Ubilabs has published a dainty tutorial on how you lot tin role Mapbox GL's fill-extrusion belongings to exercise a 3d mapped visualization of geographical based data. Using the fill-extrusion belongings you lot tin extrude the tiptop of shapefiles on a Mapbox GL map depending on the tiptop of a value inwards your data. In this instance Ubilabs bring used this belongings to exercise a 3d map of Unemployment inwards Europe.
The Ubilabs tutorial shows you lot how you lot tin role 'fill-extrusion-height' to apply a tiptop to a polygon surface area based on information values. In the demo map European province shapefiles are extruded based on the unemployment charge per unit of measurement inwards each province inwards 2015. Each of the province shapefiles on the map are likewise colored based on the country's unemployment rate.
Another adept instance of a map using the fill-extrusion belongings is this San Francisco Lidar Map, which applies the extrude belongings to San Francisco tree in addition to edifice Lidar data. This Lidar information has been added to the map inwards Mapbox Studio from a GeoJSON file (presumably downloaded from the City of San Francisco). The upshot of using this Lidar information is that every bit good every bit visualizing buildings inwards 3d the map likewise extrudes other features, such every bit ships in addition to private trees.
