights
• Cameras
• Materials
• Shaders
• Styles

Technical Reference

These pages list the objects and parameters of the scene file, as well as their acceptable values.

• yaml
• scene
• sources
• cameras
• lights
• materials
• styles
• layers
• draw
• shaders